Faculty Profile

Dr. Sadia Sultana

Professor

Contact Information

  • Office Address: Department of Computer Science & Engineering, Shahjalal University of Science and Technology, Sylhet-3114, Bangladesh
  • Phone: +8801911089612
  • Email: [email protected]

Education

  • BSc. (Engg): Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering, Shahjalal University of Science and Technology, Sylhet.
  • MSc (Thesis): 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. PhD fellowship was funded by the Ministry of Education, University Grants Commission, Bangladesh sponsored by the World Bank under Higher Education Quality Enhancement Project for the Development of Multi-Platform Speech and Language Processing Software for Bangla (HEQEP AIF Window 4, CP 3888) Project.

Research Interests

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

Active Research Project

  • 1. Developing an EEG Dataset (EmoEG) by Comparative Analysis of Brain Waves for Different Emotional States. Period: 2025-2026; 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
  • 3. 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
  • 4. Developing a Lip Reading dataset and a System in Bangla Period: 2023-2024; Funded by: SUST Research Centre, SUST, Sylhet, Bangladesh. Responsibility: Principal Investigator
  • 5. Developing an EEG Dataset (EmoEG) by Comparative Analysis of Brain Waves for Different Emotional States. Responsibility: Thesis Supervisor and project investigator.
  • 6. Enhance the Lip Reading Dataset for Developing an Automated Speech Recognition System in Bangla, Period: 2024-2025; Funded by: SUST Research Centre, SUST, Sylhet, Bangladesh. Responsibility: Co-Investigator

Journal Publications

  • 1. A Deep Learning Approach Toward Analyzing the Cross-Lingual Acoustic-Phonetic Similarities in Multilingual Speech Emotion Recognition (2025)
  • 2. An Efficient Ensemble Learning Model Integrating Multi‐ Branch Sub‐Networks for Facial Expression Recognition (2025)
  • 3. Acoustic feature analysis and optimization for Bangla speech emotion recognition (2023)
  • 4. A Review of the Advancement in Speech Emotion Recognition for Indo-Aryan and Dravidian Languages (2022)
  • 5. Highly sensitive double D-shaped channel photonic crystal fiber based plasmonic refractive index sensor (2022)
  • 6. Bangla Speech Emotion Recognition and Cross-lingual Study Using Deep CNN and BLSTM Networks (2022)
  • 7. SUST Bangla Emotional Speech Corpus (SUBESCO): An audio-only emotional speech corpus for Bangla (2021)
  • 8. Recent Advancement in Speech Recognition for Bangla: A Survey (2021)
  • 9. Security And Privacy Perceptions Among Female Online Social Media Users: A Case Study Of Bangladesh (2020)

Conference

  • 1. ExMute: A Context-Enriched Multimodal Dataset for Hateful Memes (2025)
  • 2. Bengali Sign Language Recognition Using Deep Convolutional Neural Network (2018)
  • 3. Bengali Sign Language Recognition using dynamic skin calibration and geometric hashing (2017)
  • 4. "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. (2013)

Book/ Book Chapter

  • 1. Developing an EEG Dataset (EmoEG) For The Comparative Analysis of Brain Waves Across Different Emotional States
  • 2. Chip-to-chip Free-space Optical Interconnection Using Liquid-crystal-over-silicon Spatial light modulator

Teaching

  • Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science & Engineering, Shahjalal University of Science & Technology (SUST), Sylhet, Bangladesh. October 2021 - September 2025
  • 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 - 2023
  • Assistant Provost, Begum Fazilatunnesa Mujib Hall, March 2023-June 2024
  • Professor, Department of Computer Science & Engineering, Shahjalal University of Science & Technology (SUST), Sylhet, Bangladesh. September 2025 - Present

Awards & Recognition

  • Chancellor's Gold Medal:in recognition of the highest talent and achievement among all graduates of the university at the bachelor level of session 2022-2003.
  • Vice Chancellor's Award: in recognition of the highest talent and achievement among all graduates of the school of Applied Science and Technology at the bachelor level of session 2022-2003.
  • Dean's Award: For securing the highest CGPA with honors in the faculty.
  • Undergraduate Merit Scholarship, UGC, 2003-2007
  • Graduate Merit Scholarship, UGC, 2010-2011
  • Dr. Khairullah Research Award received from CSE, SUST- 2022
  • Dean's Award for Research Excellence - 2022
  • Dean's Award for Research Excellence - 2023

Graduate Supervision

  • 1. Investigating the Impact of Cross-lingual Acoustic-Phonetic Similarities on Multilingual Speech Emotion Recognition (MSc)