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.

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 climate change. 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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Research Group for 2024 Fall (August-December)

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Mutaz Hennawi   Form Factors' Impact on Motor Performance in Dragging Tasks

Janet Ikhile         What do Neurologists Need from Digital Health Tools?

Sujit K Kamaraj   Assessing Cognition with Fine-finger Tracking on Smartphones

Nastaran Jadidi  Sociologically-grounded Techniques to Decipher Online Conversations

Jenny (Yijun) Zhan (MSD)        Software Architecture for Patient-Caregiver Co-produced Knowledge

Gunasekhar Athuluri (CS MS)  Platforms for Community-led Research

Megan Genetti (CE BS)

Yuvraj Malik (CS BS)

Kunal Kamtekar (CS BS)

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Alumni
Dhruvil Shah (CS MS)
Belen Edgar (CS BS)         Summer 24, Northwestern, NSF Research Experiences for Undergrads
Timi Omoteso (CS BS)      Summer 24, Georgia Tech, NSF Research Experiences for Undergrads
Lincoln Gierisch                Summer 24, Price College High School Summer Research Internship
Silas Fay                            Summer 24, Price College High School Summer Research Internship
Logan Wood (CS BS)        Spring 24,    Engineering Scholars Program
Lavanya Mohnani              Spring 24,    University of Utah Science & Engineering Fair mentoring
Committee member
Maxim Lisnic   Computing PhD: Data-driven Misinformation
Sujit K. Kamaraj CS MS: Cognitive assessments with smartphones
Brennan Cook Data Science BS: Optimal Strategies in Basketball
Noelle Brown  Computing PhD: Ethics in Computing → Assistant Professor/Lecturer, Univ of Utah
Semil Jain       CS MS: Citizen Climate Science on CloudLab

Our Group