BBL Speaker Series: Vedant Das Swain: Talk Title TBA

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Speaker: Vedant Das Swain, Assistant Professor, New York University.

Location: IRB 4105 and Zoom

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Bio:  Vedant Das Swain is an Assistant Professor at NYU. His research focuses on transforming digital applications, behavioral models, and infrastructures to enhance workers’ behavioral health. Dr. Das Swain aims to build digital work technologies to support wellbeing and promote healthier performance by mitigating invisible labor, emotional fatigue, and burnout. His human-centered research approach prioritizes applications that workers want to adopt and continually use. He integrates organizational science theories to conceive new data-driven understandings of worker behavior and explores innovative digital interventions to promote healthy integrations between human organizations and cutting-edge technology (e.g., sensors, social media, and AI applications). Before joining NYU, he was a Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellow at Northeastern University. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science and a MS in Human-Computer Interaction from Georgia Institute of Technology. He has published extensively in top-tier Human-Centered Computing venues such as CHI, CSCW, and UbiComp/IMWUT. His papers have received prestigious awards, including top honors at CHI 2022 and CHI 2024. He has been recognized with the Gaetano Borriello Outstanding Student Award and the GVU Foley Scholar Award. His research is supported by IARPA, NSF, CDC, ORNL, and Semiconductor Research Corporation, and has been lead PI on grants from NIDA/NIH and Microsoft.