Dr Sadia Shakil

Dr. Sadia Shakil is a Research Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering at the Chinese
University of Hong Kong (CUHK). Before joining CUHK she has worked as a Senior
Researcher in the Faculty of Information Technology at Brno University of Technology in
Czech Republic, as an Adjunct Research Associate with the Turner Institute of Brain & Mental
Health at the Monash University in Australia, and as an Assistant Professor of Electrical
Engineering at the Institute of Space Technology in Pakistan. She was the founding director
of the ‘Bio-signal Processing and Computational Neuroscience’ lab at the Institute of Space
Technology in Pakistan and is co-leading the Neurorehabilitation and Robotics lab at CUHK.
Dr. Shakil has successfully supervised theses of more than forty undergraduate and
graduate students.
Dr. Shakil completed her PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Georgia Institute
of Technology after securing a Fulbright Scholarship award. Her focus during PhD was to
analyze and develop algorithms for the study of spatiotemporal dynamics in brain networks.
Dr. Shakil did her postdoctoral fellowship in ‘Computational Connectomics’ from Rotman
Research Institute at the Baycrest Health Sciences in Canada, after securing Schlumberger
Faculty for the Future Fellowship award. During Postdoc, her focus was to understand the
relationship between brain and behavior using brain data collected during music listening.
Dr. Shakil’s research is highly inter- and multi-disciplinary, and she works with multiple
neuroimaging data modalities such MRI, fMRI, and EEG. Her research focus is on integrating
AI and algorithms from various domains to study brain structural and functional dynamics.
She is working on various mental and brain health issues such as stress, stroke, brain tumor,
Alzheimer’s disease, and effects of naturalistic stimuli such as movies on mental health.