Faculty Profile

Dr. Shazia Nasreen is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology at St. Xavier's University, Kolkata, and a Clinical Psychologist registered with the Rehabilitation Council of India. She recently completed her Ph.D. in Cognitive Psychology at the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur.

Her research focuses on cognitive psychology, clinical psychology, and cognitive neuroscience, with a particular interest in eye-tracking methodologies to understand visual perception, attention, and cognitive processing. She has also contributed to interdisciplinary research in psycho-oncology, speech-based depression detection, and technology-assisted interventions for dyslexia. Her work has been published in peer-reviewed journals and presented at national and international conferences.

Dr. Nasreen is a recipient of the Sushobhit Yadav Young Clinical Psychologist Award (2024), the Best Paper Award at the 6th International Conference on Mental Healthcare in India (2024), and the Dr. Saugata Basu Memorial Award for Outstanding Research in Clinical Psychology. She is also a Fellow in Psycho-Oncology from Tata Medical Center, Kolkata. Her research interests include eye tracking, visual cognition, cognitive assessment, and the application of technology in psychological science.

• PhD (Cognitive Psychology) 2026, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur
• M.Phil (Clinical Psychology), University College of Science, Technology and Agriculture, University of Calcutta
• Masters in Psychology (Applied Psychology), University College of Science, Technology and Agriculture, University of Calcutta
• Bachelors (Hons.) in Psychology, Loreto College, University of Calcutta

• Visiting Professor at Sarojini Naidu College for Women, from March, 2026 – July, 2026
• Teaching Assistant on National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning (NPTEL), from 2020-2025

• Nasreen, S., Roy, A. K., & Guha, R. (2025). Exploring Creativity Through the Eyes: A New Framework Using Rorschach Inkblot Test Metrics. Annals of Neurosciences, 09727531251364955. https://doi.org/10.1177/09727531251364955
• Nasreen, S., Roy, A. K., Guha, R., & Majumdar, D. (2023, October). How Anxious Am ‘Eye’: An Eye Tracking Study. In IECON 2023-49th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society (pp. 1-5). IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/IECON51785.2023.10312467
• Nasreen, S., Roy, A. K., & Guha, R. (2022, July). Exploring ‘Little-c’Creativity Through Eye-parameters. In 2022 44th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine & Biology Society (EMBC) (pp. 1078-1081). IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/EMBC48229.2022.9871652
• Nasreen, S., Podder, P., Das, S., & Dogra, A. K. (2016). Impact of Music Training on Cognition of Children. Indian Journal of Clinical Psychology, 43(2), 137-146.
• Maji, B., Guha, R., Routray, A., Nasreen, S., & Majumdar, D. (2024). Investigation of layer-wise speech representations in self-supervised learning models: A cross-lingual study in detecting depression. In Proc. Interspeech 2024 (pp. 3020-3024). https://doi.org/10.21437/Interspeech.2024-1737

• 2nd position for Dr. Saugata Basu Memorial Award in recognition of Outstanding Research in Clinical Psychology at the two-day International Conference on “Decoding the Mind: From Behavioural Sciences to Computational Neuroscience – Clinical, Rehabilitation and AI Perspective, Behavioural and Experimental Lab, University of Calcutta
• Sushobhit Yadav Young Clinical Psychologist Award (2024) by Indian Mental Health and Research Centre (IMHRC), Lucknow
• Best Paper Award for oral presentation for presenting ‘Exploring Creativity through the Eyes: New Framework Using Rorschach Inkblot Test Metrics’, at the 6th International Conference MENTAL HEALTHCARE IN INDIA: BASICS & BEYOND, Lucknow, India (2024)
• Invited as an assisted speaker at the Applied Psychology Department, University of Calcutta, on ‘Eye tracking in the field of psychology’(2023)
• Invited speaker at the IEEE EMBS Madras section for an International Colloquium on "Healthcare and Medical Engineering: Research, Innovations and Applications" that occurred on 24th September (2021)
• Panelist for State Bank of India Youth for India Fellowship (2018)
• Conferred Research Presentation Award for best intra-departmental research presentation by Centre for Educational Technology, IIT Kharagpur (2019)
• Fellowship in Psycho-Oncology, Tata Medical Center (2017)
• Diploma in Graphology from the Institute of Graphology, Kolkata (2010)
• International English Language Testing System (IELTS) proficient (2013)
• Certificate of competency in French Language (2008)
• Certificate of Merit in Law and Psychology, Cambridge International School (2007-2008)