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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
Dates
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
Dates
11/10/2021 to 30/06/2022
Publications
Recent publications
05/06/2025Combining Normative Ethics Principles to Learn Prosocial Behaviour
Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS)
EnvCraft: A Modular Environment Design Framework for Investigating Prosocial Incentives
Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Citizen-Centric Multiagent Systems (CMAS)
Operationalising Rawlsian Ethics for Fairness in Norm-Learning Agents
AAAI-25 Technical Tracks 25
Understanding the Gap Between User Expectations and Technology Performance
CHI EA '25
A Metric for the Balance of Information in Graph Learning
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
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