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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Research Group for 2025 Summer (May-August)

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Mutaz Hennawi	Tracking motor/cognitive performance w/fine-finger tracking on phones
Sujit K Kamaraj	Building a design space of systems for participatory science
Nastaran Jadidi	Designing social platforms for beneficial public participation in policymaking
Shreeman Gautam	Repurposing bioinformatics tools for patient-led hypotheses-testing
Carly Atwell (Computing BS MS '25)	Characterizing a rare disorder community's engagement with regulators
Asma Khan (CS BS MS '26)	Designing vignettes for patient and clinical needs for diagnosis and treatment
BS students
Megan Genetti (CE)	TBD
Yuvraj Malik (CS)	TBD

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
Khawar Murad Ahmed	Computing PhD: Mixed-methods studies for characterizing online discourse
Noelle Brown	Computing PhD: Ethics in Computing → Assistant Professor/Lecturer, Univ 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
Ezekiel 'Zeak' Jaramillo	(Chair) CS BS: TBD
Brennan Cook	(Chair) Data Science BS: Optimal Strategies in Basketball