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Biography
Nirav is a Senior Lecturer in Artificial Intelligence in the School of Computer Science at the University of Bristol. His research interests are in AI, intelligent agents, and multiagent systems with an emphasis on ethics, cybersecurity, and privacy.
Research interests
- Artificial Intelligence
- Multiagent Systems, and Intelligent Agents
- Ethics, Privacy, and Cybersecurity
- Social Computing
Projects and supervisions
Research projects
Equitable Privacy
Principal Investigator
Role
Co-Investigator
Description
Digital technologies are becoming pervasive in society, from online shopping and social interactions through to finance, banking, transportation. With a future vision of smart cities, driven by a real-time, data-driven,…Managing organisational unit
Department of Computer ScienceDates
01/09/2022 to 28/02/2026
Strategies for Improving the Sensing Performance of Personalised Therapeutic Products for People Living with Dementia
Principal Investigator
Description
This project seeks to develop a soft robotic device as a therapeutic product with intelligent sensing to support people living with dementia. In this project, we systematically explore and develop…Managing organisational unit
Department of Computer ScienceDates
11/10/2021 to 30/06/2022
Publications
Selected publications
23/07/2022Socially Intelligent Genetic Agents for the Emergence of Explicit Norms
Proceedings of the 31st International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI)
Macro Ethics for Governing Equitable Sociotechnical Systems
AAMAS '22
Elessar: Ethics in Norm-Aware Agents
Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and MultiAgent Systems (AAMAS)
Prosocial Norm Emergence in Multiagent Systems
ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems (TAAS)
New Foundations of Ethical Multiagent Systems
Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and MultiAgent Systems (AAMAS)
Recent publications
01/05/2024Norm Enforcement with a Soft Touch: Faster Emergence, Happier Agents
Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS)
Social Value Orientation and Integral Emotions in Multi-Agent Systems
Coordination, Organizations, Institutions, Norms, and Ethics for Governance of Multi-Agent Systems XVI
Towards Equitable Privacy
Commitment-Based Negotiation Semantics for Accountability in Multi-Agent Systems
Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence
Understanding dynamics of polarization via multiagent social simulation
AI & Society: Journal of Knowledge, Culture and Communication
Teaching
2023/24
COMS10016: Imperative and Functional Programming
COMS30014: Artificial Intelligence
COMS30050: Applied Data Science
2022/23
COMS10016: Imperative and Functional Programming
COMS30014: Artificial Intelligence
COMS30050: Applied Data Science
2021/22
COMS10016: Imperative and Functional Programming
COMS30014: Artificial Intelligence
COMS30050: Applied Data Science
2020/21
COMS30014: Artificial Intelligence
COMS30050: Applied Data Science
