Consultancy, Research and Testing Services (CRTS)

Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) is a well-established department of Khulna University of Engineering & Technology with highly profiled personnel and well equipped laboratories. Apart from the academic activities, the department has a Consultancy, Research and Testing Services (CRTS) wing from the very beginning of its journey. Through CRTS the department works for the betterment of the community or country to achieve excellence in the field of Engineering and Technology, in forms of expertise knowledge service, testing and training.

Research Based Expertise Support

Bangla Natural Language Processing:

Natural-language processing (NLP) is an area of computer science and artificial intelligence concerned with the interactions between computers and human (natural) languages. It deals with the large amount of natural language data to process fruitfully. Bangla which is sixth most popular language in the world but still in degraded stage at least as far as work in the area of computational linguistics is concerned. We have expertise in Bangla natural language processing specially in

  • • Bangla grammar recognition or parsing Bangla sentences,
  • • Sentiment/opinion mining from Bangla text,
  • • Bangla POS tagging,
  • • Bangla corpus design and Implementation,
  • • Summarization of Bangla text.

Expert:

Prof. Dr. K M Azharul Hasan



Machine Learning and Deep Learning :

Machine Learning (ML) is the field of study that develop computer system for intelligent task through learning from data and making adaptive to environment. Artificial Neural Network (ANN) and Swarm Intelligence based different methods are well studied ML methods for many real-life classification and optimization tasks. In the recent time, ANN based various Deep Learning methods (e.g., SDAE, DBN, CNN, LSTM) playing key roles to handle a wide range of critical applications, such as pattern recognition, optical character recognition (OCR), natural language processing (NLP), data mining and expert systems. Outcomes of persistent contributions of this department in ML has been published in different prestigious international journals and conferences. Experts of this department may provide potential solutions in different ML domains for intelligent system based better civilization. Several specific field of interest are as follows:

  • • Real-Life intelligent pattern recognition and classifier system development,
  • • High performance OCR development employing Deep Learning ,
  • • Enhancement of different NLP operations (especially for Bangla) using Deep Learning

Expert:

Prof. Dr. Muhammad Aminul Haque Akhand , Al-Mahmud



Database and Data Science applications :

A database can store and handle vast amounts of data. Databases are used to store and handle data that makes it easy to manage, access, and updated quickly and efficiently. Database applications are used to search, sort, calculate, report and share information. Databases can also contain code to perform mathematical and statistical calculations on the data to support complex queries and statistical analysis. Data science is an interdisciplinary field of scientific methods, processes, algorithms and systems to extract knowledge from data in various forms, either structured or unstructured. Cleaning of data is important to apply in industrial applications. We have expertise in

  • • Database design and implementations specially for web based system,
  • • Extract meaning/structure and interpret data using machine learning tools
  • • Extracting knowledge or insights from data in various forms either structured or unstructured data.

Expert:

Prof. Dr. K M Azharul Hasan, Prof. Dr. Sk. Md. Masudul Ahsan



Cyber and Computer Security :

Computer Security is the protection of computing systems and the data that they store or access. It takes cares about controlling physical access to the hardware, as well as protecting against the harm that may come via network access, data, and code injection. Thus, it reduces the risk of cyber-attacks and protects organizations and individuals from the unauthorized exploitation of systems, networks, and technologies. In summary, cybersecurity protects systems, networks, and programs from digital attacks. These attacks are usually aimed at accessing, changing, or destroying sensitive information; extorting money from users; or interrupting normal business processes. Implementing effective cybersecurity measures is particularly challenging today because there are more devices than people, and attackers are becoming more innovative. Therefore, we aim to propose secure systems for the betterment of human being to ensure satisfaction in their social life. Several specific field of interest are as follows:

  • • Applied Cryptography,
  • • Information Security Protocol
  • • Applications of Machine Learning.

Expert:

Prof. Dr. Kazi Md. Rokibul Alam



Computer Vision and Image Processing :

Computer vision is an interdisciplinary field that deals with how computers can be made for gaining high-level understanding from digital images or videos. From the perspective of engineering, it seeks to automate tasks that the human visual system can do. Computer Vision and Image Processing (CVIP) is used to emulate human level vision extracting information from digital images. In the process of image analysis and understanding it demands various low-level image processing techniques to extract features. Some Specific application area of CVIP includes:

  • • Human Motion Estimation and Activity Recognition,
  • • Foreground Background Modelling, Salient region detection
  • • Bangla OCR, Sign Language recognition
  • • Various Objects (Traffic sign / Number plate / Plant species from leaf) detection / recognition

Expert:

Prof. Dr. Sk. Md. Masudul Ahsan


Consultation Services:

  • • Requirement Analysis of Software or Hardware
  • • Database Design
  • • Large Scale Network Design
  • • Development of Automation System

Testing Services:

  • • Test specification compliance of specialized hardware and / or software.
  • • Testing quality and functionality of hardware and software

Training Services:

The CRTS, CSE offers professional trainings to students as well as industry personnel for their skill development. We are one of the leading Cisco Local Networking Academy in Bangladesh. Cisco Networking Academy Program (CNAP) is one of the most noteworthy professional trainings offered by us. Following are the list of training courses we offer. Details can be found in http://www.kuet.ac.bd/cnap/.

  • • Four semester training on Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA) Routing and Switching course
  • • One semester training on CCNA Security course
  • • One semester training on CCNA Cyber Security course
  • • One semester training on IOT: Connecting Things course