Education

Dr. Sadia Khalid

Educator | Researcher | Trainer

Lahore · English, Urdu

Biography

Dr. Sadia Khalid is a researcher, educator and trainer with a PhD in Software Engineering from NUST. Her research brings a technical, data-driven approach to workplace stress, resilience and emotional regulation, examining burnout, organizational stressors and gender disparities among professionals, especially in Pakistan’s software industry.

She has taught software engineering for several years and holds multiple academic coordination responsibilities. She also delivers research-informed sessions on stress regulation, boundaries and sustainable performance for academic and professional audiences, including women in STEM.

Areas of expertise

• Organizational Wellbeing
• Stress Regulation
• Software Engineering

Key achievements

• Bridged software engineering and workplace wellbeing: completed a PhD in Software Engineering at NUST (2026) on predicting organizational stress in Pakistan’s software industry, bringing a technical background into a field where it is rarely found.
• Published on burnout, workplace stressors, and gender disparities in work stress.
• Designed and delivered workshops on stress regulation, boundary-setting, and sustainable performance for women in STEM, university faculty, and journalists (2025–2026).
• Held academic leadership roles, including Program Coordinator and Secretary to the Board of Studies and the Graduate Committee.
• Honored as Most Supportive Teacher (2017) and as Best Student of the Graduating Batch (2011), recognition on both sides of the classroom.

International experience

Besides presenting her research at multiple international conferences, Dr. Khalid took part as a partially funded delegate representing Pakistan in the Diplomats’ Training Program, “Role of Data Science in Shaping the Global Environments and Societies”, in Baku, Azerbaijan (2025).

Engagement interests

Speaker · Panelist · TV / Radio · Podcast · Mentor · Training

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