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Contact Information

Name Rahul Kumar Kundu
Professional Title Researcher & PhD Applicant
Email rahulkumarkundu.bd@gmail.com
Location 27/6 Dohakula, Bagherpara, Jashore, Khulna 7470

Professional Summary

ECE graduate specializing in deep learning and machine learning for healthcare, cybersecurity, and NLP. Actively seeking funded PhD positions for Fall 2027 to develop interpretable, practically deployable AI systems.

Education

  • 2020 - 2025

    Rajshahi, Bangladesh

    B.Sc.
    Rajshahi University of Engineering and Technology (RUET)
    Electrical and Computer Engineering
    • Ranked 7th out of 60 students in the department.
    • Last 60 Credits CGPA 3.91.
    • Thesis: ED-Net — a hybrid deep learning framework for polyp segmentation integrating EfficientNetB0 with Double U-Net, ASPP, and SE-block attention.

Interests

Research: Computer Vision, Multimodal Learning, Explainable AI, Large Language Models, Efficient Deep Learning

Publications

  • 2025
    ED-Net: A Hybrid Deep Learning Framework for Precise Polyp Segmentation Integrating EfficientNetB0 with Double U-Net Architecture and Atrous Spatial Pyramid Pooling with Test-Time Augmentation
    Biomedical Signal Processing and Control, Elsevier (Q1, IF: 4.9) — Under Review

    Achieved 97.13% accuracy, 92.26% Dice, and 91.08% IoU on Kvasir-SEG with TTA, outperforming recent SOTA models including CSwinDoubleU-Net and SwinSAM.

  • 2025
    Beyond the Leaf: Intelligent Lightweight Disease Detection in Tea Plants with Spatial Convolutional Neural Networks and Explainable AI
    2025 IEEE 7th International Conference on Sustainable Technologies For Industry 5.0 (STI), IEEE Xplore

    Lightweight CNN-based tea leaf disease detection with Grad-CAM explainability. Published in IEEE Xplore.

  • 2025
    Advancing Cybersecurity: A Study on Phishing Website Detection Using Machine Learning
    2025 8th International Conference on Computer and Information Technology (ICCIT), IEEE — Accepted

    Ensemble phishing detection system (XGBoost + LightGBM + CatBoost) with SHAP-based interpretability achieving 93.71% accuracy and 99% phishing recall.

Projects

  • MetaSeg — Metadata-Integrated Skin Lesion Segmentation

    A deep learning segmentation framework integrating patient demographic metadata through FiLM modulation for improved skin lesion segmentation across diverse patient populations.

    • FiLM-based metadata fusion into decoder layers.
    • Collaboration with Qatar University.
    • Targeting Computers in Biology and Medicine (Elsevier Q1).
  • Pragmatic-Aware Emotion Grounding (PAEG) for Bangla

    Investigates pragmatic feature loss in machine-translated Bangla emotion datasets. Proposes a framework combining lexicon retrieval and culturally-grounded augmentation to improve LLM emotion recognition for low-resource Bangla.

    • Three self-built datasets totaling approximately 26,000 samples.
    • Targeting Information Processing and Management (Elsevier Q1).
  • RUET-ASSR Official Website

    Led a team to build the official website for the Astronomy and Science Society of RUET using Next.js, Prisma, and MongoDB.

Skills

Deep Learning & Computer Vision (Advanced): PyTorch, TensorFlow, Keras, Medical Image Segmentation, Attention Mechanisms, Grad-CAM, ASPP
Machine Learning (Advanced): XGBoost, LightGBM, CatBoost, Scikit-learn, SHAP, Ensemble Methods
Natural Language Processing (Intermediate): Transformers, Emotion Recognition, Bangla NLP, Dataset Construction, LLMs
Programming (Advanced): Python, MATLAB, C, C++, Java, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP
Research Tools (Advanced): LaTeX, Git, GitHub, Kaggle, Google Colab, Jupyter, Mendeley

Academic Leadership and Service

Awards

  • 2024
    Technical Scholarship — University Grant Commission (UGC)
    University Grant Commission, Bangladesh

    Awarded for three consecutive years (2022, 2023, 2024) to top-ranked students based on B.Sc. annual results.

  • General Grade Scholarship — SSC and JSC Examinations
    Government of Bangladesh

    Awarded to nationwide highest-ranked students in Grade 10 (SSC) and Grade 8 (JSC) examinations.

Languages

Bengali : Native speaker
English : Fluent — IELTS Score: Overall 7.0 (Listening 7.5, Speaking 7.0, Reading 7.5, Writing 6.0)