Vaishnav Kameswaran
Assistant Professor of Human-Computer Interaction
Research Interests
Professor Kameswaran's teaching and research interests span Human-Computer Interaction and Accessibility. His work explores the socio-technical dimensions of access and examines how novel technologies can center the capabilities of people with disabilities. He uses community-based participatory research (CBPR) and qualitative methods to center community knowledge and create sustainable interventions.
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Prior to joining MBZUAI, Professor Kameswaran was a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Values-Centered Artificial Intelligence (VCAI) initiative at the University of Maryland, College Park. He has also held research roles at Microsoft Research and Google Research, where his work informed the development of Soundscape and Palm2 respectively.
- UMSI Dissertation Fellow, University of Michigan.
- Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Michigan.
- Ph.D. in Information from the University of Michigan.
- Master of Science in Information from the University of Michigan.
- Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and Engineering from Ramaiah Institute of Technology.
- Finalist, Diana Forsythe Award, American Medical Informatics Association, 2025.
- Diversity and Inclusion Award, ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, 2021.
- Best Paper Award, ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, 2018.
- Best Paper Honorable Mention Award, ACM Conference on Computer-Human Interaction, 2018.
- Lining Wang, Vaishnav Kameswaran, Hernisa Kacorri: "Toward A Taxonomy of Algorithmic Harms for Disability: A Systematic Review." In Proceedings of the 8th AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics and Society (AIES '25). Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence/Association for Computing Machinery, 2025.
- Vaishnav Kameswaran, Jerry Robinson, Nithya Sambasivan, Gaurav Aggarwal, Meredith Ringel Morris: "Help and the Social Construction of Access." In Proceedings of the 26th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS '24). Association for Computing Machinery, 2024.
- Vaishnav Kameswaran, Vidhya Yellareddy, and Megh Marathe: "Advocacy as Access Work: How People with Visual Impairments Gain Access to Digital Banking." In Proceedings of ACM Human-Computer Interaction (CSCW '23), 2023.