Dr Pankaj Sharma

Kia Ora, Namaste, Welcome,

I am a Research Fellow at the GIScience Team, Department of Environment at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. I am working on a project which focuses on providing Data sovereignty for Indigenous people. We are building a tool which will obfuscate, secure, and notarize spatial datasets.

I graduated with a PhD in Information science from the Otago University in May 2021. In my research, I identified and extracted Decision-making processes from OSS email archives of the Python community. The last of four published papers was at last year’s International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE) – an A* ranked conference. We subsequently examined influence tactics in the Bitcoin community, a paper on which was accepted at the International Conference in Information Systems (ICIS) – another A* ranked conference.