Hello, I'm Vineet Pandey.

I'm a Human-computer interaction researcher.
I design, build, and evaluate social computing systems.

The current approach of relying solely on institutional experts to create knowledge is insufficient to meet the scale, diversity, and novelty of people’s needs. To answer this fundamental societal and intellectual challenge, I have created techniques and built systems that embody Community Computation. Community Computation provides an alternate vision for massive internet platforms where global communities need not just donate data to answer experts’ questions. Rather, they perform complex knowledge work themselves.

I'm on the job market for academic, research, or design positions.
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Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard University

With Krzysztof Gajos (Computer Science, Harvard) and Dr. Anoopum Gupta (Laboratory for Deep Neurophenotyping, Neurology, Mass General Hospital), I'm developing platforms that support people with disorders, caregivers, and clinical researchers in creating novel, useful knowledge about rare disorders. Our current web-based tool accurately and reliably estimates motor impairments in a neurological rare disorder with a few minutes of unsupervised use from home.

Ph.D. in Computer Science from UC San Diego.

My dissertation research created scalable techniques for integrating learning and working for complex activities like scientific experimentation. My research platform Gut Instinct has been used by over 600 people from 30 countries to create novel hypotheses, design experiments, and replicate known results. I was advised by Scott Klemmer at UC San Diego Design Lab. I collaborated closely with Rob Knight and the excellent community of microbiome researchers and fermenters in San Diego.