Faculty Profile

Dr. Sadia Sultana

Associate Professor

Contact Information

  • Office Address: Associate Professor Institute of Shahjalal University of Science and Technology, Sylhet-3114, Bangladesh
  • Phone:
  • 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. 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

Previous Research Project

  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Developing a Lip Reading dataset and a System in Bangla Period: 2023-2024; Funded by: SUST Research Centre, SUST, Sylhet, Bangladesh. Responsibility: Principal Investigator
  • Developing an EEG Dataset (EmoEG) by Comparative Analysis of Brain Waves for Different Emotional States. Responsibility: Thesis Supervisor and project investigator.

Journal Publish

  • 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. 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.
  • 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. 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.
  • 5. 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
  • 6. 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
  • 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. Technological Developments in Networking, Education and Automation. Springer, Dordrecht.

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

Conference

  • 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,
  • 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 - 2023
  • Assistant Provost, Begum Fazilatunnesa Mujib Hall, March 2023-June 2024

Graduate Supervision

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