I’m Vedant Das Swain, a Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellow in Human-Computer Interaction and Personal Health Informatics at Northeastern University. I study digital applications, models, and infrastructures to change the way we work with the goal of improving worker mental health and ensuring sustainable performance.
Computing and AI is a major component of how we work. And how we work is a major component of our mental health. I believe that we need to redesign these digital technologies for work to move beyond task completion and production. We need to devise new tools that help workers manage their wellbeing, choose healthier behaviors, and even select better job roles. In my research, I take a human-centered approach by identifying the challenges and opportunities for societal adoption of intelligent systems for worker wellbeing; I leverage theories from organizational sciences to inform new behavioral models of understanding worker mental health; and I investigate novel digital interventions and reflection applications for better work behaviors. Together, my studies reveal the importance of often ignored social dynamics at work and propose novel solutions to empower workers to take better decisions regarding their work goals. I have authored several papers at top-tier venues for Human-Centered Computing, including CHI, CSCW, UbiComp/IMWUT. My papers have received awards at CHI 2022 (top 5%) and CHI 2024 (top 1%). I have also been honored with the Gaetano Borriello Outstanding Student Award and the GVU Foley Scholar Award. My research has been supported by IARPA, NSF, CDC, ORNL, and Semiconductor Research Corporation. I serve as the lead PI on grants from NIDA/NIH and Microsoft.
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)