Computer Science & Engineering

    Faculty Profile

    Dr. Sadia Sultana

    Associate Professor

    Contact Information:

    • Office Address: Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Dr. M. Wazed Mia IICT Building , SUST
    • Email: sadia-cse@sust.edu

    Education:

    • MSc (Thesis): Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering, Shahjalal University of Science and Technology, Sylhet.
    • BSc. (Engg): Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering, Shahjalal University of Science and Technology, Sylhet.
    • PhD: Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering, Shahjalal University of Science and Technology, Sylhet.

    Research Interests:

    • Speech Analysis
    • Speech Recognition
    • Emotion Recognition
    • Image Processing
    • Deep Learning
    • Big Data

    Active Research Project

    1. Developing a Bangladeshi Facial Expression Database: SUFEDB (SUST Facial Expression Database. Period: 2022-2023; Funded by: SUST Research Centre, SUST, Sylhet, Bangladesh. Responsibility: Principal Investigator

    Previous Research Project

    1. Developing an Emotional Speech Corpus in Bangla and a Web Application; Implementation. Period: 2019-2020; Funded by: SUST Research Centre, SUST, Sylhet, Bangladesh. Responsibility: Co-Investigator
    2. Investigating Information Security Awareness: An Empirical Research among Students and Staffs in Shahjalal University of Science and Technology, Sylhet, Bangladesh. Period: 2019-2020; Funded by: SUST Research Centre, SUST, Sylhet, Bangladesh. Responsibility: Co-Investigator

    Awards & Recognition:

    • Dean's Award for Research Excellence - 2021
    • Yearly Graduate Scholarship: For securing letter grade A as one of the top students during MSc study.
    • Yearly Undergraduate Scholarship: Earned yearly scholarship in all years of undergraduate study which is given based on yearly result.
    • Dean's Award: For securing the highest CGPA in the faculty.
    • Vice Chancellor's Award: For securing the highest CGPA in the school.
    • Chancellor's Gold Medal: For the outstanding result in the corresponding session of undergraduate study.

    Journal Publications

    1. Sadia Sultana, Mohammad Shahidur Rahman, Acoustic feature analysis and optimization for Bangla speech emotion recognition, Acoustical Science and Technology, 2023, Volume 44, Issue 3, Pages 157-166
    2. Alam Monisha, S. T., & Sultana, S. (2022). "A Review of the Advancement in Speech Emotion Recognition for Indo-Aryan and Dravidian Languages". Advances in Human-Computer Interaction, 2022.
    3. M. Ifaz Ahmad Isti, M. Hussayeen Khan Anik, Samiha Nuzhat, Rubel Chandra Talukder, Sadia Sultana, Shovasis Kumar Biswas, and Hriteshwar Talukder, "Highly sensitive double D-shaped channel photonic crystal fiber based plasmonic refractive index sensor," Opt. Continuum 1, 575-590 (2022)
    4. S. Sultana, M. Zafar Iqbal, M. Reza Selim, M. M. Rashid and M. Shahidur Rahman, "Bangla Speech Emotion Recognition and Cross-lingual Study Using Deep CNN and BLSTM Networks," in IEEE Access, doi: 10.1109/ACCESS.2021.3136251.
    5. Sadia Sultana,M. Shahidur Rahman,M. Reza Selim,M. Zafar Iqbal,"SUST Bangla Emotional Speech Corpus (SUBESCO): An audio-only emotional speech corpus for Bangla", Plos One. Published: April 30,2021
    6. Sadia Sultana, M. Shahidur Rahman, M. Zafar Iqbal, "Recent Advancement in Speech Recognition for Bangla: A Survey", International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications(IJACSA), Volume 12 Issue 3, 2021
    7. Farida Chowdhury, Sadia Sultana and Mahruba Sharmin Chowdhury. “Security And Privacy Perceptions Among Female Online Social Media Users: A Case Study Of Bangladesh”, International Journal of Security, Privacy and Trust Management (IJSPTM), ISSN 2277 - 5498
    8. Sultana S., Shahriar F.M., Hasan M.K. (2010) Chip-to-chip Free-space Optical Interconnection Using Liquid-crystal-over-silicon Spatial light modulator. In: Elleithy K., Sobh T., Iskander M., Kapila V., Karim M., Mahmood A. (eds) Technological Developments in Networking, Education and Automation. Springer, Dordrecht.

    Conference Proceedings

    1. M. A. Hossen, A. Govindaiah, S. Sultana and A. Bhuiyan, "Bengali Sign Language Recognition Using Deep Convolutional Neural Network," 2018 Joint 7th International Conference on Informatics, Electronics & Vision (ICIEV) and 2018 2nd International Conference on Imaging, Vision & Pattern Recognition (icIVPR), 2018, pp. 369-373, doi: 10.1109/ICIEV.2018.8640962.
    2. K. E. Aziz, A. Wadud, S. Sultana, M. A. Hussain and A. Bhuiyan, "Bengali Sign Language Recognition using dynamic skin calibration and geometric hashing," 2017 6th International Conference on Informatics, Electronics and Vision & 2017 7th International Symposium in Computational Medical and Health Technology (ICIEV-ISCMHT), 2017, pp. 1-5, doi: 10.1109/ICIEV.2017.8338591.
    3. Sadia Sultana, Dr. M. Jahirul Islam.”An Efficient Method of Texture and Shape based Content-based Image Retrieval”, International Conference on Engineering Research, Innovation and Education 2013 (ICERIE 2013) conference, January 11-13, 2013.

    Teaching

    • Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science & Engineering, Shahjalal University of Science & Technology (SUST), Sylhet, Bangladesh. October 2021 - Present
    • Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science & Engineering, Shahjalal University of Science & Technology (SUST), Sylhet, Bangladesh. June 2012 - October 2021
    • Lecturer, Department of Computer Science & Engineering, Shahjalal University of Science & Technology (SUST), Sylhet, Bangladesh. October 2009 - June 2012.
    • Lecturer, Department of Computer Science & Engineering, Leading University, Sylhet, Bangladesh. October 2008 - October 2009.
    • Student Advisor, Department of Computer Science & Engineering, Shahjalal University of Science & Technology (SUST), Sylhet, Bangladesh. June 2021 - Present