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.
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.
Research Group for 2024 Fall (August-December)
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) | Designing software for validated remote health assessments |
Gunasekhar Athuluri (CS MS) | Visualizing institutional datasets for patient-led research |
BS students | |
Megan Genetti (CE) | |
Yuvraj Malik (CS) | |
Kunal Kamtekar (CS) |
2024 Spring
2023 Fall
Alumni
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
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 |
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