Avipsa was born in Kolkata, India. She has lived and worked in a number of different cities like Bangalore (India), Muenster, Stuttgart (Germany) before moving to Tempe. She completed her Bachelors degree in Computer Science from University of Calcutta and then moved on to complete her masters degree in Geoinformatics from Wilhelms Westfaelische Universitaet in Muenster. Her research primarily focuses on developing computational & statistical methods to solve a number of spatial-temporal problems -  identifying trends in active transportation (eg: bicycling) patterns in urban areas from crowdsourced data, understanding movement behavior in terrestrial animals (grizzly bears) and performing image segmentation by integrating multiple sensor modalities (LiDAR, Thermal Imagery) for terrestrial object detection. In her spare time she likes to travel, read and learn about different regional cultures across the world. She is also interested in photography, music and dance.