Swarnendu Moitra

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

Swarnendu Moitra , Dustin A. Chacón and Linnaea Stockall. How Long is Long? Word length effects in reading correspond to minimal graphemic units: An MEG study in Bangla PLOS ONE 19(4): e0292979, 2024. [Link]

Ananya Banerjee, 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. Linnaea Stockall

Professor, Linguistics and Cognitive Neuroscience,
Queen Mary University of London
United Kingdom
Website | Lab website l.stockall@qmul.ac.uk

Dr Dustin A. Chacón

Assistant professor, ,
Department of Linguistics,
University of Georgia,
United States of America
Website | Lab
dustin.chacon@uga.edu