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 social computing systems 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. My work 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 Summer (May-August)
Join us for lunch at 1pm! Most weekdays near MEB 3112. Send me an email so we wait for you.

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Graduate students
Mutaz Hennawi   Designing Platforms for Older Adults Beyond Stereotypes
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
Summer Visitors, Interns
Kunal Kamtekar (CS BS)    Assessing Tremors using Smartphones
Belen Edgar (CS BS)        from Northwestern, via NSF REU
Timi Omoteso (CS BS)     from Georgia Tech, via NSF REU
Jenny (Yijun) Zhan (MSD) Software Architecture for Patient-Caregiver Co-produced Knowledge
Dhruvil Shah (CS MS)       How do Different Communities Use the Same Technology
Lincoln Gierisch               via Price College of Engg High School Summer Research Internship
Silas Fay                           via Price College of Engg High School Summer Research Internship

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Committee member
Noelle Brown  Computing PhD: Ethics in Computing → Assistant Professor/Lecturer, Univ of Utah
Maxim Lisnic   Computing PhD: Data-driven Misinformation
Semil Jain       CS MS: Citizen Climate Science on CloudLab
Brennan Cook Data Science BS: Optimal Strategies in Basketball

Our Group