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Abira Sengupta
PhD Researcher
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About | Research | Projects | Publications | Teaching | CV |
About Me
Hi, I am Abira. Welcome to my academic webpage. I am a student of Doctoral of Philosophy (PhD) in Multi-Agent System. I work at the Department of Information Science, University of Otago, NZ. My research interests focus on developing a generalised reasoning of explicit representation of expectations in a multi-agent-system to solve the collective action problem.Earlier in my pre-Doctoral work I focused on Computer Vision and Machine Learning and deep learning to face recognition for biometrics. However, I was exploring other areas of computer vision and upcoming machine learning methods.
My birthplace is Kolkata. In 2019, I relocated to Dunedin, New Zealand, to pursue my doctorate. In my spare time, I enjoy listening to music and gardening. I also enjoy riding my bike and learning new things.
Research Projects[Top]
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Selected Publications [Top]
Conferences
- Abira Sengupta, Stephen Cranefield, Jeremy Pitt, "Generalising Axelrod's Metanorms Game through the use of explicit domain-specific norms", COINE 2023.
- Nuzla Ismail, Abira Sengupta,, Brendon Woodford, Sherlock Licorish, "A Comparison of One-class versus Two-class Machine Learning Models for Wildfire Prediction in California", AusDM 2023.
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- Abira Sengupta, Stephen Cranefield, Jeremy Pitt, "Solving social dilemmas by reasoning about expectations", COINE 2021: 1-18.
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- Abira Sengupta, Saurabh Malgaonkar, Nikita Mehrotra, Tejas Hirave, " A Preliminary Investigation of LEACH, TEEN and DEEC Towards Wireless Sensing Application", ICCICT 2021.
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- Abhijit Das, Abira Sengupta, Umapada Pal, and Michael Blumenstein, "More Realistic and Efficient Face-Based Mobile Authentication using CNN", IJCNN, 2018.
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- Nabin Sharma, Abira Sengupta, Rabi Sharma, Umapada Pal, and Michael Blumenstein, "Pincode detection using Deep CNN for postal Automation", IVCNZ, 2017.
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- Abhijit Das, Abira Sengupta, Umapada Pal, and Michael Blumenstein, "Linking Challenging Face Images Captured from the Optical Phenomenon in the Wild for Forensic Science", IJCB, 2017.
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Posters
- Abira Sengupta, Stephen Cranefield, Jeremy Pitt, "Generic representation of expectations can help computational agents to solve social dilemmas", AIRA, NZ, https://www.ainz.ai/2022-posters
Recent Awards and Funding
- [1] Commerce Research Grant.
- [2] Marsden scholarship for 3 years PhD studies in NZ (2019 - 2022).
- [3] Technical Education Quality Improvement Programme for MTech scholarship in India (2012 - 2013).
Teaching
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[1] Tutor/Demonstrator at the University of Otago, NZ (2019 to 2023) | Part-time Faculty
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