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.

My research has been supported by a Planning Grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Finders Foundry initiative, a three-year faculty fellowship from the Responsible AI Initiative, a seed grant from the Mountain West Microbiome Alliance (MoWMA), two seed grants in healthcare from the Responsible AI Initiative, support for integrating AI in HCI education from the Price College of Engineering, and support from the Office of Undergraduate Research for Summer Program (SPUR) and Semester Undergraduate Research (UROP).

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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. My dissertation was awarded the 2019 School of Engineering Henry Booker Award for Exemplary Ethical Engineering.
(ACM CHI 2021, Learning@Scale 2018, ACM CHI 2017, Defense Video).

I received my BS in Computer Science from BITS Pilani, India. I did my undergraduate thesis developing data structures for representing integers for efficient arithmetic operations in the bit probe model. I was advised by Srinivasa Rao Satti.
(ACM Journal of Discrete Algorithms 2013).

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Recent work

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Published / Presented
2026
Sujit K. Kamaraj	Paper: Crossroads: A Self-Administered Digital Cognitive Assessment for Older Adults via Fine-Finger Tracking on Touchscreen-based Devices. Upcoming at ACM ASSETS 2026, Porto, Portugal
Janet Ikhile	Paper: Understanding Movement Disorder Specialists’ Workflow for Designing Digital Health Tools. ACM Transactions on Computing for Healthcare Special Issue on Human Centered Computing in Healthcare, 2026
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. ACM GROUP 2027, St Simons Island, Georgia, USA
Nastaran, Megan	Workshop: Designing Participatory AI for Pregnancy Information-seeking across Personal Networks and Social Media. Workshop on Participatory AI Across Care, Community, and Policy, ACM CSCW 2026, Salt Lake City, UT, USA
Sujit K. Kamaraj	Workshop: Documentation Traps in Classroom Settings. Workshop on Contribution, Originality, and Accountability in Agent-Mediated Collaboration, ACM CSCW 2026, Salt Lake City, UT, USA
Teddy Wright	Poster: TBD. ACM Collective Intelligence, 2026, Virginia Tech, Washington, D.C, USA
Nastaran, Sujit	Abstracts: The social life of scientific visualizations: How a patient community reframes scientific visualizations for policy advocacy + Teaching with Machines: How Instructors Are Navigating Opportunities and Challenges of Generative AI. 10th Digital Humanities Utah Symposium (DHU10) 2026, Ogden, UT, USA
2025
Nastaran Jadidi	Paper: Rhetoric and linguistic strategies in an online advocacy movement ACM Collective Intelligence 2025, San Diego, CA, USA
Carly, Nastaran	Extended Abstract, Poster: Left to their own devices: How people with ALS use digital platforms as advocacy space. ACM ASSETS 2025, Denver, CO, USA Also, 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, USA
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, USA
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) Fellowship, Responsible AI (link) 2025-	How might AI-assisted tools augment design and human-computer interaction education to make them accessible to all?
Mutaz Hennawi (web) PhD Fellowship, JUST 2024-	How might we design smartphone-based interactive tasks to assess cognitive impairments with a few minutes of use?
Janet Ikhile (web) 2023-	Does fine-finger tracking on touchscreens yield reliable, valid, actionable knowledge for telemedicine and clinical work in movement disorders?
Nastaran Jadidi (web) 2023-	How might we design sociotechnical systems that support effective deliberation among institutional experts and affected communities?
BS students	For Independent Study (4950) / Thesis (4940 and 4970) / Capstone / UROP / SPUR
Sieun (Stella) Shin (with Janet, Nastaran) BS Psych	How do long-term experiences of everyday technology evolve for people with neuro-degenerative disorders?