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, Brain Communications 2023, The Cerebellum 2022).

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, ACM CHI 2017, Defense Video).

My dissertation was awarded the 2019 School of Engineering Henry Booker Award for Exemplary Ethical Engineering.

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Recent work

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In Submission
Janet Ikhile	Paper: Understanding Specialists’ Workflow and Decision-Making for Designing Digital Tools
Upcoming
Sujit K. Kamaraj	Paper: Investigating the Process-Platform Gap: How a Patient Community’s Efforts Teach us About the Limits of Social Platforms in Supporting Institutional Processes. Upcoming at ACM GROUP 2027
Published/Presented
2025
Nastaran Jadidi	Paper: Rhetoric and linguistic strategies in an online advocacy movement ACM Collective Intelligence 2025, San Diego, CA
Carly, Nastaran	Extended Abstract: Left to their own devices: How people with ALS use digital platforms as advocacy space. ACM ASSETS 2025, Denver, CO First Prize in Posters, Data Exploration and Learning for Precision Health Intelligence DELPHI Symposium, University of Utah
Janet Ikhile	Abstract: Supporting Movement Disorders Specialists with Digital Tools that Integrate with their Workflows. Movement Disorder Society International Congress 2025, Honolulu, HI
Nastaran, Sujit	Abstracts/Posters: Engaging scientific authority for participatory decision-making + Cognitive Profiles Using Fine-Finger Performance on Touchscreens. Conference for Advancing Participatory Sciences 2025, Portland, OR
Nastaran, Carly, Asma, Sujit	Abstract/Poster: One Size Does Not Fit All: Two Approaches to Better Support Women in Understanding and Managing their Health. First Prize in Posters, Women's Health Symposium, University of Utah
2024
Nastaran Jadidi	Abstract: A spectrum of stance: How non-expert communities communicate with institutional experts on digital platforms. 8th Digital Humanities Utah Symposium (DHU8) 2024, Salt Lake City, UT

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Research Group for 2026 Spring (Jan-May)

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PhD students
Sujit K Kamaraj (web) 2025-	How do design instructors’ expectations of GenAI translate into classroom practices?
Mutaz Hennawi (web) 2024-	How might we design smartphone-based interactive tasks to assess cognitive impairments with a few minutes of use?
Janet Ikhile 2023-	Does fine-finger tracking on touchscreens yield reliable, valid, actionable knowledge for telemedicine/remote clinical work?
Nastaran Jadidi (web) 2023-	How might we design sociotechnical systems that support effective deliberation among institutional experts and affected communities?
CS BS MS students
Asma Khan (with Janet)	How do specialists and patients communicate complex, uncertain aspects of movement disorder care?
Jaskehar Sekhon (with Diya, co-mentored with Professor Sara Yeo)	Does AI streamline time-consuming research processes like qualitative data coding?
BS students	For Independent Study (4950) / Thesis (4940 and 4970) / Capstone / UROP / SPUR
Diya Mandot (with Jaskehar) BS CS Honors	Does AI streamline time-consuming research processes like qualitative data coding?
Sieun (Stella) Shin (w/Janet, Nastaran) BS Psych	How do long-term experiences of everyday technology evolve for people with neuro-degenerative disorders?
Yuvraj Malik (with Sujit) (UROP) BS CS	Does repurposing bioinformatics tools/datasets for patient-led research work?