Hello, I'm Vineet Pandey.

I'm a human-computer interaction (HCI) researcher and an Assistant Professor in the Kahlert School of Computing at the University of Utah. Starting Spring 2025, I am also a Responsible AI Faculty Fellow at the university.

I build human-centered computing tools that expand and improve the interface between communities and institutional experts, especially in science and medicine. My research supports motivated communities in performing scientific and medical work that is personally meaningful, institutionally relevant, and that advances our understanding of health, disorders, and public involvement in institutional processes. By intervening at three levels––individual tools, social platforms, and institutional processes––my research finds direct applications in digital health and citizen science.

All of my research builds on collaborations with real-world communities and institutional experts to design new ways of creating and acting on evidence.

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As a Postdoctoral researcher at MIT (2022-23), I explored novel characterizations of online social movements around clinical trials in neurodegenerative disorders - in collaboration with Arvind Satyanarayan (HCI, Visualization) and Graham Jones (Cultural and Linguistic Anthropology).
(First paper in re-preparation)

As a Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard University (2020-22), I collaborated with neurologists at Mass General Hospital and multiple rare disorder communities (SCAs, ALS, Ataxia-telangiectasia) to advance our understanding of neurological disorders with remote health assessment tools.
(ACM TACCESS 2023, The Cerebellum 2022, Brain Communications 2023).

During my Ph.D. in Computer Science from UC San Diego (2013-19), I worked with microbiologists at the American Gut Project and fermenters to support community-led experimentation with novel online platforms. I was lucky to receive wisdom from Jim Hollan, Rob Knight, and Don Norman.
(ACM CHI 2021, Learning@Scale 2018, CHI 2017, Defense Video)

My dissertation was awarded the 2019 School of Engineering Henry Booker Award for Exemplary Ethical Engineering.

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Recent work

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Nastaran Jadidi	Rhetoric and linguistic strategies in an online advocacy movement. ACM Collective Intelligence 2025
In Submission
Janet Ikhile	Understanding Specialists’ Workflow and Decision-Making for Designing Digital Tools. ACM Transactions on Computing for Healthcare Special Issue on Human Centered Computing in Healthcare, 2025
Sujit K. Kamaraj	Breaking Down Cognitive Activity during Errors with Fine-Finger Tracking on Touchscreens. ACM Transactions on Computing for Healthcare Special Issue on Human Centered Computing in Healthcare, 2025

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Research Group for 2025 Summer (May-August)

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Mutaz Hennawi	What do older adults want/need from cognitive performance assessment tools?
Sujit K Kamaraj	How do communities repurpose social platforms for scientific work?
Nastaran Jadidi	How do pregnant women make high-stakes personally-meaningful decisions?
Shreeman Gautam	Does repurposing bioinformatics tools/datasets for patient-led research work?
Carly Atwell (Comp BS MS 25)	How does a rare disorder community engage with regulators using institutional platforms?
Asma Khan (CS BS MS 26)	How do movement disorder experts collaborate and co-ordinate with other experts?
BS students
Vivian Zheng	(Stony Brook, NSF REU program) TBD
Megan Genetti (CE)	Working with Nastaran
Hannah Larsen (CS)	Working with Sujit
Alex Goff (CS)	Building speech-based tools for remote tracking of cognitive impairments
Yuvraj Malik (CS)	Assessing learning effects in touchscreen-based remote health assessments
High school	Summer interns from Hillcrest High School via Price College High School Summer Research Internship
Om Sanghvi	Assessing tremors using touchscreen-based tasks
Kevin Siju Eappen	Assessing tremors using touchscreen-based tasks
Fall 2025 Committees
Ezekiel 'Zeak' Jaramillo	(Chair) BS CS: TBD
Megan Genetti	(Chair) BS CE: TBD
Caden Hamrick	PhD ECE: TBD (Advisor: Jacob George)

Group Alumni

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MS students
Jenny Yijun Zhan (MSD)	Designing software for caregiver-validated remote health assessments
Gunasekhar Athuluri (CS MS)	Visualizing institutional datasets for patient-led hypothesis-testing
BS students
Belen Edgar (CS)	Summer 24, Northwestern, NSF Research Experiences for Undergrads
Timi Omoteso (CS)	Summer 24, Georgia Tech, NSF Research Experiences for Undergrads
Logan Wood (CS)	Spring 24,    Engineering Scholars Program
Lincoln Gierisch	Summer 24, Price College High School Summer Research Internship
Silas Fay	Summer 24, Price College High School Summer Research Internship
Lavanya Mohnani	Spring 24,    University of Utah Science & Engineering Fair mentoring

Committee member (PhD, MS, BS)

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Maxim Lisnic	Computing PhD: Data-driven Misinformation (Advisors: Marina Kogan, Alex Lex) → Assistant Professor, Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI), MA
Noelle Brown	Computing PhD: Ethics in Computing (Advisor: Eliane Wiese) → Assistant Professor/Lecturer, University of Utah
Sujit K. Kamaraj	(Chair) CS MS: Crossroads: Understanding Cognitive Activity through Fine-Finger Tracking on Touchscreens
Naman Rastogi	CS MS: Platform Migration in Online Communities
Semil Jain	CS MS: Citizen Science on CloudLab
Khawar Murad Ahmed	Computing MS: Mixed-methods studies for characterizing online discourse
Brennan Cook	(Chair) Data Science BS: Optimal Strategies in Basketball