Varun Mishra
Research Interests
- Ubiquitous computing for mental and behavioral health
- mHealth sensing and intervention
- Digital phenotyping
- Personal health informatics
Education
- PhD in Computer Science, Dartmouth College
- BTech in Computer Science and Engineering, Shiv Nadar University — India
Pronouns
he/him/his
Biography
Varun Mishra is an assistant professor at Northeastern University, holding a joint appointment with the Khoury College of Computer Sciences and the Bouvé College of Health Sciences. His research focuses on leveraging ubiquitous technologies like smartphones and wearables to enable effective digital health interventions for mental and behavioral health outcomes. His research is in the broad field of ubiquitous computing and lies at the intersection of mobile/wearable sensing, human-centered computing, data science, and behavioral science. Mishra’s work is highly interdisciplinary, and he regularly collaborates with clinicians, psychologists, engineers, and other computer scientists to design, build, and deploy the tools and systems needed for their collective research goals.
Mishra received his doctorate in computer science from Dartmouth College and worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the Center for Technology and Behavioral Health (CTBH) in the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth before joining Northeastern.
Research Interests
- Ubiquitous computing for mental and behavioral health
- mHealth sensing and intervention
- Digital phenotyping
- Personal health informatics
Education
- PhD in Computer Science, Dartmouth College
- BTech in Computer Science and Engineering, Shiv Nadar University — India
Pronouns
he/him/his
Biography
Varun Mishra is an assistant professor at Northeastern University, holding a joint appointment with the Khoury College of Computer Sciences and the Bouvé College of Health Sciences. His research focuses on leveraging ubiquitous technologies like smartphones and wearables to enable effective digital health interventions for mental and behavioral health outcomes. His research is in the broad field of ubiquitous computing and lies at the intersection of mobile/wearable sensing, human-centered computing, data science, and behavioral science. Mishra’s work is highly interdisciplinary, and he regularly collaborates with clinicians, psychologists, engineers, and other computer scientists to design, build, and deploy the tools and systems needed for their collective research goals.
Mishra received his doctorate in computer science from Dartmouth College and worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the Center for Technology and Behavioral Health (CTBH) in the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth before joining Northeastern.