I’m Vedant Das Swain, a Distinguished Research Fellow in Human-Computer Interaction and Personal Health Informatics at Northeastern University. I am interested in improving workers’ understandings of themselves by leveraging methods at the intersection of ubiquitous computing and computational social science.
Humans interact with technologies in many ways that are impreceptible to them. Since, computers and computing have begun to engulf people’s reality, they provide a unique perspective to understand human behavior. In my research, I investigate applications of technologies embedded in everyday life as passive —unobtrusive, continuous, and automatic— sources of behavioral data. One facet of my research studies the ecological validity of passive sensing applications for analyzing human dynamics and informing interventions for wellbeing. A complementary facet of my research is to study the societal adoption of these passive sensing by critically inquiring how the data is generated, modelled, and situated among stakeholders. In particular, I investigate approaches to improve the future of work and campus life. My research has been published at top-tier computer science venues like CHI, CSCW, UbiComp/IMWUT, ACII, and IEEE CogMI. My publication at CHI 2022 won a Best Paper Honorable Mention award. I have also received individual awards, namely the Gaetano Borriello Outstanding Student Award at UbiComp 2022 and the GVU Foley Scholar Award. My research has been supported by IARPA, NSF, CDC, ORNL, and Semiconductor Research Corporation. I have also collaborated with Microsoft Research to make near-term impact in the fast-changing future of work.
I have a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Georgia Institute of Technology, where I was co-advised by Prof. Munmun De Choudhury and Prof. Gregory D. Abowd. I completed my M.S. in Human Computer Interaction from Georgia Tech and my B.Tech in Computer Science & Engineering from IIIT-Delhi.
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Selected Publications
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2024
2023
Vedant Das Swain, Hyeokhyen Kwon, Sonia Sargolzaei, Bahador Saket, Mehrab Bin Morshed, Kathy Tran, Devashru Patel, Yexin Tian, Joshua Philipose, Yulai Cui, Thomas Plötz, Munmun De Choudhury, Gregory D. Abowd
EPJ Data Sc. 2023 | Link | PDF
Vedant Das Swain, Jiajia Xie, Maanit Madan, Sonia Sargolzaei, James Cai, Munmun De Choudhury, Gregory D. Abowd, Lauren N. Steimle, B. Aditya Prakash
Frontiers DH 2023 | Link | PDF
2022
Vedant Das Swain, Victor Chen, Shrija Mishra, Stephen M. Mattingly, Gregory D. Abowd, Munmun De Choudhury
CHI 2022 | Link | PDF
Kaely Hall, Dong Whi Yoo, Wenrui Zhang, Mehrab Bin Morshed, Vedant Das Swain, Gregory D. Abowd, Munmun De Choudhury, Alex Endert, John Stasko, Jennifer G Kim
CHI 2022 | Link
2021
Koustuv Saha, Ted Grover, Stephen M. Mattingly, Vedant Das Swain, Pranshu Gupta, Gonzalo J. Martinez, Pablo Robles-Granda, Gloria Mark, Aaron Striegel, Munmun De Choudhury
IMWUT 2021 | Link
2020
2019
Vedant Das Swain, Koustuv Saha, Hemang Rajvanshy, Anusha Sirigiri, Julie M. Gregg, Suwen Lin, Gonzalo J. Martinez, Stephen M. Mattingly, Shayan Mirjafari, Raghu Mulukutla, Subigya Nepal, Kari Anne Nies, Manikanta D. Reddy, Pablo Robles-Granda, Andrew T. Campbell, Nitesh V. Chawla, Sidney K. D'Mello, Anind K. Dey, Kaifeng Jiang, Qiang Liu, Gloria Mark, Ed Moskal, Aaron Striegel, Louis Tay, Gregory D. Abowd, Munmun De Choudhury
IMWUT 2019 | Link | PDF
Shayan Mirjafari, Kizito Masaba, Ted Grover, Weichen Wang, W., Pino Audia, Andrew T. Campbell, Nitesh V. Chawla, Vedant Das Swain, Munmun De Choudhury, Anind K. Dey, Sidney K. D'Mello, Ge Gao, Julie M. Gregg, Krithika Jagannath, Kaifeng Jiang, Suwen Lin, Qiang Liu, Gloria Mark, Gonzalo J. Martinez, Stephen M. Mattingly, Edward Moskal, Raghu Mulukutla, Subigya Nepal, Kari Nies, Manikanta D. Reddy, Pablo Robles-Granda, Koustuv Saha, Anusha Sirigiri, Aaron Striegel
IMWUT 2019 | Link
Stephen M. Mattingly, Julie M. Gregg, Pino Audia, Ayse Elvan Bayraktaraglu, Andrew T. Campbell, Nitesh V. Chawla, Vedant Das Swain, Munmun De Choudhury, Sidney K. D'Mello, Anind K. Dey, Ge Gao, Krithika Jagannath, Kaifeng Jiang, Suwen Lin, Qiang Liu, Gloria Mark, Gonzalo J. Martinez, Kizito Masaba, Shayan Mirjafari, Edward Moskal, Raghu Mulukutla, Kari Nies, Manikanta D. Reddy, Pablo Robles-Granda, Koustuv Saha, Anusha Sirigiri, Aaron Striegel
CHI 2019 | Link
Vedant Das Swain, Manikanta D. Reddy, Kari Anne Nies, Louis Tay, Munmun De Choudhury, Gregory D. Abowd
CSCW 2019 | Link | PDF
Koustuv Saha, Manikanta D. Reddy, Vedant Das Swain, Julie M. Gregg, Ted Grover, Suwen Lin, Gonzalo J. Martinez, Stephen M. Mattingly, Shayan Mirjafari, Raghu Mulukutla, Kari Anne Nies, Pablo Robles-Granda, Anusha Sirigiri, Dong Whi Yoo, Pino Audia, Andrew T. Campbell, Nitesh V. Chawla, Sidney K. D'Mello, Anind K. Dey, Kaifeng Jiang, Qiang Liu, Gloria Mark, Ed Moskal, Aaron Striegel, Munmun De Choudhury
ACII 2019 | Link
2018
Students
My fellowship allows me to directly supervise, and even fund, student researchers on projects where I am the Principal Investigator. If you are interested to work with me, drop me an email sharing your expertise and what interests you about my research.
- Alex Jeon — Research Engineer
- Joy Zhong — Research Assistant
- Olivia Wang — UX Design & Research Co-op
- Win Tongtawee — Full Stack Developer Co-op
- Joyce Hsu — Khoury Research Apprentice
Collaborators
- Varun Mishra (Northeastern University)
- Javier Hernandez (Microsoft)
- Uichin Lee (KAIST)
- Nick Jacobson (Dartmouth)
- Koustuv Saha (UIUC)
- Jennifer G. Kim (Georgia Tech)