Swarnendu

Swarnendu Moitra

Pre-Doctoral Research Assistant

   Queen Mary University of London.     s.moitra@qmul.ac.uk     smoitra.sll.rs@jadavpuruniversity.in     swarnendu.moitra@gmail.com

NEWS

  • Autumn/Fall 2022
    Presented my research at AMLaP (York) [Poster] & SNL (Philadelphia) [Poster]

  • February 2022
    I was interviewed by DBC News Bangla for their segment on International Mother Language Day, where I spoke about our Reseach on Bangla (SAVANT). Here is the link to the full video.

  • August 2021
    I have joined Morphemes & Meaning Lab at QMUL as a Pre-Doctoral R.A. on the SAVANT (Systematicity and Variation in Word Structure Processing Across Languages: A Neuro-Typology Approach) Project, funded by ERSC.

  • Feb 2021
    (F)ASAL 11 - ACCEPTED : (TALK) Inverse Scope in scrambling languages: the case of Bangla with Ishani Guha(DU) and Paul Marty(UCL)

    • About Me

    I'm a Pre-Doctoral Research assistant working on Bangla at Morphemes & Meaning Lab , QMUL on the SAVANT (Systematicity and Variation in Word Structure Processing Across Languages: A Neuro-Typology Approach) Project, funded by ERSC. with PI Linnaea Stockall and CO-I Dustin A. Chacón .
    I have completed my Masters in Linguistics from Jadavpur University and my undergraduate degree was in Electronics and Communications Engineering.

    Languages

    • Bangla (Native)
    • Hindi (Native)
    • English (Near-Native)
    • German (Basic)

    Skills

    Programming / Markup
    • python
    • Matlab
    • Latex
    • R
    • Javascript
    • HTML
    Experiments
    • jsPsych
    • Linger
    • Ibex Farm
    • OpenSesame
    • PsychoPy

    Employment

    Pre-Doctoral Research Assistant

    Queen Mary University of London

    P.I : Dr. Linnaea Stockall Co-I : Dr. Dustin A. Chacón

    2021 - present

    Visiting RA

    New York University Abu Dhabi

    NeLLab Marantz Group

    Nov 2021 - May 2022

    Education

    M.Phil in Linguistics

    72% - Jadavpur University
    Guide: Prof. Indranil Dutta     2019 - 2021

    M.A in Linguistics

    9.53/10 - Jadavpur University
    Guide: Dr. Samir Karmakar     2017 - 2019

    B.Tech in Electronics and Communications Engineering

    7.68/10 - Dr. Sudhir Chandra Sur Degree Engineering College
    Guide: Dr. Ananya Banerjee     2013 - 2017

    Research Projects

    Effects of scope interactions : An experimental study on Scrambling

    with Dr. Paul Marty (University College London), Dr. Ishani Guha (University of Delhi)

  • Our aim is to experimentally trace the effects of scope interactions between a modified numeral quantifier subject and a universal quantifier object in SOV word order Languages.
  • In this study, we are investigating if object scrambling freezes the scope of an object universal quantifier .


    • Decoding Visual Stimulus from Visual Cortex Data, (Neuromatch Project)

    with Fatemeh Abdollahi (University of Alberta), Rekha Crawford (Swarthmore College) Sreekar Reddy (University of Cincinnati), Pranjal Gupta (Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay)

  • Neuropixel Data from the visual cortex of a mouse (Steinmetz dataset) was decoded using a variety of classifiers such as LDA and Random Forest as a part of group project at Neuromatch Academy.
  • Classifiers were able to predict the stimulus vs. No stimulus conditions as well as left vs. right contrast with reasonable accuracy. Random Forest classifier provided the highest classification accuracy based on average firing rate data compared to other classifiers


    • Manifestation of Agrammatism in Bengali - English Bilingual Aphasia

    with Dr. Arpita Bose, (University of Reading) and Prof. Niladri Sekhar Dash (Indian Statistical Institute - Kolkata)

  • As an intern, my work was to transcribe Audio data of Aphasic Patients (Verbatim) of a Narration task
  • Quantitative Production Analysis also known as QPA was undertaken for analysis of the aphasic sentence production, which was later compared with healthy adult controls.


    • Conferences

  • Moitra, Swarnendu , Dustin A. Chacón and Linnaea Stockall. How long is long? M100 response in Bangla tracks number of phonemes not graphemes or glyphs Society for the Neurobiology of Language [SNL 2022], Loews Hotel, Philadelphia, October, 2022 [Poster]
  • Moitra, Swarnendu , Dustin A. Chacón and Linnaea Stockall. Morphological recomposition and the concrete/abstract distinction in Bangla Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing [AMLaP 2022], University of York, September, 2022 [Poster]
  • Guha, Ishani, Swarnendu Moitra and Paul Marty. Inverse Scope in scrambling languages: the case of Bangla. 39th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL - 39), University of Arizona, April, 2021 [Poster] [Abstract]
  • Guha, Ishani, Swarnendu Moitra and Paul Marty. In search of Inverse Scope in Bangla. 11th (Formal) Approaches to South Asian Languages -((F)ASAL 11), University of Minnesota, March, 2021 [Abstract]

    • Publications

  • Banerjee, Ananya, Swarnendu Moitra , Urmee Karmakar, Sayan Chowdhury, Saheli Datta, Sandipan Debnath, Study and analysis of data encryption techniques and implementation using MATLAB programming. International Journal of Advanced Research in Computer Engineering & Technology (IJARCET) [Link]

    • References


    Prof. Indranil Dutta

    Director,
    School of Languages and Linguistics,
    Jadavpur University
    indranildutta.lnl@jadavpuruniversity.in

    Dr. Dustin A. Chacón

    Research Scientist , Neuroscience of Language Lab (NeLLab)
    New York University, Abu Dhabi
    dustin.alfonso@nyu.edu