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A Vision Transformer-Based Culturally Contextualized Bangla Image Captioning

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have advanced rapidly for high-resource languages such as English, yet Bengali remains severely underserved in multimodal AI research. This paper presents a culturally grounded hybrid Bengali image captioning system built upon BanglaVision45K, a dataset of 45,000 images paired with 225,000 human-verified Bengali captions
(five per image), assembled from four complementary sources:
Flickr30k (translated via Google Translate), BNature, Bornon,
and a custom collection of 4,000 manually annotated Bangladeshi
cultural images. One-third of the dataset (33.33%, approximately
15,000 images) represents native Bangladeshi cultural contexts.
The corpus contains 46,499 unique Bengali tokens with an
average caption length of 9.53 words. We propose a novel hybrid
architecture combining a frozen SigLIP2 Vision Transformer
encoder (layers 1–8 frozen, layers 9–12 trainable, patch size 32)
with a custom hybrid decoder integrating 4-layer LSTM, 4-layer
GRU, and BanglaGPT, connected through a Luong multiplicative
attention-based fusion mechanism. Through systematic bench-
marking of eight architectures, SigLIP2 + Att-GRU Ex achieves
the best ablation efficiency-performance trade-off (BLEU-1:
0.5360, METEOR: 0.3821, ROUGE-L: 0.4631, CIDEr: 0.2205).
Our proposed final hybrid model (SigLIP2 + LSTM + GRU +
BanglaGPT) trained on the full BanglaVision45K (90/5/5 split)
achieves state-of-the-art performance: BLEU-1: 0.8356, BLEU-
2: 0.7219, BLEU-3: 0.6119, BLEU-4: 0.5194, METEOR: 0.7004,
ROUGE-L: 0.7414, CIDEr: 0.5287, outperforming all baselines
by over 15% across all metrics.

Blockchain-Based Remittance System with Mobile Wallet Integration in Bangladesh

This research contributes a practical blockchain-based remittance framework, RemittancePay, designed specifically for the Bangladesh financial ecosystem by integrating Ethereum smart contracts with Mobile Financial Services. Unlike previous conceptual studies, this work develops and evaluates a functional prototype that supports user registration, identity verification, fund transfer, and withdrawal through secure smart contracts. The study also provides an experimental evaluation of transaction speed, API latency, throughput, and reliability, demonstrating a 100% transaction success rate and improved transparency compared to traditional remittance systems. Additionally, the proposed architecture creates a pathway for future integration with platforms such as bKash and Nagad while identifying key challenges related to scalability, regulation, and real-world deployment.

An Explainable AI-Powered Performance Weighted Ensemble Deep Learning System for Classifying MRI Brain Tumours

This work investigates the classification of brain tumors from MRI scans using a variety of deep learning architectures, such as Light U-Net, DenseNet121, Attention U-Net, and Custom Convolutional Neural Network (CNN). To increase accuracy, an ensemble-based classifier was created with a weighted soft voting technique. Explainable AI (XAI) approaches, like Gradient-weighted Class Activation Mapping (Grad-CAM), were used to improve clinical applicability by visualization. With an accuracy rate of 97.93\% in differentiating between gliomas, meningiomas, pituitary adenomas, and healthy patients, the ensemble model behaved better than single structures. Heatmaps produced by Grad-CAM showed important areas affecting model predictions, matching radiological characteristics and boosting confidence in the outcomes.

An Ethereum and IPFS Prototype for Bangladesh’s Universal Pension Scheme: Design, Cost Analysis, and Feasibility Limits

This research makes several significant contributions to blockchain-based pension management. First, it develops a smart contract architecture that reflects key features of the Bangladeshi pension system, including government and contributory schemes, tier-based contributions, minimum contribution periods, service-based gratuity, and relationship-based survivor benefits. Second, it proposes and evaluates a hybrid Ethereum–IPFS design and compares its public-chain trust model with the permissioned consortium blockchain used in earlier Bangladeshi research. The study also provides a detailed gas and fiat cost analysis, showing that Ethereum mainnet transaction costs may be approximately 2.9 times higher than the contribution being recorded, making direct mainnet deployment economically impractical. Security was assessed through Slither-based static analysis and manual review, with all 56 findings documented and prioritized. Two important vulnerabilities identified in the developed code were corrected and covered by regression tests. In addition, a 33-case automated test suite was created to validate the complete pension life cycle and access-control rules. Finally, the research examines the practical conflict between blockchain immutability and the legal requirement to correct errors in official pension records.

Pathways to Environmental Sustainability: How Green Ambidexterity and Green HRM Flexibility Shape the Leather Goods and Footwear Sector in Bangladesh

Theoretically, the study advances dynamic capabilities theory to the green human-resource domain by conceptualizing organizational green ambidexterity as a dynamic capability that is activated through people rather than in the abstract. Its main contribution is to identify green HRM flexibility as the human resource mechanism by which an ambidextrous green behavior is transmitted to environmental sustainability. The study adds to the literature contextually by combining green ambidexterity, HR flexibility and digital capability in the leather goods and footwear industry, a compliance-sensitive and export-dependent industry that is under-researched despite its environmental stakes in Bangladesh. Results of this study will bring immense connotations towards the employees, industry experts, environmental advocates, policy makers and managerial bodies to take decisions and implications towards attaining environmental sustainability.

Adaptive Extended Kalman Filtering with LSTM-Based Signal Quality Assessment for GNSS Precise Point Positioning

Multipath and non-line-of-sight (NLOS) signal reception remain major error sources in Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) Precise Point Positioning (PPP), particularly in urban environments where satellite signals are frequently reflected, diffracted, or obstructed. This paper presents a Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM)-based multipath detection and adaptive Extended Kalman Filter (EKF) weighting framework to improve PPP positioning accuracy. A scenario-based multi-constellation GNSS observation dataset is developed to model line-of-sight (LOS), multipath, and NLOS signal conditions under varying environmental scenarios. From each GNSS observation, six multipath-sensitive features are extracted: signal-to-noise ratio (SNR), elevation angle, code residual, ionospheric delay, delta code-minus-carrier (∆CMC), and code rate consistency (CRC). The extracted features are arranged into temporal sequences and processed by an LSTM network to estimate LOS, multipath, and NLOS probabilities. These probabilities are converted into a signal quality score and used to adaptively modify the observation covariance in a simplified PPP/EKF positioning framework. The proposed method is evaluated against a standard EKF using fixed measurement covariance. Simulation results show that the LSTM-adaptive EKF approach reduces horizontal RMSE from 4.211 m to 2.106 m and 3D RMSE from 8.362 m to 4.090 m, corresponding to improvements of 50.00\% and 51.09\%, respectively. The results indicate that temporal deep learning can provide useful observation-quality information for multipath-aware adaptive weighting in GNSS PPP.

A Silver-tongued Writer: A Deep Learning and NLP based Bengali Sentence Composer for Politeness Transfer

The key contributions of this research are as follows:
• We construct a labeled Bengali politeness classification dataset of 12,300 comments (three-annotator majority voting), derived from a larger public Bengali comment corpus.

• We conduct a systematic comparison of three deep learning architectures and six transformer variants for Bengali politeness classification, showing that BanglaBERT achieves the best accuracy, precision, recall, and F1-score (all 84%) among all models tested.

• We construct one of the first manually curated Bengali impolite lexicons (410 entries) and integrate it into a complete classify–substitute–paraphrase pipeline that converts impolite Bengali sentences into polite, meaning-preserving equivalents.

Performance Optimization of a 3 GHz Double Inset Fed Microstrip Patch Antenna for Advanced Wireless Systems

Wireless technologies are changing so fast that highly efficient, compact and economic radiating elements become a necessity. The demands of these technologies are ideally met by microstrip patch antennas (MPAs) for their planar structure and ease of integration. This paper presents the design and optimization of a double inset-feed technique for designing an MPA, which is applied for a modern wireless communication of resonant frequency 3 GHz. The FR-4 substrate is 1.3 mm thick and the conductive layers are made of copper. The parametric sweeps of the inset feed dimensions resulted in a remarkably low return loss of -31.605 dB and an almost perfect Voltage Standing Wave Ratio (VSWR) of 1.05 at the frequency of 3.061 GHz. Furthermore, it was also observed that there is a significant impedance bandwidth of 2.158 GHz at cut off frequency of 3.058 GHz. The comparative study indicates that the proposed design has better impedance matching and bandwidth compared to the existing work. Therefore it is an excellent design for 4G, 5G, Internet of Things (IoT) infrastructure and radar system.

A Rigorous Cross-Dataset Benchmark of Gradient Boosted Decision Trees for Network Intrusion Detection Under Bayesian Hyperparameter Optimisation

Presents a rigorous cross-dataset benchmark of Gradient Boosted Decision Tree models for network intrusion detection, demonstrating the effectiveness of Bayesian hyperparameter optimisation in improving detection performance, robustness, and generalisation across diverse intrusion datasets.

AIDE-Score: A NIST AI RMF-Aligned Multi-Dimensional Evaluation Framework for Enterprise AI-Based Intrusion Detection Systems

This research introduces AIDE-Score, a novel multi-dimensional evaluation framework for enterprise AI-based Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS) aligned with the NIST AI Risk Management Framework (AI RMF). The framework extends traditional performance metrics by incorporating explainability, robustness, fairness, security, and governance into a unified assessment methodology. AIDE-Score provides organizations with a practical and standardized approach for evaluating the trustworthiness and operational readiness of AI-driven IDS in enterprise environments.

An Explainable Meta-Ensemble Framework for Leakage-Free Active Tuberculosis Diagnosis in High-Dimensional Transcriptomics

Tuberculosis (TB) remains a leading infectious cause of death, and host blood transcriptomics offers a non-invasive route to detecting active disease. Applying machine learning here is hard because the genes measured vastly outnumber the patients (n≪p), inviting overfitting, and because many pipelines select biomarkers on the full dataset before splitting, leaking test information and inflating mean accuracy. We present a zero-leakage, explainable meta-ensemble for active-TB diagnosis in which every data-dependent step, standardization, ANOVA biomarker purification, and SMOTE balancing, is confined inside the training folds of a stratified 10-fold cross-validation, so the reported metrics reflect genuinely unseen patients. The classifier is a soft-voting ensemble pairing LightGBM, a sequential gradient booster, with an Extra-Trees classifier that shields against high-dimensional noise. Under this protocol, it reaches a stable 95.03% mean accuracy (ROC-AUC 0.9884). Game-theoretic SHAP analysis shows that the decision is driven by immunological markers, the HLA and MHC genes, rather than noise. The top 76 SHAP ranked genes were then analysed through pathway and Gene Ontology enrichment, protein–protein interaction (PPI) and hub gene analysis, transcription-factor and microRNA inference, and drug–protein mining, anchoring the panel to antigen processing and presentation, with HLA-A/B/C and TAPBP as central hubs. The study shows how a disciplined, interpretable pipeline turns high-dimensional TB transcriptomics into trustworthy predictions and biologically grounded biomarkers.

A Systematic framework for optimizing kidney stone detection in low data medical setting

n medical imaging, kidney stone detection is a
crucial task where precise and effective identification may have a
big impact on patient treatment. The lack of annotated medical
datasets and their expensive cost frequently restrict the use of
traditional supervised algorithms. In order to increase perfor-
mance and resilience in a low-data setting, this research explores
the combination of revolutionary YOLO detectors with self-
supervised learning (SSL) methods. Using a single-class kidney
stone dataset, we assess YOLOv10, YOLOv11, and YOLOv12 as
baseline models. With a test mAP@0.5 of 0.7170, we find that
YOLOv11 is the better baseline. Next, using the same dataset, we
pretrain the YOLOv11 backbone using three SSL frameworks:
SimCLR, BYOL and DINO. In particular, the test mAP@0.5
is improved to 0.7734 and mAP@0.5:0.95 to 0.3571 by DINO
pretraining, indicating improved localization accuracy. This study
also presents an end-to-end real-time vision transformer called
RF-DETR Nano. RF-DETR Nano achieves a validation mAP@0.5
of 0.7561 and a peak test mAP@0.5 of 0.8132 by avoiding
conventional Non-Maximum Suppression (NMS) and utilizing
receptive-field attention. This work demonstrates that SSL and
transformer-based detection heads offers a strong method for
enhancing object recognition in medical imaging, providing a
reliable solution in situations when there is a shortage of labeled
data.

A Phase-Wise Machine Learning-based Performance Evaluation in Flight Simulation Training

Flight training is the crucial part of aviation industry. This study advances the field of flight training by combining tolerance-based performance labelling with machine learning classification to classify the pilot student performance in different phases of flight. The main contribution of the study is that it allows the flight instructor to give meaningful feedback, tailor remedial instruction, and make better decisions about pilot student performance and progression. Moreover, this study promotes the application of machine learning models in aviation education and highlights their significance in resolving the difficulties related to pilot training.

A Synchronization-Aware Deep Reinforcement Learning Framework for QoE-Optimized Mulsemedia Streaming

Immersive smart environments and Metaverse-oriented applications increasingly rely on the synchronized delivery of heterogeneous multimedia streams, particularly video and haptic feedback, over bandwidth-varying networks. Existing Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP (DASH) and Adaptive Bitrate (ABR) algorithms are primarily designed for single-stream video and generally lack mechanisms to explicitly address cross-modal synchronization drift, which can significantly degrade temporal coherence despite high video quality. This paper investigates a joint video–haptic adaptation framework to maximize overall Quality of Experience (QoE) while preserving synchronization between modalities. The adaptation problem is formulated as a Markov Decision Process (MDP) and optimized using a Proximal Policy Optimization (PPO)-based reinforcement learning policy that selects paired video and haptic representations for each streaming segment. A unified reward function is designed to maximize bitrate utility while penalizing rebuffering events, quality fluctuations, and synchronization drift. Performance is evaluated through trace-driven DASH simulations using real-world network throughput traces and compared with established baseline algorithms, including BOLA and Model Predictive Control (MPC). Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed approach effectively balances visual quality and temporal coherence, achieving an average video bitrate of approximately 2054 kbps while reducing synchronization drift to 22.57 ms, outperforming conventional video-centric adaptation strategies. These findings highlight the importance of drift-aware adaptive streaming and demonstrate the potential of reinforcement learning for delivering synchronized multisensory experiences in future immersive communication systems.

Machine Learning–Driven Single-Cell RNA-Seq Analysis for Cell Classification, Feature Discovery, and Functional Annotation in Glioblastoma

Abstract—In computational biology, machine learning is now
essential to the analysis of massive transcriptome datasets. Singlecell RNA sequencing (scRNA-Seq) can be used to study glioblastoma multiforme (GBM), the most prevalent and deadly adult
brain tumour, cell by cell. We developed a repeatable, leakagecontrolled machine learning workflow using the GSE84465
dataset (3,589 cells) to categorise each cell according to its surgical origin (tumour core vs. infiltrating periphery) and determine
the genes that differentiate the two compartments.XGBoost, Logistic Regression, Random Forest, AdaBoost, SVM, LightGBM,
Extra Trees, a Neural Network, and a Stacking Ensemble were
the nine classifiers that were assessed. XGBoost was the most
stable under stratified five-fold cross-validation (0.949 ± 0.007),
with held-out accuracy ranging from 0.92 to 0.95 (ROC-AUC
up to 0.993). Immune and microenvironmental factors (e.g.,
CCL3, MIF, ANXA1/ANXA2, HLA-B, VIM) were enriched in
the top 100 XGBoost-ranked genes. Twenty enriched pathways,
twenty hub genes, and fifteen potential medications were obtained
through downstream pathway/GO enrichment, PPI and hub-gene
analysis, TF/miRNA inference, and drug-protein mining. Overall,
the study demonstrates how interpretable machine learning can
transform GBM scRNA-Seq data into prioritised therapeutic
targets and biologically grounded biomarkers.

Four microRNAs as Prognostic Biomarkers for Overall Survival in Uterine Carcinosarcoma

Abstract—Uterine carcinosarcoma (UCS) is a rare, biphasic,
and highly aggressive gynecologic malignancy with disproportionately poor prognosis. Although microRNAs (miRNAs) regulate
tumorigenesis across many cancers, their prognostic role in
UCS remains largely undefined, owing to the rarity of the
disease and the scarcity of matched expression-plus-survival
cohorts. We sought to derive and internally validate an miRNAbased prognostic signature for overall survival in UCS using
public data. miRNA and mRNA expression and clinical data
for 55 UCS patients (34 deaths, 62%) were obtained from The
Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA). As weighted correlation network
analysis identified no survival-associated module, we adopted a
direct approach: univariate Cox regression screened survivalassociated miRNAs, and a signature was built by LASSO Cox
regression with the number of miRNAs optimized by repeated
cross-validation. A four-miRNA signature (hsa-miR-1249, hsamiR-1287, hsa-miR-30d, hsa-miR-330) was identified. High-risk
patients had significantly shorter overall survival than low-risk
patients (log-rank P = 6.67 × 10−5). Time-dependent AUCs
were 0.79, 0.74, and 0.76 at 1, 2, and 3 years; repeated 70/30
cross-validation gave a more conservative mean test AUC of 0.69
(95% range 0.41–0.84). The risk score remained an independent
prognostic factor after adjustment for age and stage (hazard ratio
= 2.72, P = 1.67×10−6). Enrichment of correlated target genes
highlighted hypoxia and peptide-hormone responses. This compact signature provides moderate, independent prognostic value
for UCS and may serve as a hypothesis-generating biomarker;
given the small single-cohort sample, external and experimental
validation are required.

Heterogeneous Relation-Aware Attention Improves Cold-Start miRNA–Disease Association Prediction

Abstract—Predicting associations between microRNAs (miRNAs) and diseases helps prioritise candidates for experimental
study. Most graph-learning approaches are evaluated solely
in the transductive context, where every miRNA already has
known associations. The tougher and more practically relevant cold-start setting, predicting associations for miRNAs with
no prior relationships, is rarely investigated. We study how
architectural complexity behaves across both settings on the
HMDD benchmark. We propose HetSeqFormer, a spectral graph
Transformer with heterogeneous relation-aware attention over
an association graph augmented with sequence-based miRNA–
miRNA and disease–disease similarity networks, and a learned
sequence branch. Under a leakage-free protocol we find that
the value of heterogeneity is strongly setting-dependent. In
the transductive setting it does not help: inductive baselines
(GraphSAGE, a graph Transformer) lead and a streamlined
variant of our model only matches DARSFormer. In the coldstart setting the ranking inverts: HetSeqFormer ranks first and
significantly outperforms six of seven baselines (all but GCN,
which it ties on AUC and leads on F1, 0.841 vs. 0.840), while
the transductive leaders GraphSAGE and the graph Transformer
fall to last. Ablations confirm that relation-aware attention—not
the sequence branch—drives the cold-start gain, by propagating
information through the similarity networks to association-free
miRNAs. These results identify when heterogeneity helps in
miRNA–disease prediction and highlight cold-start as the setting
where it matters.

Predecting Sustainable Boycott Intentions through Digital Eco-Activism:SEM & Machine Learning Approach

The present work develops a predictive empirical technique for mapping the behavioral and system architecture of digital marketplace resistance against tech providers. Based on the structural framework of the Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB) and Institutional Anomie Theory, the proposed paradigm models the spread of corporate product-sustainability failures (PSF) – from environmental misconduct to ethical exploitation and economic green washing – as demand-side consumer shocks among hyper-connected Gen Z cohorts. The objective of this study is to provide a two-step analytical approach to unveil the determinants of durable boycott intentions, forecast consumers’ boycott decisions correctly, and thus bridge the conventional intention–behavior gap. This framework combines a variance-based Structural Equation Modelling (SEM) approach to disentangle complex internal mediating mechanisms (value misalignment and eco-ethical outrage) and upper boundary moderation filters (fractured trust filters) with downstream machine learning classification models (SVM, Random Forest) to predict definitive binary anti-consumption choices. The Paper allows multi-product high-tech firms to evaluate market risks and demonstrate that long-term brand equity depends on transparency, sustainable product lifecycles, and real corporate responsibility. This study promotes SDGs 12, 16 and 9 by supporting responsible consumerism, ethical corporate governance and predictive sustainability analytics via an integrated SEM-machine learning framework.

A Multi-View Sequence–Ensemble Fusion Model for Predicting Cancer-Associated microRNA–Gene Interactions

Abstract—microRNAs (miRNAs) are short non-coding RNAs
that post-transcriptionally regulate target genes and are strongly
implicated in oncogenesis. Determining whether a given miRNA–
gene interaction operates in a cancer or a non-cancer disease
context is valuable for prioritising candidates in functional
studies, yet it is non-trivial because the same miRNA frequently
participates in both settings. We study a curated dataset of
3,666 miRNA-gene-disease associations (2,004 cancer; 1,662 noncancer) and first show that the disease-name field is a definitional
label proxy that trivialises the task (accuracy 99.8%, ROC-AUC
1.000) without conferring any biological insight. We therefore
reformulate the problem as predicting cancer association from
molecular features only: the miRNA identity, its mature nucleotide
sequence, and the target gene. We propose mSEF (Multiview Sequence–Ensemble Fusion), which couples (i) a leakageaware task formulation, (ii) a multi-view feature representation
combining a k-mer sequence spectrum, engineered nucleotidecomposition descriptors, miRNA-family attributes, and crossfitted target encodings of high-cardinality categoricals, with (iii)
a weighted heterogeneous soft-voting ensemble of extremely randomised trees, a random forest, and histogram gradient boosting.
Under stratified 5-fold cross-validation, mSEF attains 90.6%
accuracy, 0.915 F1, 0.967 ROC-AUC, and 0.811 Matthews correlation coefficient (MCC), outperforming nine standard baselines,
and reaches 91.0% accuracy with 0.969 ROC-AUC on a held-out
test set. Under a stricter grouped protocol that withholds entire
miRNAs or genes, accuracy remains 80–83% (ROC-AUC 0.87–
0.92), quantifying generalization to unseen molecules. Ablation
shows that all three feature views contribute and that their fusion
is necessary for the best result. The study illustrates how careful
leakage control turns an apparently trivial classification problem
into a meaningful, sequence-driven prediction task.

Comparative Analysis of LASSO and RFE for ML-Based Hypertension Risk Prediction Framework

Hypertension constitutes a major worldwide health concern that can result in cardiovascular disease, cerebrovascular accidents, kidney failure, and early death. Hypertension represents a significant global health issue that frequently occurs asymptomatically. This increases the likelihood of patients experiencing significant cardiovascular problems. Anticipatory forecasting of events is essential for prompt reaction and effective management. This study presents a hybrid framework designed for predicting hypertension, utilising the High-Fidelity Synthetic Dataset for Hypertension Prediction. This work implements and compares two feature selection methods Least Absolute Shrinkage and Selection Operator (LASSO) and Recursive Feature Elimination (RFE), for optimized feature selection which leads to better forecast of hypertension. The selected features are then fed into five different machine learning models XGBoost, SVM, Random Forest, MLP and CatBoost for training and testing and analysis purpose. An extensive analysis is done on both the frameworks LASOO + ML models and RFE + ML models including exploratory data analysis, computation of various standard matrices, calibration analysis and explainable AI analysis. All these results indicate that LASOO + XGB model outperform every other integrated model by achieving 98.56% accuracy. The best performance model LASOO + XGB is also compared with the other similar work, where it also outperforms. From all the analysis done we can conclude that the proposed model aims to enhance and helps the healthcare providers in hypertension risk prediction.

Sustainable Urban Transportation: A Triple Bottom Line Assessment of the Dhaka Metro Rail System

The rapid urbanization and increasing demand for transport in Bangladesh have exacerbated issues of traffic congestion, environmental degradation, and sustainable urban mobility. Dhaka Metro Rail, the country’s first mass rapid transit system, is an essential initiative in overcoming such challenges and encouraging sustainable travel. However, earlier studies have largely focused on individual sustainability criteria and have used quantitative techniques, which limits a comprehensive knowledge of metro rail sustainability. Therefore, the objective of this study is to explore the contribution of metro rail services to the sustainability of Bangladesh by using the Triple Bottom Line (TBL) paradigm which incorporates environmental, economic and social aspects. A mixed methods study design might be utilized to achieve this purpose. Qualitative data will be collected through in-depth interviews with key stakeholders using purposive sampling and analyzed using content analysis. Quantitative data will be obtained using a structured questionnaire survey of metro train users using convenience sampling and analyzed using Structural Equation Modelling (SEM). Through a sustainability assessment of the Dhaka Metro Rail System, this study contributes to SDG 11 (Sustainable Cities and Communities), SDG 9 (Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure), SDG 13 (Climate Action) and SDG 8 (Decent Work and Economic Growth). The study is expected to give a complete assessment of metro rail sustainability, contribute to the literature on sustainable transportation, and provide practical insights to policymakers and transport authorities in developing sustainable urban transportation policies in Bangladesh.

Optimized EfficientNetB5 Framework for Skin Cancer Classification

The complex assortment of disorders in the human body known as cancer presents numerous difficulties for modern-day medicine. Its molecular mechanisms are so well understood for research advancements in many sectors. Immunotherapies and targeted therapeutics are quite potential for individualized treatments. To enhance early-stage detection and more effective treatments, research in healthcare must continue. In order to evaluate medical imaging data and precisely identify minor patterns indicative of nine types of skin cancer, this research proposes a conceptual framework for diagnosing many skin cancer lesions by utilizing the capabilities of CNN (i.e., Convolutional Neural Networks).Through the usage of the Adam optimizer, the EfficientNetB5 network designs and integrates various adaptive learning rates, allowing it to dynamically adapt and maximizes performance during training. The proposed model’s multi-layered architecture allows it to recognize minute characteristics at microscopic and macroscopic levels, ensuring a comprehension of possible existing cancers. For three hidden layers and output channels of 32, 54, and 128 respectively, the proposed model has the potential to greatly increase diagnosis accuracy and enable rapid treatments. With accuracy of 92.68% for 9 different forms of skin cancer in the dataset, the subsequent modelling assurances class balancing and augmentation using XGBoost classifiers, as it will train the images with better feature handling.

Comparative Evaluation of AI-Generated Text Detection Approaches

this study presents a comparative evaluation of three approaches for AI-generated text detection. Experimental results demonstrate that the RoBERTa model significantly outperforms all other models. The study concludes that deep contextual embeddings offer the most reliable solution for modern AI-text detection, while classical approaches remain effective for computationally constrained environments.

Decentralizing Dengue Diagnostics: Federated Knowledge Distillation Across Heterogeneous Modalities via Edge Transpilation

The escalating severity of Dengue fever outbreaks
in Bangladesh necessitates rapid, data-driven clinical diagnostic
tools. While recent machine learning architectures demonstrate
high predictive accuracy using clinical and meteorological data,
their reliance on centralized cloud infrastructure and heavy
Python backends introduces severe data privacy vulnerabilities and renders them impractical for low-bandwidth, rural
healthcare centers. This paper proposes a decentralized, privacypreserving mobile diagnostic framework utilizing Heterogeneous
Federated Transfer Learning (HFTL). To the best of our knowledge, this is the first federated framework for dengue detection to collaboratively synthesize three distinct data modalities:
haematological parameters, subjective symptomatic profiles, and
environmental indicators. Furthermore, we introduce a novel
edge-transpilation pipeline that mathematically converts trained
balanced Random Forest classifiers directly into zero-dependency,
native Dart code. This approach completely decouples diagnostic
inference from the cloud, enabling zero-latency, 100% offline
execution directly on mobile edge devices. Experimental evaluations confirm exceptional diagnostic performance, achieving
96.0% accuracy on structural symptom vectors and 76.4% on
haematological markers. By ensuring that sensitive patient health
data never leaves the local client device, this framework bridges
the critical gap between robust computational epidemiology
and secure, deployable digital health infrastructure in resourceconstrained environments.

Federated Deep Learning for Bidirectional English and American Sign Language Translation Across Distributed Deaf Communities

Communication barriers between Deaf and hearing individuals continue to limit accessibility across educational, healthcare, workplace, and community settings. Existing Artificial Intelligence (AI)-based translation systems often focus on isolated sign recognition and rely on centralized datasets with limited signer diversity. This paper presents a Federated Deep Learning (FDL) framework for bidirectional translation between spoken English and American Sign Language (ASL). The proposed system integrates computer vision, transformerbased neural machine translation, and federated learning to enable privacy-preserving collaborative model training across multiple institutions while accommodating regional and signerspecific ASL variations. The framework was evaluated using data collected from five collaborating institutions involving 412 participants and more than 68,000 annotated ASL video samples. Experimental results achieved translation accuracies of 91.3% for ASL-to-English and 88.7% for English-to-ASL translation. Compared with a centralized transformer baseline, the proposed federated model improved BLEU scores by 7.8% while enhancing generalization across signing communities. User evaluations involving Deaf educators and community members produced a System Usability Scale score of 86.4, indicating excellent usability. These findings demonstrate the potential of federated learning to support scalable, privacy-preserving ASL translation systems and improve accessibility technologies for Deaf communities.

Simulating Edge AI Interventions: An HCI Proof-of-Concept for Dynamic AR-HUD Decluttering Based on Physiological Monitoring

Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) face competing demands among environmental perception, physiological monitoring, and cognitive overload. This paper proposes a sequential Edge AI software architecture capable of executing Traffic Sign Detection and Recognition (TSDR) alongside incabin biometric analysis. Deploying these models on constrained hardware introduces latency bottlenecks and resource contention. To evaluate the human-computer interaction (HCI) requirements of this system, we conducted a Hardware-in-the-Loop simulation using a Wizard of Oz methodology. Six participants navigated complex routes using a simulated Augmented Reality Head-Up Display (AR-HUD) and optical heart rate monitors. Empirical data indicate that static, data-dense interfaces induce cognitive saturation and navigational panic. By dynamically decluttering the AR-HUD during high-stress events, the system managed driver arousal and mitigated visual masking. These findings detail a closed-loop system design that balances Edge AI scheduling limitations with cognitive ergonomics.

NeuroCrypt: A Privacy-Preserving Federated Learning Framework for Secure Brain–Computer Interface Data Sharing

NeuroCrypt is a privacy-preserving federated learning framework for EEG-based Brain-Computer Interfaces. It combines on-device training, continuous Zero-Trust client authentication, and a lightweight tamper-evident audit ledger, enabling collaborative learning without sharing raw EEG data.

A Systematic Review of Technical Accuracy versus Social Utility in Assistive Technologies

This systematic review synthesizes evidence from 29 peer-reviewed studies published between 2008 and 2025 to evaluate the real-world effectiveness of assistive technologies for the Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing (DHH) community. Although recent advances in artificial intelligence, computer vision, and wearable sensing have produced recognition accuracies exceeding 90% under controlled laboratory conditions, substantial challenges remain in practical deployment. Using a tripartite effectiveness framework, the review found that only one technology was Currently Effective for real-world use, whereas 25 studies were classified as Effective with Further Development because of their dependence on controlled environments. The analysis also identified a significant communication imbalance: most technologies support one-way translation, while only three studies proposed truly bidirectional systems. Furthermore, limited participation of native Deaf signers in the design process often reduced usability and cultural acceptance. These findings highlight the need for user-centered, participatory design, long-term real-world evaluation, and bidirectional communication technologies to achieve meaningful accessibility and social inclusion.

An Explainable Deep Ensemble Framework for Bone Fracture Detection & Segmentation from X-ray Images with a Web-Based Interface

Key Contribution:
● Proposed a two-stage deep learning
approach for automatic detection and
segmentation of bone fractures based on
X-ray images.
● Combined and processed two Kaggle
X-ray datasets in order to get a balanced
dataset for bone fractures detection [7].
● Created a personalized segmented
dataset by doing manual annotation and
masks for fracture localization.
● Preprocessed and augmented the dataset
to increase the quality and
generalization of the deep learning
model [8].
● Used several deep learning models
(ResNet50, EfficientNetB3,
MobileNetV3, Xception, InceptionV3,
and DenseNet121) for detecting bone
fractures.
Designed a
Multi_Bone_Hybrid_DetModel based
on several most accurate detection
models to get better detection results.
● Used several U-Net-like segmentation
models and created a
Multi_Bone_Hybrid_SegModel to get
better fracture localization results.
● Added Grad-CAM for both detection
and segmentation models to improve
explainability and interpretation of the
model [9].
● Created a web-based application for
fracture detection, segmentation, and
visualization of Grad-CAM

Lip Reading from Images Using a Dual-Input 3D Convolutional Neural Network (DI-3DCNN)

The contribution of research in lip reading using deep
learning model named modified dual-input 3D Convolutional
Neural Network (3DCNN) is fundamentally transforming
communication accessibility for individuals with hearing
impairments. Additionally, we explore some models like as
3D Convolutional Neural Network (3D-CNN), 2D
Convolutional Neural Network with GRU, 2D Convolution
Neural Network with LSTM (2DCNN with LSTM) on our
dataset and evaluate the performance and finally compare the
performances with our proposed system

Device Optimization and Defect Analysis of Sr3BiCl3-Based Perovskite Solar Cells by SCAPS-1D

In this study, we conduct a thorough numerical analysis to examine the photovoltaic performance of Sr3BiCl3-based perovskite solar cells (PSCs) using the SCAPS-1D simulator. The study investigates the Ag/FTO/TiO2/Sr3BiCl3/MoO3/Ni device configuration, with the objective of assessing the impact of bulk and interface defect states on total device performance. The simulated device achieves a power conversion efficiency (PCE) of 27.56% when the Sr3BiCl3 absorber layer has a thickness of 1000 nm, a band gap of 1.541 eV, a defect density of 1014 cm-3, and a doping concentration of 1018 cm-3.

Radiological Metadata and Deep Image Feature Analysis for Breast Cancer Classification: An Explainable Multimodal Evaluation on CBIS-DDSM

Controlled multimodal ablation study

The study compares image only, clinical metadata only, and fusion models on the same CBIS DDSM data split. This setup measures the diagnostic value of each modality under equal conditions. The authors identify this type of controlled comparison as limited in earlier research.

Clinical metadata value

Radiologist defined features produce the highest performance. Mass shape, margin, assessment score, and subtlety reach a ROC AUC of 0.8737. This result exceeds both the image model and the fusion models. The finding shows clinical descriptors contribute more than deep image features in this dataset.

Feature dimension and fusion performance

The study evaluates image feature vectors with 64 and 1,280 dimensions. The larger feature vector reduces fusion performance because the model overfits the limited dataset. This result offers a practical lesson for multimodal medical AI projects with small datasets.

Grad CAM explainability

Grad CAM visualizations show the EfficientNet B0 model focuses on relevant lesion areas instead of background regions. These results support model interpretation and clinical confidence, even though the image only model achieves lower diagnostic performance.

Transparent negative finding

Simple feature concatenation fails to outperform the metadata only model. This negative result provides useful evidence for future research. Researchers should test attention based, gated, or other advanced fusion methods instead of assuming multimodal fusion will improve performance.

EE-MpoxLiteNet: An Edge-Enhanced Lightweight and Explainable Deep Learning Framework for Monkeypox Skin Lesion Screening

Deep learning-based Monkeypox (Mpox) skin lesion
screening offers a rapid and low-cost decision-support solution
for resource-constrained healthcare settings. However, existing
approaches often depend on limited datasets, computationally
intensive architectures, and augmentation procedures that may
introduce data leakage. This paper proposes EE-MpoxLiteNet,
a lightweight, edge-enhanced, and explainable framework for
Mpox skin lesion classification. A leakage-safe protocol first
partitions the original images into training, validation, and
test subsets before augmentation. The proposed Edge-Aware
Lesion Enhancement Module combines contrast-limited adap-
tive histogram equalization, bilateral filtering, and Sobel-based
structural information to improve lesion contrast and boundary
representation. A dual-stream architecture then captures com-
plementary appearance-based semantic and edge-guided mor-
phological features. These representations are refined through
a Multi-Scale Lesion Representation Block and a Cross-Branch
Attention Fusion Module before classification. Experiments on
the Monkeypox Skin Lesion Dataset show that EE-MpoxLiteNet
achieves 97.8% accuracy, a 97.8% F1-score, and a 99.4% ROC-
AUC, outperforming standard CNN baselines and heavier hybrid
models. The network contains 6.85 million parameters and
requires only 0.86 GFLOPs, demonstrating a favorable accuracy–
efficiency trade-off. Grad-CAM visualizations further show that
predictions are primarily based on lesion-relevant regions. These
findings support the potential of EE-MpoxLiteNet for efficient
and explainable AI-assisted Mpox screening.

Prevalence of Microplastics and Heavy Metals in Raw Milk from Municipal Waste-Fed Dairy Cow

Master’s Research

Crime Prediction Using Improved Hybrid Models Machine Learning Algorithm

Rising crime rates present a significant challenge to public safety and necessitate the development of reliable crime prediction models. This study investigates the application of machine learning techniques to real-world crime data for predicting future crime trends. Five regression models—Linear Regression, Gradient Boosting Regressor, Random Forest Regressor, Extra-Trees Regressor, and XGBRegressor—are evaluated and compared. To further improve predictive performance, a hybrid model is proposed by integrating the Extra-Trees Regressor and XGBRegressor through a voting-based ensemble strategy. Experimental findings show that the proposed hybrid model performs better than the individual models on the given dataset. The results demonstrate the potential of ensemblebased regression approaches for improving crime prediction and supporting data-driven decision-making in crime prevention.

Intelligent IoT-Driven Health Monitoring System for Real-Time Remote Patient Care and Early Disease Detection

The rise of chronic diseases and an aging population underscore the need for continuous and accessible healthcare monitoring, especially in remote areas. Traditional healthcare systems often face challenges such as lengthy diagnoses, inadequate treatment, and rising costs. To address these issues, this study presents an Internet of Things (IoT)-based real-time health monitoring system designed for proactive healthcare. We utilized various sensors to track essential health metrics—body temperature, heart rate, and oxygen saturation—transmitting the data to cloud platforms like Ubidots for analysis and visualization. Additionally, we developed a machine learning model to classify and predict heart disease using a separate dataset, enhancing diagnostic capabilities. The Blynk application facilitates remote access to this data, improving patient engagement and system accessibility. Furthermore, our system incorporates video surveillance through Ivideon to bolster telemedicine services, enabling immediate alerts for health abnormalities and allowing prompt interventions. This innovative approach significantly impacts the IoT and healthcare sectors, promoting early detection of health issues, encouraging proactive management, and reducing healthcare costs.

Deep Reinforcement Learning for Adaptive Bitrate Control in Rural Telemedicine Networks

In rural Bangladesh, weather-induced bandwidth volatility, monsoon induced fading, and peak hour congestion are all huge Quality-of-Service (QoS) issues with telemedicine video streaming over LTE networks. Static adaptive bitrate (ABR) heuristics fail under these non-stationary conditions, causing rebuffering events that disrupt clinical consultations. This paper proposes a deep reinforcement learning (DRL) framework for ABR control tailored to Bangladesh LTE, formulating the problem as a Markov Decision Process (MDP) with a sevendimensional state and a clinically calibrated Pensieve reward that heavily penalises rebuffering. A Proximal Policy Optimization (PPO) agent is trained on a 200-trace Gilbert-Elliott Markov channel dataset anchored to BTRC 2024 field measurements across five weather conditions and evaluated against DQN and four classical baselines. PPO achieves a mean per-step reward of +0.604 +/- 0.119, outperforming the best classical baseline by 37.3% and MPC-Heuristic by 61.5% (Wilcoxon p < 0.001, Cohen’s d = 1.10), while maintaining a stall ratio of 0.36%, well below the 2% clinical target, with consistent positive rewards across all weather conditions including adversarial Rain/Monsoon and Peak Hours scenarios where competing agents fail.

DFT Study on Y- and Ga-Doped Cs₃ScI₆: Structural, Electronic, and Optical Properties for Optoelectronic Applications

In this work, a complete density functional theory investigation of pristine, Y-doped, and Ga-doped Cs₃ScI₆ is presented, showing that dopant engineering effectively manipulates the band gap, electronic structure, and optical absorption of this compound. The enhanced absorption of visible light and electronic properties show that Y and Ga-doped Cs₃ScI₆ can be considered as promising lead-free perovskite materials for solar cell applications.

ComML: A Code Comments Dataset for AI/ML Systems

Code comments play a critical role in ensuring
the comprehensibility, maintainability, and collaborative devel-
opment of software systems. However, in Artificial Intelligence
and Machine Learning (AI/ML) projects, where experimentation,
rapid prototyping, and iterative model development are cen-
tral, commenting practices are often inconsistent or insufficient.
To support systematic research on this issue, we introduce
ComML, a real-world dataset for analyzing code comments in
AI/ML systems. ComML comprises 50 AI/ML repositories written
in Python, having 16,110 Python files, 3,314 classes, 111,950
functions, 146,264 code blocks, 5,662,809 lines of source code,
and 449,962 lines of comments. The dataset was constructed
by cloning repositories from GitHub and extracting structured
code blocks using Python’s Abstract Syntax Tree parser. Each
code block was automatically classified into one of nine AI/ML
workflow stages. Then we checked the frequency and quality
of the comments inside the code. Along with raw code and
comments, ComML provides computed metrics for comment
density, readability, and consistency. Our initial analysis reveals
notable documentation gaps, with the Model Evaluation Stage
missing comments in 74.09% of cases. This dataset enables
researchers to study commenting behavior across AI/ML de-
velopment phases and supports the design of automated tools
for improving comment quality and documentation practices in
machine learning software.

Advancements in Fast and Wireless Electric Vehicle Charging: Performance Trade-Offs, System Challenges, and Future Directions

Inductive charging and DC charging are increasingly becoming the preferred methods of charging an electric vehicle, with the latter being significantly quicker than the former. The type of charging impacts the degradation of batteries, battery efficiency, power grid carbon emissions, and overall environmental sustainability as part of the battery life. This study is based on several recent research papers from the year 2021 to 2026 on lithium ion, lead acid, lithium polymer and silicon-carbon batteries. Rapid charging causes aging of the battery due to lithium plating, solid electrolyte interphase (SEI) growth, and higher internal resistance especially when the SoC is above 80% or at temperatures below 15℃. When the coils are misaligned, the efficiency loss can range from 5-15% and there can be localized thermal hotspots. However, the constant low power charging can help mitigate cycle aging. The charging conditions also impact on grid emissions. Fast charging can account for as much as triple the CO₂ emitted per kWh as off-peak or solar-coordinated charging in coal-heavy power systems. The charging process can have an impact on the life of the battery and lead to the need for battery replacement, which can add to the impacts of the battery manufacturing process, typically overlooked in a conventional LCA. A causal relationship between charging methods and thermal and electrochemical stresses, battery degradation, efficiency losses, grid level effects, and battery life. Solutions are described as being: – temperature responsive fast charging, – misalignment tolerant wireless charging, – demand responsive charging scheduling. To enable sustainable electric mobility, further research based on real-world charging data, long-term wireless-aging research, and resulting lifecycle assessments is needed.

AI-Driven Renewable Energy Forecasting and Smart Grid Optimization for Energy Transition in Bangladesh

This study is among the first to build and evaluate an end-to-end AI-driven renewable energy forecasting + smart grid optimization framework specifically for Bangladesh’s energy context — a low-resource setting largely absent from the existing ML forecasting literature (which is dominated by developed-country studies).

Key contributions:

Comparative model evaluation — benchmarks five forecasting approaches (Random Forest, ANN, SVR, Linear Regression, ARIMA) on a 5-year, 43,800-instance dataset combining NASA POWER, BMD, and BPDB data; Random Forest wins with 92.4% accuracy, a 57% MAE improvement over the ARIMA baseline.
Localized feature engineering pipeline — tailored to Bangladesh’s meteorological and grid conditions (cyclical time encodings, rolling lag features).
Quantified smart grid gains — demonstrates concrete operational impact when AI forecasting drives dispatch: +31% grid stability, −68% renewable curtailment, −36% CO₂ intensity, forecast horizon extended from 1 to 24 hours.
Practical deployment roadmap — translates the technical results into a policy-relevant argument (e.g., ~4.2M tonnes CO₂ avoided/year at scale), directly tied to Bangladesh’s 2041 Mujib Climate Prosperity Plan target of 40% renewables.

The core novelty is less “a new algorithm” and more rigorous, quantitative evidence — in an underexplored geographic context — that pairing AI forecasting with grid optimization unlocks large, measurable gains, giving policymakers and grid operators a concrete case for investing in digital infrastructure alongside physical renewable capacity.

A Domain-Invariant Multi-Scale Graph Temporal Learning for Cross-Environment Wi-Fi Deauthentication Detection

The study introduces GraphBurst-InvarNet, a leakage-resistant framework that combines dual-scale temporal learning, dynamic AP–client graph modelling, adaptive structural gating, and domain-adversarial training using hybrid dataset. Its main contribution is improved cross-environment detection of sparse-to-flood Wi-Fi deauthentication attacks, achieving 97.85% external Macro-F1 with only 0.38% false positives on an unseen dataset.

Dynamic Wireless EV Charging Under Misalignment: A Study of Mitigation Technologies, Key Challenges, and Future Prospects

The dynamic wireless power transfer (DWPT) system is a technology that allows an EV to take in electrical energy while it is moving on energized sections of the roadway. This can minimize charging time interruptions and increase the driving range for vehicles, as well as enable high-use vehicle fleets to have a smaller traction battery. The operation of a DWPT system is, however, very sensitive to the relative position of the roadway transmitter and the receiver on the vehicle. Mutual inductance and reflected impedance may be changed by lateral displacement, movement of the transmitter segments, changes in ground clearance and angular misalignment. The changes can lead to resonance detuning, power fluctuation, higher stress on the power converter, as well as different leakage magnetic fields. This paper summarizes the progress in misalignment-tolerant DWPT systems in recent years, focusing on magnetic coupler structures, compensation networks, control techniques and standardization. It is possible to increase the coupling area using DD-type and quadrature couplers, and to enhance the robustness against the variations of the coupling, using a compensation network based on the LCC. Phase-shift control, predictive control and magnetic-field-shaping methods can be used to further improve operational stability. Past research indicates that the best systems utilize a combination of coupling-aware control and passive compensation and active regulation, not just one of the two mitigation strategies. The latest standards cover safety and interoperability of dynamic charging systems; SAE J2954 provides a reference for stationary wireless charging. There are still some key research needs to be addressed for cross-vendor dynamic testing, power quality during segment changes, foreign object detection, roadway durability, and bi-directional power transmission.

Design and Implementation of a Resilient Multi-Branch WAN for Sonali Bank PLC: EIGRP Routing, Dual-ISP Redundancy, and Hierarchical IP Addressing

Modern banking operations depend on a wide-area network (WAN) that is simultaneously highly available, secure, and capable of scaling to thousands of geographically dispersed branches. This paper presents the design and packet-level implementation of a resilient enterprise WAN interconnecting a Head Office (HO), a primary Data Center (DC), a Near/Disaster-recovery Data Center (NDC), and re-
mote branches through a mesh of five Internet Service Provider (ISP) edge routers. The control plane uses the Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing Protocol (EIGRP, AS 100) for fast con-vergence and unequal-cost load balancing over redundant /30
links, and every site is dual-homed to two independent ISP
routers to eliminate single points of failure. Security is enforced at each data-center edge with Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) firewalls using asymmetric security levels and stateful inspection. A hierarchical IPv4 plan of contiguous /21 blocks from 10.0.0.0/8 yields more than 1,230 branch subnets of 2,046 usable hosts each while preserving route summarization. Emulation in Cisco Packet Tracer confirms full reachability, sub-second recon-vergence after link failure, and correct fire- wall policy enforcement, demonstrating that the architecture meets the availability, segmentation, and scalability requirements of a national-scale banking network.

Picture Fuzzy Aggregating Operators in Soft Computing

Several picture fuzzy aggregating operators have been developed to find out the best outcome of multi-attribute decision making problem (MADM) with the light of soft computing.

Picture Fuzzy Controller with Artificial Intelligent

Decision making of Two-Inputs Single-Output(TISO) type problem with picture fuzzy logic controller system which is an artificial Intelligent framework.

Picture Fuzzy Inference with Artificial Intelligent

Decision making of Single-Input Single-Output(SISO) type problem with picture fuzzy logic inference system which is an artificial Intelligent framework.

Performance and Explainability of Modern Deep Learning Models for Brain Tumor MRI Segmentation

Brain tumor segmentation from magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is essential for accurate diagnosis, treatment planning, and disease monitoring. While convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have achieved remarkable success in this task, recent Transformer and Mamba-based architectures have emerged as promising alternatives. However, their effectiveness and interpretability for brain tumor segmentation remain under-explored. This paper presents a comprehensive comparative study of modern deep learning models, including U-Net, Attention U-Net, DeepLabV3+, encoder-based U-Net variants, TransUNet, Simplified Mamba U-Net, and Mamba U-Net, using a publicly available brain MRI dataset. Performance is evaluated using Dice, IoU, Precision, Recall, F1-score, Pixel Accuracy, ROC-AUC, model complexity, inference latency, and model size. In addition, Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) techniques are employed to visualize and compare model decision-making behavior. Experimental results show that lightweight CNN-based architectures, particularly EfficientNet-B0 U-Net, achieve the best balance between segmentation accuracy and computational efficiency, while Transformer and Mamba-based models offer competitive performance. The XAI analysis further highlights differences in feature localization across architectures, providing valuable insights into model reliability and supporting informed model selection for brain tumor MRI segmentation.

What Actually Drives Profit in Telecom Churn Retention: Profit-Aligned Targeting versus Accuracy and Calibration

This paper presents a controlled, significance-tested decomposition of a telecom customer-churn retention pipeline, isolating which components actually improve realised profit rather than accuracy. Using two independent telecom datasets and bootstrap confidence intervals, we show that aligning the targeting decision with profit yields a large, statistically significant gain over accuracy-optimal thresholding (+13.1 percentage points of profit capture on Maven Telecom), while widely used techniques—class re-sampling and probability calibration—add no statistically significant profit once this is done. We further show that re-sampling harms probability calibration without improving ranking, and we honestly delimit the conditions under which profit-aligned targeting does and does not help.

A Low-Cost, Low-Latency IoT-RFID Attendance System with Real-Time Cloud Synchronization: Design and Field Evaluation

This study showcases an affordable IoT-based RFID attendance solution featuring real-time cloud synchronization through an ESP8266 NodeMCU, MFRC522 RFID reader, and a serverless Google Apps Script–Google Sheets setup. The suggested system attains an average end-to-end latency of 0.92 seconds, concurrently eliminating ongoing communication expenses and specific database upkeep. A thorough multi-user field assessment offers an accurate evaluation of deployment dependability in educational settings.

From Silence to Surge: Modeling Zero-Inflated Dengue Outbreaks in Bangladesh
The Simulator Gap: Benchmarking Facial Landmark Detection from Scratch
A RepVGG-Style Regional Token Transformer for Grape Leaf Disease Classification

The major contributions of this work are as follows. First, we propose a novel hybrid grape leaf disease classification framework that integrates a RepVGG-style multi-branch convolutional backbone with a Transformer encoder, enabling effective learning of both local disease characteristics and global contextual relationships. Second, we introduce a regional token learning strategy that transforms the final 7×7 convolutional feature map into 49 high-level semantic regional tokens, rather than directly tokenizing raw image patches, thereby providing more informative representations for Transformer-based feature learning. Third, multi-head self-attention is employed to capture long-range dependencies among lesions, venation patterns, disease boundaries, and surrounding leaf tissues, improving discrimination between visually similar grape leaf diseases. Finally, extensive experimental evaluations demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed framework, while Grad-CAM visualizations verify that the model focuses on biologically meaningful disease regions, enhancing both classification performance and model interpretability.

Greenhouse Gas Impact on Human Welfare in Bangladesh: In Search for SDG 13

This study makes a meaningful research contribution by linking environmental pressure from greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions to population health outcomes in Bangladesh over a long historical horizon (1975–2023). Specifically, it contributes in three main ways:Country-specific, long-run evidence on GHG–health linkages, Use of an integrated econometric framework to capture long-run relationships and dynamics, New insight into causality patterns, especially the CO₂–life expectancy feedback

Sustainable EdTech for Educational Equity: Evidence from the 10-Minute School Digital Learning Platform in Bangladesh

This study contributes to sustainable EdTech research by developing a Dual-Sided Equity Model that explains how digital learning platforms can simultaneously expand educational opportunities and reproduce structural inequalities. It introduces the concept of Conditional Educational Equity, arguing that digital access alone does not ensure equitable outcomes; learners must also have the capability to participate meaningfully and benefit from digital learning. By integrating platform affordances, structural digital divides, and PESTEL conditions, the study provides a context-sensitive framework for evaluating the sustainability and human impact of EdTech in Bangladesh and similar developing contexts.

Automated Eggplant Disease Detection Using Feature Fusion Based CNN with Explainable AI for Precision Agriculture

Automated and accurate detection of eggplant leaf diseases is crucial for improving yield and reducing economic loss, especially for smallholder farmers who lack timely access to expert diagnosis. However, existing vision-based systems often rely on a single deep model and operate as black boxes, which may struggle with complex visual symptoms, class imbalance, subtle inter-class variability, and a lack of interpretability for agronomists and farmers. To address these limitations, this study first conducts a comprehensive benchmark of 12 popular transfer learning architectures (VGG16, VGG19, ResNet50, ResNet152, DenseNet121, DenseNet201, Xception, InceptionV3, NasNetMobile, MobileNetV2, EfficientNetB7, ConvNeXtBase) on a seven-class eggplant leaf disease dataset using standardized preprocessing, data augmentation, and identical training protocols. After identifying ResNet152 and ConvNeXtBase as the top-performing models, their deep feature representations are fused at the feature level to construct a hybrid CNN-based feature fusion model, followed by a classifier head evaluated using accuracy, precision, recall, and F1-score, yielding more than a 7% improvement in overall accuracy compared with the best individual transfer learning backbone while also providing consistent gains across minority disease classes. To make the model transparent and trustworthy, explainable AI techniques such as Grad-CAM-based saliency maps are integrated to highlight the most influential leaf regions for each prediction, enabling visual validation of disease-specific patterns and reducing reliance on opaque decisions. The proposed XAI-enabled feature fusion model is suitable for deployment in real-world mobile or web-based decision-support tools, allowing farmers and agronomists not only to obtain reliable disease predictions from leaf images but also to understand why a particular diagnosis is made, thereby supporting timely, data-driven, and interpretable management actions in precision agriculture scenarios.

Psychological Perception of Conversational AI among tech-engaged youth in Bangladesh

The current study makes a significant contribution to the existing literature as one of the empirical studies on the psychological aspects of using conversational AI among tech-engaged youth in Bangladesh. The results show that there is a trust–usage gap, meaning that the more people use AI, the more they value its utility, but not necessarily its trustworthiness. The study also reveals that perceived AI emotional understanding is a more powerful predictor of positive psychological impact than general trust and surface-level anthropomorphism, providing a nuanced view of human–AI interaction in a developing-country context. This study combines quantitative statistical analysis with qualitative thematic findings, offering a culturally relevant framework that enhances the understanding of the adoption of AI and guiding future research on trust, anthropomorphism, and psychological interactions with AI in Bangladesh.

RiceMultiNet: Hybrid CNN-Based Rice Leaf Disease Detection via Multi-Model Feature Fusion with Explainable AI

The main contributions of this work are summarized as
follows:
1) We create a kind of framework that combines three
things: EfficientNetB1, ResNet50 and MobileNetV2.
This combination helps the framework to work when
it comes to classifying diseases in rice leaves that look
very similar.
2) We try out six pre-trained networks. VGG19, ResNet50,
DenseNet121, MobileNetV2, EfficientNetB0 and EfficientNetB1. To see which one works best. We keep
everything the same like how we prepare the data and
how we train the networks.
3) We also test the trained models using pictures of rice
leaves that were taken in the field. These pictures were
taken in light with different backgrounds and, with
different cameras. This helps us see how well the models
can work in life when the conditions are not perfect.
4) To make the models more understandable we use something called Grad-CAM visualization. This helps us see
which parts of the leaf the model is looking at when it
makes a prediction.

A Low-Cost Dual-Processor IoT Testbed for Real Time PV Monitoring: Fault Emulation and Threshold-Based Alerting

Currently, commercial single chip IoT monitors used in PV education have problems with ADC noise from the built-in Wi-Fi and expensive/unpredictable PV arrays. In this paper, we introduce a second processor-based testbed for emulating PV in off-grid settings, which is built with minimal cost. The major innovation here is the decoupled design, which uses an Arduino Nano (ATmega328P) to process analog signals (voltages, currents, temperature, irradiance) so that analog signals are not corrupted by digital signals created by the ESP32’s WIFI. In addition to passive loggers, Solar Sync has controlled fault injection capabilities to simulate partial shading, overcurrent and thermal drift in a lab environment. It was tested for 96 hours under a 2W resistive load, and was highly stable (avg 12.06V, low SD) and delivered MQTT data to a web dashboard that has real-time graphing and automatic alerts. The platform is AI ready and has a cost of less than $45 and it connects between Renewable Energy theory and hands on IoT training, giving resource constrained academic labs an accessible, repeatable solution.

Design and Analysis of a Multi-Stage High-Power Converter for Wireless Electric Vehicle Charging toward Sustainable Transportation

This paper introduces the design and analysis of a multi-stage high-power converter-based wireless power transfer system for electric vehicle (EV) battery charging. The grid-to-battery architecture proposed consists of an AC rectifier, a DC link filter, a high-frequency inverter, an inductive power transfer link, a secondary rectifier, an output filter and a battery-monitoring unit. Unlike most of the previous works on the single-stage converter optimization and/or the design of compensation network, this work considers the entire circuit level power conversion path, such as the switching devices, resonant components, coupled coils, measurement points, and state-of-charge monitoring. Key electrical parameters for evaluation of the system performance are the DC-link voltage, inverter output voltage, transmitter-coil current, receiver induced voltage, rectified DC output, battery voltage, charging current and state of charge. Special focus is placed on converter-stage integration, DC-link voltage stability, resonance tuning, output filtering and stage-wise monitoring, which prevents unreliable and ineffective battery charging. The proposed architecture and design offer a complete basis for the future development of closed-loop control, the compensation of coil misalignment, bidirectional power transfer, and hardware implementation. In summary, this research helps to deepen understanding and improve optimization of multi-stage wireless EV charging system for sustainable transportation.

Beyond Decarbonization Case Study: Agrivoltaics as a Dual-Use Solution for Food and Energy Security in Bangladesh

Bangladesh faces a critical dilemma: securing energy for agriculture while preserving scarce land for food production. Over 1.6 million diesel-powered irrigation pumps drive a $3.2 billion annual fuel-import bill and measurable greenhouse-gas emissions, prompting the country to pioneer solar irrigation pumps (SIPs) through a fee-for-service model that cuts farmer costs by 20–30% without accelerating groundwater depletion. Yet conventional solar installations occupy 13–30 decimals of land per system, intensifying land-use conflict in a country where agricultural land has fallen from 80% to 76% of total area since 1989. This paper examines agrivoltaics—the co-location of solar generation and crop cultivation—as a response to this trade-off. Through a comparative multi-case analysis of seven agrivoltaic and integrated solar-agriculture initiatives in Bangladesh, spanning 37 kW customer-level systems to a planned 100 MW utility-scale plant, we analyze technical design, crop performance, economic and social co-benefits, and policy readiness. Results show shade-tolerant crops such as turmeric, ginger and lettuce match or exceed open-field yields under elevated panels, while rice yields fall by 20–25%; irrigation costs drop by 20–30%; farmers save 5–6 hours of daily labor; and groundwater extraction remains unaffected under the fee-for-service model. The paper concludes with policy recommendations for scaling agrivoltaics as Bangladesh pursues its Renewable Energy Policy 2025 target of 20% renewable electricity by 2030.

A Comparative Investigation of Long-Term Performance Degradation Factors of Photovoltaic Modules

The long-term performance of photovoltaic (PV) modules is strongly influenced by environmental and operational degradation factors, yet existing studies typically report these factors in isolation, for a single site, module type, or fault mechanism, which makes it difficult to compare degradation behavior across climates and technologies. This paper addresses that gap by systematically consolidating twenty-two field, indoor, and simulation-based studies (2020–2024) into a single comparative framework that links module age, climate, panel technology, and fault mechanism to measured power loss. Performance indicators, including solar rating, test location, module age, annual power output, and long-term losses, are extracted and tabulated for direct cross-study comparison, alongside solar degradation mechanisms such as potential-induced degradation (PID), light-induced degradation (LID), and thermal cycling, and environmental stressors such as temperature fluctuation, humidity, soiling, and UV exposure. Across the compiled dataset, the maximum reported power degradation is 3.1912 W per year and the minimum is 0.0225 W per year, and degradation severity is shown to increase consistently with module age, from minor surface-level defects in 4–5-year-old modules to critical structural and electrical failures beyond 20 years. Building on this synthesis, mitigation techniques reported in the literature, including enhanced MPPT algorithms, anti-soiling coatings, and scheduled cleaning, are compared to identify which strategies are best suited to specific climates and installation types. The findings support the case for localized performance evaluation and adaptive, climate-specific maintenance planning to improve the longevity and return on investment of PV systems.

Modeling, Feasibility and Performance Analysis of a Grid-Connected Near-Shore Wind Farm Using BEM-Based Simulation

Near-shore wind resources present a viable opportunity for expanding renewable energy generation in coastal developing regions where offshore deployment may be economically restrictive. This paper presents a detailed feasibility and performance analysis of a proposed grid-connected near-shore wind farm in the Patenga coastal region of Bangladesh, with comparative benchmarking against the existing Muhuri Dam on-shore wind farm. A structured turbine layout is proposed to minimize wake interaction and improve spatial energy distribution. Aerodynamic performance is evaluated using both analytical formulations and Blade Element Momentum (BEM)-based simulations implemented in Q-Blade. A simplified “Area Use Efficiency” (ηAS) metric is introduced to quantify land utilization effectiveness, and the potential applicability of diffuser-augmented wind turbine (DAWT) configurations is examined under low wind-speed conditions. Simulation results are cross-validated with manually derived calculations, showing consistent performance trends with an average deviation of approximately 30%. This deviation is critically analyzed in terms of scaling assumptions, aerodynamic simplifications, and loss modeling. The results demonstrate that near-shore configurations provide improved energy capture potential compared to conventional on-shore deployment in Bangladesh’s coastal regions. The study mainly provides a feasibility-level modeling preliminary framework and identifies key technical considerations for future high-fidelity simulation and experimental validation.

The major contributions of this work are summarized as follows:
1. A comparative feasibility framework between near-shore and existing on-shore wind farm configurations in
Bangladesh.
2. A structured turbine layout design to minimize wake losses and improve energy distribution.
3. Introduction of an “Area Use Efficiency” metric to quantify spatial utilization of wind farms.
4. Integration of analytical modeling with BEM-based simulation (Q-Blade) for cross-validation of turbine performance.
5. A critical, qualitative assessment of diffuser-augmented wind turbine (DAWT) configurations under low wind-speed conditions.
This work is positioned as a primary feasibility and modeling study rather than a high-fidelity aerodynamic or experimental investigation.

A Home Energy Management Framework for Bidirectional EV Charging and Solar-Battery Peak Shaving in Residential Microgrids

The large-scale penetration of EVs into the road transport market creates major challenges for the grid especially during peak demand periods in residential and EV dense areas. This paper introduces an integrated renewable energy-based EV charging station, which integrates the solar PV generation technology, the bidirectional Vehicle-to-Home (V2H) application, and the battery energy storage system to reduce the peak load of a residential community and decrease its dependence on the grid. The proposed system includes a 10-kW solar PV array, 8-kWh lithium-ion battery, 5-kW bidirectional inverter, maximum power point tracking controller and home energy management system. The performance of the system is analyzed by simulation for different loads over a full day. Parameters that are studied are PV voltage and current, battery SoC, and power flow between the grid, solar PV, and battery storage. The results from the simulation show that the proposed system provides an almost 60% renewable energy supply and an average 40% reduction in peak load using the system as compared to using the grid alone. V2H operation ensures stable backup power in case of fluctuations in the power grid and battery efficiency of more than 90%. Grid Level 2 charging charges 0% to 80% in 6.5 hours, solar charging under full sun takes 8 hours. The findings of this study validate that smart integration of renewable energy, energy storage, and bidirectional EV charging can create a more sustainable, resilient, and economical residential energy system that can be a part of decarbonization efforts for the world.

IoT and AI-Driven Framework for Real-Time Accident and Traffic Management

This paper proposes an IoT and AI-driven intelligent framework for real-time accident detection and traffic management. The proposed system integrates IoT sensors, cameras, and AI-based machine learning algorithms to detect road accidents, analyze traffic conditions, and provide immediate alerts to emergency services and traffic authorities. The framework aims to reduce emergency response time, improve traffic flow, enhance road safety, and support smart city transportation through real-time decision-making and predictive analytics.

Robust-SemCom: An Adversarial-Resilient Semantic Communication Framework for Contextual Text Transmission

• We leverage LLaMA for both semantic encoding and
decoding to capture deep contextual dependencies and
to mitigate adversarial attacks in semantic communication.
• To address the limitations of strict lexical matching in
Token Error Rate (TER) and Jaccard Similarity, we
augment these metrics to prioritize semantic consistency
over literal word-for-word comparison.
• The performance of the proposed system is rigorously
evaluated across both ideal channels and adversarial attack environments to demonstrate its resilience against
semantic noise and disturbances.

Assessment of Chemical and Microbial Quality of Fermented Dairy Products in Bangladesh: A Region-based Assessment

As a PhD student under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Mohammad Shohel Rana Siddiki

EFFECT OF FERMENTATION TIME ON THE QUALITY OF DIFFERENT MANGO FLAVORED WHEY BEVERAGE PREPARED BY USING Lactobacillus fermentum

Research work supervised by corresponding author for her MS Degree

Multilabel Emotion Recognition Using a Label-Query Dynamic Dependency Network

A label-query decoding module is introduced to extract emotion-specific representations from contextualized token features, enabling more discriminative modeling of individual emotions. Furthermore, a dual-branch dependency modeling framework is proposed to capture both static corpus-level label relationships and dynamic instance-level label interactions, allowing the model to better exploit inter-emotion dependencies. Finally, a joint optimization strategy is adopted by integrating classification, ranking-aware, and calibration-aware objectives, thereby improving multilabel decision quality and enhancing the prediction of infrequent or rare emotion labels.

MathAssist: An Interactive Mobile Application for Mathematics Learners Specially for Developing Countries Using AI, LLM And RAG Based Approach

Mathematics forms the foundation of science, engineering, and technology education . However, many students struggle with mathematical concepts due to limited personalised guidance, insufficient learning resources, and difficulties in understanding problem-solving procedures . These challenges are more severe in developing countries such as Bangladesh,where approximately 16.4 per cent of students face difficulties in mathematics and 53.1 per cent fail to achieve satisfactory
performance.
Recent advances in Artificial Intelligence (AI) have enabled intelligent tutoring systems capable of providing adaptive learning support and automated problem-solving assistance. Nevertheless, most existing solutions, including Photomath and Khan Academy, rely heavily on cloud computing and continuous internet connectivity. Such requirements
limit their applicability in rural and resource-constrained regions of Bangladesh, where internet access and digital infrastructure remain inadequate.
To address these challenges, this paper proposes MathAssist, an offline AI-assisted mobile learning framework that combines Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) and lightweight Large Language Models (LLMs) to provide context-aware and step-by-step mathematical assistance using verified educational content retrieved from a local knowledge base. The proposed memory-efficient Serial RAG architecture enables deployment on low-resource mobile devices while improving the reliability of mathematical reasoning.
The major contributions of this work are summarised as
follows:
• Development of an offline AI-assisted mathematics learning framework with multimodal interaction capabilities
and lightweight execution suitable for devices with less than 2 GB RAM.
• Design of a novel Serial RAG strategy that integrates semantic retrieval and local knowledge indexing with LLM-based reasoning, where experimental benchmarking identifies WizardMath as the most effective mathematical reasoning model among the evaluated LLMs.

MathAssist:A Memory-Efficient On-DeviceAI Mathematics Tutor for Low-Resource Environments

Mathematics is at the heart of Science, Engineering and Technology (SET) education [1]. Unfortunately, many learners experience difficulties in comprehending mathematical ideas because of a lack of personalised assistance, inadequate learning
resources and difficulties in grasping problem-solving steps. This problem becomes even more acute in developing
countries like Bangladesh, where about 16.4 per cent of learners encounter difficulties in learning mathematics and 53.1 per cent of them could not attain satisfactory academic
performance.
Thanks to recent progress in Artificial Intelligence (AI), modern intelligent tutoring systems allow adaptive learning and automate problem-solving [5]. Nonetheless, the existing solutions, including popular applications like Photomath and Khan
Academy, are based primarily on cloud computing and a continuous Internet connection [6]. This restricts the use of these technologies in the rural regions of Bangladesh, which have poor access to the Internet and other digital infrastructure.
To overcome the limitations mentioned above, the current research aims to propose MathAssist, an offline mobile AI-assisted learning framework combining Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) and lightweight Large Language Models (LLMs) to provide context-aware and step-by-step mathematical assistance with educational data retrieved from a
local knowledge base. The developed memory-efficient Serial RAG allows deploying the proposed system on resource-limited mobile devices and improves the reliability of mathematical
reasoning.
Major contributions of the current work are listed below:
• Development of an offline AI-assisted mathematics
learning framework with multimodal interactions and
lightweight execution allowing running on mobile devices with less than 2 GB RAM.
• Proposal of the novel Serial RAG approach incorporating semantic retrieval and local knowledge indexing along with LLM reasoning, where benchmarking experiments reveal WizardMath as the best mathematical reasoning model among all LLMs considered in the research.

Credit Approval System using Semi-Supervised Learning

A variety of supervised and unsupervised learning
algorithms from the fields of machine learning and pattern
recognition have been employed to enhance the efficiency of credit
approval systems. Supervised learning relies solely on labeled
data for training classifiers, which can be a time-consuming
process that often requires input from domain experts. In
contrast, unlabeled data is typically more accessible in many
real-world scenarios. Semi-supervised learning (SSL) effectively
addresses this challenge by combining a limited amount of labeled
data with a larger set of unlabeled examples. This dual approach
allows SSL to create stronger and more accurate classifiers than
traditional supervised learning methods alone. By utilizing both
data types, SSL capitalizes on the information contained within
unlabeled samples, thereby enhancing the model’s performance
and generalization ability. In this research, we have utilized self-
training and fuzziness-based semi-supervised learning strategies
tailored for credit approval systems within the banking and
finance sectors. Our experiments demonstrate that leveraging
samples categorized by self-training and fuzzy SSL significantly
enhances the overall accuracy and robustness of the credit
approval process compared to supervised classifiers.

A Memory-Efficient Bi-GRU Based Intrusion Detection System with Attention and Probability Calibration for Uncertainty Estimation

This paper proposes a memory-efficient BiGRU-based Intrusion Detection System (IDS) with an Attention mechanism to better learn network traffic patterns and improve attack detection. To make the model more reliable in real-world use, it also includes probability calibration and uncertainty estimation, so the system can indicate how confident it is about each prediction. In addition, focal loss, label smoothing, and oversampling are used to handle class imbalance, while model optimization techniques keep the system lightweight and suitable for resource-limited devices. Experimental results on the CIC-IDS-2018 dataset show that the proposed approach achieves high detection performance while providing more trustworthy predictions for practical network security applications.

On-Device Plant Disease Detection with CNN and Random Forest Ensembles

The study’s key contribution is an end-to-end, fully offline plant-disease detection system that combines features from six CNN architectures with a Random Forest classifier. Trained on a hybrid 81,686-image, five-crop dataset—including 10,000 field-collected images—the ensemble achieved 98.4% test accuracy and was deployed in an Android app for practical diagnosis in low-connectivity farming environments.

Multi-Granularity Self-Consistency Entropy for Large Language Model Hallucination Detection: Informative Insights Across Fabrication-Prone and Refusal-Prone Model Regimes

This work contributes a lightweight, training-free method for detecting hallucinations in large language models that requires no model retraining, no access to model internals, and no specialized hardware, running on a single consumer GPU. By decomposing self-consistency into token, entity, and semantic granularities and fusing them with interpretable per-model weights, it delivers competitive detection while avoiding the computational and energy cost of gradient-based or white-box approaches. We further show that the most effective signal varies with a model’s tuning regime, and we release the full evaluation pipeline to support reproducible, resource-efficient hallucination research.

Development of a Real-Time Fall Detection Prototype with Transition Dynamics Using an IR Camera and IoT Alert System

This paper presents the design, implementation, and evaluation of a real-time fall detection system intended to enhance safety monitoring for elderly individuals, with particular emphasis on night-time scenarios. The system integrates an infrared (IR) camera with the YOLOv8 deep-learning detector to localise the human body, while a rule-based transition-dynamics module interprets bounding-box geometry to confirm fall events. An Internet-of-Things (IoT) alert mechanism, comprising a local active buzzer and a Telegram notification service, provides immediate on-site and remote response. The prototype, deployed on a Raspberry Pi 4, achieved 84.62% live-deployment accuracy with an average detection latency of 0.8–1.2 s, while the underlying detector attained a mean Average Precision (mAP@50) of 98.4%. The IR imaging pipeline preserves occupant privacy through silhouette-based sensing and maintains effectiveness across illumination conditions. A comprehensive analysis of aspect-ratio thresholds, dynamic transition velocity, error sources, and end-to-end response times is provided. Experimental results confirm the feasibility of this non-intrusive, low-cost approach for continuous elderly care monitoring in residential environments.

Sine Cosine Algorithm-Based Proportional-Integral Controller for Low Voltage Ride Through Enhancement in Grid-Connected Photovoltaic Systems

This paper’s key contribution is an SCA-optimized PI controller (SCA-PI) for reactive power control to enhance low-voltage ride-through (LVRT) in a 5 MW grid-connected PV system (MATLAB/Simulink), tuned via the ITAE objective function. It benchmarks SCA-PI against conventional PI and GWO-PI controllers across 10%, 20%, and 30% voltage sag scenarios plus varying irradiance/load conditions. For the most severe 30% sag, SCA-PI reduced voltage drop from 30.54% to 14.48% and overshoot from 26.07% to 14.35%, demonstrating that a low-cost, internal-controller-based metaheuristic tuning approach can outperform both fixed-gain and GWO-based alternatives without added hardware.

A Bangla Speech Dataset for Sentence Type and Emotion Classification Using Traditional Machine Learning

Mahmudul Haque Shakir and Md. Saef Ullah Miah designed the experimental pipeline, prepared and trained the machine learning models, and carried out the evaluation, results analysis, and discussion. Aidah Anah, Tirtha Das Tanu, Md Imamul Islam, and Ahmed Al Mansur contributed to the construction of the Bangla speech dataset, including recording collection, annotation, and preprocessing, and to the preparation of the manuscript. All authors reviewed and approved the final version.

Unified Risk Stratification for Postpartum Depression, Anxiety, and Birth Trauma

Postpartum depression, anxiety and childbirth post-traumatic stress are usually screened with separate screening instruments, even though these problems tend to coexist. This study aims at creating a combined risk stratification scale for maternal mental health, integrating the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale, the anxiety subscale of the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale, and the City Birth Trauma Scale. The approach was tested based on the data collected using the questionnaires administered to 410 postpartum mothers. Preprocessing of the data followed by calculation of individual scores, correlation analysis, and estimation of cumulative score allowed to classify participants into the low, moderate and high-risk categories. The findings proved the presence of a strong positive correlation between the scales, which confirms the closeness of symptom domains but makes them non-substitutable. Combined assessment allowed to highlight some participants who may be experiencing a psychological load exceeding what could have been concluded based on a single test. The proposed scale offers an interpretable measure of the cumulative risk of postpartum mental health problems while maintaining individual scores.

A Low-Cost Multi-Layer Water Filtration Prototype: Design and Experimental Evaluation

This research proposes a 3D-printed, low-cost, gravity water filtration prototype using locally available materials. Different filter media configurations were experimentally evaluated using EC and TDS measurements to identify an effective filtration arrangement. This

A Lightweight Hybrid CNN-Transformer Architecture for Interpretable Evil Twin Attack Detection in Wi-Fi Networks

The study’s key contribution is a lightweight, interpretable CNN–Transformer model for Evil Twin attack detection, developed after benchmarking 63 ML/DL models on 3.78 million Wi-Fi records. The 5.08 MB model achieves near-perfect accuracy while providing attention-based explanations and strong performance on unseen and cross-dataset traffic.

An Intelligent Hybrid Framework Integrating PERT/CPM, COCOMO, SLIM, Machine Learning, and Multi-Agent Systems for Software Project Schedule Planning and Risk Prediction

The main contributions of this paper are:
1. A novel three-layer hybrid framework integrating traditional algorithmic models, ML, and MAS.
2. Empirical evaluation using four real-world datasets: NASA93, Desharnais, Maxwell, and Zenodo.
3. A four-agent MAS architecture with rule-based reasoning for dynamic buffer optimization.
4. Explainability analysis using SHAP to identify influential risk factors.

Low-Cost Embedded Stereo Depth Estimation Using Dual ESP32-CAM Modules for Robotics Applications

Stereo vision is a technique used by a machine to
calculate distance by comparing 2 images. These are all taken in
slightly different spots. In this paper we introduce our proposed
solution for low-cost stereo depth system with two ESP32- CAM
modules. One of the modules functions as an access point (AP).
The second module acts like a client. They are grayscale cameras
that produce 160 x 120 pixel images. This system implements a
block-oriented Sum of Absolute Differences (SAD) procedure for
disparity finding. Stereo triangulation is then used to estimate
depth. The implementation is based on fixed-point aritmethic,
and also it takes advantage of PSRAM to save memory usage
and reduce processing costs. It has the ability to create depth
maps and simple 3D point plots. The output of the skript is
an object coming 35cm right infront of the system. This test is
performed with static (non-moving) depth scenesOpen in new tab
i.e. the results also supports that if we have flat and low texture
areas then more noisy depth maps we get. In its configuration,
the system is a low-cost starter for depth sensing in robotics.

Enhanced Dental Caries Localization in Intraoral Photographs Through Hierarchical Feature Learning and Multi-Scale Fusion

Dental caries is a widespread oral disease whose
early detection remains difficult because conventional visual
assessment is subjective, time-consuming, and prone to examiner variability. This study proposes an automated detection
framework that combines deep residual feature extraction with
bidirectional multi-scale feature aggregation to improve localization of small and low-contrast carious lesions in intraoral
photographs. Transfer learning, image normalization, and geometric and photometric augmentation are employed to enhance
robustness. The framework is evaluated on the publicly available
Annotated Intraoral Image Dataset for Dental Caries Detection
and compared with several alternative backbone architectures.
Experimental results show a precision of 0.8173, recall of 0.7601,
F1-score of 0.7877, mAP@0.5 of 0.7998, and mAP@0.5:0.95
of 0.6361. Image-level evaluation further yields a sensitivity
of 0.8894, specificity of 0.9502, and accuracy of 0.9283. These
findings demonstrate effective lesion localization and clinically
relevant screening performance while providing a reproducible
benchmark for future research on reliable computer-aided dental
caries detection.

THE CONNECTION BETWEEN CLIMATE CHANGE AND HEALTH STATUS IN GLOBAL: ADDRESSING THE SDG 3 AND 13

The study investigates the complex relationship between climate conditions and health status by categorizing countries into distinct clusters, focusing on how climate change disproportionately affects low-income nations despite historical emissions from high-income countries.The study investigates the complex relationship between climate conditions and health status by categorizing countries into distinct clusters, focusing on how climate change disproportionately affects low-income nations despite historical emissions from high-income countries

Solar Power Prediction using Meta-Residual Booster with Explainable AI

The key innovations of this research are:

1. Two-stage residual learning: Explicit error correction where the second model learns to predict residuals of the first, rather than modeling the target directly.
2. Meta-feature augmentation: Self-referential features (rolling statistics, prediction lags, magnitude) derived from base model outputs that capture temporal error patterns.
3. Self-aware prediction architecture: The model leverages its own intermediate predictions as additional input signals, creating a feedback loop for error refinement.
4. Interpretable ensemble: Built on SHAP explainability, enabling identification of both original feature contributions and meta-feature importance.

Multi-Dataset Dermatological Lesion Classification via Self-Supervised Feature Extraction and Attention-Driven Hybrid Resampling Networks

Automated classification of multi-dataset skin lesions
is constrained by severe class imbalances and poor cross-dataset
generalization across clinical and dermoscopic modalities. To
resolve these gaps, this paper presents a unified framework com-
bining deep self-supervised feature extraction with an attention-
enhanced hybrid resampling network. We utilize a frozen DI-
NOv2 Vision Transformer backbone to extract 384-dimensional
continuous image embeddings without specialized fine-tuning.
To eliminate dataset skewness, the continuous vector space
is balanced via a hybrid SMOTETomek resampling protocol,
followed by a downstream Multi-Head Attention neural network
that dynamically weights fine-grained pathological variations.
Rigorous stratified 5-fold cross-validation across four landmark
datasets (HAM10000, Skin Disease, ISIC 2019, and DermNet), en-
compassing over 70,000 images spanning 7 to 23 distinct classes,
validates our architecture against traditional machine learning
baselines. The proposed model demonstrates high computational
stability, yielding hold-out test accuracies ranging from 72.41% to
98.00% and macro-averaged AUC–ROC scores between 96.32%
and 99.88%. Notably, on the highly complex 22-class Skin Disease
hold-out pool of 12,108 images, the framework records a robust
accuracy of 84.07%, with a Cohen’s Kappa of 0.8332 and a
Matthews Correlation Coefficient (MCC) of 0.8332. This study
highlights the potential of foundation models with structural
attention to support clinical decision-making, reduce diagnostic
delays, and improve equitable access to advanced dermatological
identification in resource-constrained environments.

KishiNet: A Lightweight Hybrid CNN–Transformer Architecture with an Attention and Out-of-Distribution Rejection Mechanism for Explainable Multi-Crop Plant Disease Detection and Mobile Deployment

Plant diseases remain a major threat to agricultural
output and food security in Bangladesh, where rural smallholders
often have limited access to trained plant pathologists. Deep
learning offers an alternative diagnostic route, but most existing
models are built for a single crop, are too heavy for lowcost mobile hardware, or behave as opaque classifiers that give
a label without any visual justification. This paper presents
KishiNet, a hybrid architecture aimed at efficient, multi-crop
disease diagnosis on-device. The model couples a MobileNetV2
backbone for lightweight feature extraction with a Convolutional
Block Attention Module (CBAM) that refines spatial and channel
features, followed by a compact Vision Transformer (ViT) head
that models long-range dependencies between leaf lesions that are
spread across a frame. The network was trained and evaluated
on a curated set of 17,990 images spanning 17 classes across
five economically important crops in Bangladesh plus a background/noise class, combining public repositories with roughly
1,000 field-collected samples. After MD5-based deduplication and
class balancing, training used a stratified 70/15/15 split under a
two-phase schedule. To reduce false positives caused by nonbotanical objects appearing in unconstrained field photos, an
Out-of-Distribution (OOD) rejection layer based on softmaxthreshold gating was added to the decision pipeline. On the
held-out test set, KishiNet reached 97.49% accuracy with a
weighted F1-score of 97.48%, and a macro-averaged validation
accuracy of 99.24% was obtained during model selection. GradCAM visualizations are used to expose the leaf regions driving
each prediction, and the trained network was exported to a 9.72
MB TensorFlow Lite binary that runs inside the KrishiBondhu
Android application, allowing offline inference in areas with
limited connectivity.

Toward Intelligent Cauliflower Disease Recognition: A CLAHE-Enhanced Image Processing and SVM-Based Classification Framework

1. Proposes an automated cauliflower disease recognition framework by integrating image processing techniques with ML for accurate disease analysis.
2. Develops a robust feature extraction pipeline using segmentation and GLCM-based texture features to enhance disease region representation.
3. Utilizes a SVM classifier for effective multi-class classification, validated through comprehensive experiments on a cauliflower disease image dataset.

Amar Surokha: An Integrated Mobile Application for Spatiotemporal Crime Prediction and Emergency Contact Management

Personal safety and emergency medical response
remain critical challenges in densely populated developing-country
such as Bangladesh, where rapid urbanization has been accompa-
nied by rising crime rates and delayed emergency assistance. This
paper presents Amar Surokha, an integrated mobile application
that unifies location-based crime prediction, proximity-aware
emergency response, and blood bank management within a
single platform. An XGBoost classifier was trained on 5,012
preprocessed records drawn from the Bangladesh Crime Dataset
(CrimeDataBD), using location, temporal, and weather-derived
features to predict one of three crime categories: Violent Crime,
Body Found, and Murder. XGBoost was benchmarked against a
Random Forest baseline under an identical pipeline; XGBoost
achieved the best overall performance, with 52.44% test accuracy
and a macro-averaged F1-score of 0.5192, validated through
5-fold stratified cross-validation (mean accuracy 51.43% ±
2.58%). The system was implemented using Flutter for cross-
platform mobile delivery, Firebase for real-time data storage,
the OpenRouteService API for road-network-based proximity
ranking of emergency contacts and blood donors, and a Flask
REST API deployed on Render for cloud-hosted model inference.
Results indicate that the proposed system is technically feasible
and provides a reproducible reference architecture for integrating
machine learning with mobile emergency-response infrastructure
in resource-constrained environments.

Automated Vehicle Plate Number Recognition System using YOLOv4

This paper’s key contribution is an end-to-end automated license plate recognition pipeline — combining YOLOv4 with a CSPDarknet-53 backbone for vehicle/plate detection, classical image processing (thresholding, contour-based dilation) for character segmentation, and EasyOCR for alphanumeric recognition — deployed via a practical Streamlit web interface for real-world use (e.g., residential parking management). Notably, it presents a dataset-size ablation (Table I), showing that scaling from 347 to 737 images improved precision to 99% despite a slight mAP dip (89.2% → 83.26%), offering a transparent, honest account of the precision-recall trade-offs and current limitations (below-average training mAP/recall) rather than overstating performance.

Chi-Square Feature Selection and SMOTE-Balanced Ensemble Learning for Cervical Cancer Risk Prediction

• A compact cervical cancer risk-prediction framework
using training-data-only Chi-square feature selection to
retain 27 informative features.
• A Soft Voting ensemble of Logistic Regression, XGBoost, and CatBoost combined with SMOTE-based classimbalance handling.
• A multi-level SHAP analysis providing global feature importance, feature directionality, and individual prediction
explanations.
• An interactive research prototype that unifies modelbased risk prediction, probability and threshold information, and feature-level explanations within a single
interface.

A Lightweight Ensemble Deep Learning Framework for Automated Malaria Parasite Detection from Microscopic Blood Cell Images

We have proposed a lightweight deep learning framework for automated malaria parasite detection from microscopic blood cell images, aiming to provide accurate and computationally efficient diagnosis.

We have introduced a weighted ensemble learning strategy by combining Custom CNN and DenseNet121 to improve classification performance, robustness, and generalization capability.

We have validated the effectiveness of the proposed framework using multiple evaluation metrics, including accuracy, precision, recall, F1-score, ROC-AUC, PR-AUC, confidence interval analysis, and 5-fold cross-validation.

An ROI-Guided Explainable Deep Ensemble Framework for Kidney Stone Detection from Coronal CT Images

We have introduced RDWS-EKSD framework, a dynamically weighted stacked ensemble with ROI-guided preprocessing for kidney stone CT image classification.

We have integrated Grad-CAM++ explainability to verify predictions against diagnostically relevant renal regions.

We have conducted a comprehensive comparative evaluation, demonstrating that the proposed framework achieves 99.71% test accuracy and outperforms all individual backbone models.

Machine Learning-Based Multi-Crop Soil Suitability Classification for the Bogura Region of Bangladesh

This study presents a region-specific machine learning framework for multi-crop soil suitability classification in Bogura, Bangladesh. It integrates 1,698 geographic soil records with 11 soil and environmental parameters to independently evaluate the suitability of rice, maize, banana, and papaya. Four supervised machine learning models are compared, with XGBoost achieving the highest agreement with the rule-derived suitability classes. The study also incorporates feature-group ablation, class-wise evaluation, and ranked decision-rule extraction to improve model interpretation and support data-driven agricultural decision-making.

Smell-Augmented Symbolic Regression for Explainable Cross-Project Defect Prediction

Cross-Project Defect Prediction (CPDP) remains a critical challenge in software engineering, primarily due to severe dataset shift and systemic class imbalance between source and target repositories. Furthermore, the state-of-the-art black-box machine learning models have an inherent lack of interpretability and out-of-distribution generalization. This paper presents an empirical framework leveraging Smell-Enhanced Symbolic Regression (SR) to derive explicit, human-readable mathematical formulations for defect prediction, capable of robust extrapolation. The proposed framework is rigorously evaluated across eight heterogeneous software project transitions against 23 baseline configurations using five standardized performance metrics and non-parametric significance analysis. The empirical results demonstrate that Symbolic Regression delivers complete interpretability without sacrificing the predictive performance of complex, top-tier models.

SpecSynLite: Localization-Guided Residual Harmonic Synthesis for Energy-Efficient Real-Time Speech Enhancement

The main contributions are: (1) a hybrid enhancement-synthesis architecture with selective activation; (2) a localization-guided synthesis mask that restricts synthesis to speech-dominant regions; and (3) an energy-aware training objective that explicitly optimizes the quality-per-compute tradeoff for sustainable edge deployment.

Conformal Influence-Driven Realignment (CIDR): A Framework for Restoring Model Reliability under Distribution Shift

This paper proposes CIDR, a three-stage framework integrating entropy-based drift detection, influence-guided targeted unlearning, and conformal recalibration to restore model reliability under distribution shift. CIDR restores coverage to 0.903 ± 0.034 against a target of 0.90 with no statistically significant accuracy degradation, outperforms full retraining in accuracy (0.770 vs. 0.669) and efficiency (30% smaller prediction sets, 1/10 the cost), and provides a practical solution for maintaining trustworthy AI under drift.

EdgeSepLoc: A Lightweight Multi-Task Network for Real-Time Speech Enhancement and Spectral Localization on Resource-Constrained Devices

Three major contributions: (1) a unified low-latency archi-
tecture for joint enhancement and spectral localization given
a hard constraint on the amount of compute on the edge;
(2) a localization-guided attention gate, leveraging spatial
information to better enhance images, while also improving
the quality of the enhancement; and (3) an uncertainty-aware
confidence head, which flags spatially uncertain bins to avoid
degradation in reverberant environments

AI Large Language Model-Based Framework for Intelligent Software Test Automation

Software testing remains one of the most labor-intensive stages of the software development lifecycle, and conventional automation frameworks rely on brittle, manually written scripts that require constant upkeep as applications evolve. The recent emergence of large language models (LLMs) capable of understanding natural-language requirements and producing syntactically correct code has opened a new path toward intelligent test automation. This paper synthesizes current research and proposes a layered architecture, referred to as the LLM-Driven Test Automation Framework (LTAF), that integrates retrieval-augmented context ingestion, LLM-based test-case generation, automated script synthesis for common automation stacks, a self-healing locator component, and a closed feedback loop between test execution and the generative model. We describe the architecture and design rationale of each component, discuss how the framework could be evaluated against established baselines such as search-based test generation, and summarize the reported strengths and limitations of LLM-based testing approaches drawn from the current body of work. We further identify open challenges, including the test-oracle problem, hallucinated assertions, flaky-test diagnosis, and data-privacy concerns when proprietary code is shared with external model providers, and we outline directions for future research toward reliable, self-repairing test automation pipelines.