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.
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.
Recent work
Research Group for 2025 Summer (May-August)
| Mutaz Hennawi | What do older adults want/need from cognitive performance assessment tools? |
| Nastaran Jadidi | How do pregnant women make high-stakes personally-meaningful decisions? |
| Shreeman Gautam | Does repurposing bioinformatics tools/datasets for patient-led research work? |
| Sujit K Kamaraj | TBD |
| 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) | How to co-design motor and tremor assessment tasks with busy specialists? |
| Megan Genetti (CE) | Working with Nastaran |
| Hannah Larsen (CS) | Do people perform similarly on digital cognitive assessment tasks six months apart? |
| Alex Goff (CS) | Can speech-based tools automatically tracking some cognitive impairments? |
| Yuvraj Malik (CS) | How fast do people demonstrate practice 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 |
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| Ezekiel 'Zeak' Jaramillo | (Chair) BS CS: TBD |
| Megan Genetti | (Chair) BS CE: TBD |
| Caden Hamrick | PhD ECE: TBD (Advisor: Jacob George) |
2024 Spring
2023 Fall
Group Alumni
| 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 |
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| 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)
| 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 |
vineet.pandey@utah.edu
Curriculum vitae
Teaching
Fall 2025, 2024, 2023
BS, MSD
CS 3540 Designing Human-Centered Systems: Principles, practices, and prototypes in human-computer interaction
(Course on Canvas)
HEB 2004 (Henry Eyring Chemistry Building)
Office Hours M,W After class (Walk with me!)
Spring 2025 PhD, MS, BS
CS 5968 / 6968 Designing Digital Health Systems
Multidisciplinary class on building tools and platforms for doctors, patients, caregivers. (Link)
Spring 2024 PhD, MS, BS
CS 5968 / 6968 Designing Citizen Science Systems
Multidisciplinary class on designing tools and techniques for beneficial public participation in science (Link)
Students (at Utah): Our research group is building novel systems for citizen science and digital health / telemedicine with school- and university-wide collaborators. We have plenty of opportunities to work with communties, do healthcare research, and code code code.
PhD students (CS or other depts): How might I help with your research? Please email me a summary (three lines to a page), then we'll meet over coffee.
MS, BS students: Interested in doing HCI research? Please email me your interests, skills you'd like to develop, and hopes in working with me. I advise undergrad thesis work across CS and DS (and more).
The original page was designed by Manjeet Singh Sawhney.