Varun Mishra
(he/him)
Assistant Professor, Interdisciplinary with the Bouvé College of Health Sciences
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
Biography
Varun Mishra is an assistant professor in the Khoury College of Computer Sciences and the Bouvé College of Health Sciences at Northeastern University, based in Boston.
Mishra leverages ubiquitous technologies like smartphones and wearables to enable effective digital interventions for mental and behavioral health. His research in the broad field of ubiquitous computing lies at the intersection of mobile and wearable sensing, human-centered computing, data science, and behavioral science. His work is highly interdisciplinary, and he regularly collaborates with clinicians, psychologists, engineers, and other computer scientists to design, build, and deploy tools and systems.
Before joining Northeastern, Mishra worked as a postdoctoral researcher in the Center for Technology and Behavioral Health in the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth College.
Labs and groups
Recent publications
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Vital Insight: Assisting Experts’ Sensemaking Process of Multi-modal Personal Tracking Data Using Visualization and LLM
Citation: Jiachen Li, Justin Steinberg, Xiwen Li, Akshat Choube, Bingsheng Yao, Dakuo Wang, Elizabeth D. Mynatt, Varun Mishra . (2024). Vital Insight: Assisting Experts' Sensemaking Process of Multi-modal Personal Tracking Data Using Visualization and LLM CoRR, abs/2410.14879. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2410.14879 -
Collecting Self-reported Physical Activity and Posture Data Using Audio-based Ecological Momentary Assessment
Citation: Ha Le, Rithika Lakshminarayanan, Jixin Li, Varun Mishra , Stephen S. Intille. (2024). Collecting Self-reported Physical Activity and Posture Data Using Audio-based Ecological Momentary Assessment Proc. ACM Interact. Mob. Wearable Ubiquitous Technol., 8, 111:1-111:35. https://doi.org/10.1145/3678584 -
Investigating Social Interaction Patterns with Depression Severity across Different Personality Traits Using Digital Phenotyping
Citation: Ohida Binte Amin, Varun Mishra , Aarti Sathyanarayana. (2023). Investigating Social Interaction Patterns with Depression Severity across Different Personality Traits Using Digital Phenotyping ACIIW, 1-4. https://doi.org/10.1109/ACIIW59127.2023.10388164 -
“Always Nice and Confident, Sometimes wrong”: Developer’s Experiences Engaging Generative AI Chatbots Versus Human-Powered Q&A Platforms
Citation: Jiachen Li, Elizabeth D. Mynatt, Varun Mishra , Jonathan Bell. (2023). "Always Nice and Confident, Sometimes wrong": Developer's Experiences Engaging Generative AI Chatbots Versus Human-Powered Q&A Platforms CoRR, abs/2309.13684. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2309.13684 -
Detecting Receptivity for mHealth Interventions in the Natural Environment
Citation: Varun Mishra, Florian Künzler, Jan-Niklas Kramer, Elgar Fleisch, Tobias Kowatsch, and David Kotz. 2021. Detecting Receptivity for mHealth Interventions in the Natural Environment. Proc. ACM Interact. Mob. Wearable Ubiquitous Technol. 5, 2, Article 74 (June 2021), 24 pages. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3463492 -
When Do Drivers Interact with In-Vehicle Well-being Interventions? An Exploratory Analysis of a Longitudinal Study on Public Roads
Citation: Kevin Koch, Varun Mishra, Shu Liu, Thomas Berger, Elgar Fleisch, David Kotz, and Felix Wortmann. 2021. When Do Drivers Interact with In-Vehicle Well-being Interventions? An Exploratory Analysis of a Longitudinal Study on Public Roads. Proc. ACM Interact. Mob. Wearable Ubiquitous Technol. 5, 1, Article 19 (March 2021), 30 pages. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1145/3448116 -
Detecting Receptivity for mHealth Interventions
Citation: Varun Mishra , Florian Künzler, Jan-Niklas Kramer, Elgar Fleisch, Tobias Kowatsch, David Kotz. (2023). Detecting Receptivity for mHealth Interventions GetMobile Mob. Comput. Commun., 27, 23-28. https://doi.org/10.1145/3614214.3614221 -
6th International Workshop on Mental Health and Well-being: Sensing and Intervention
Citation: Varun Mishra , Akane Sano, Sahiti Kunchay, Saeed Abdullah, Jakob E. Bardram, Elizabeth L. Murnane, Tanzeem Choudhury, Mirco Musolesi, Giovanna Nunes Vilaza, Rajalakshmi Nandakumar, Tauhidur Rahman. (2021). 6th International Workshop on Mental Health and Well-being: Sensing and Intervention UbiComp/ISWC Adjunct, 185-187. https://doi.org/10.1145/3460418.3479264 -
FLIRT: A Feature Generation Toolkit for Wearable Data
Citation: Föll, Simon, Martin Maritsch, Federica Spinola, Varun Mishra, Filipe Barata, Tobias Kowatsch, Elgar Fleisch, and Felix Wortmann. "FLIRT: A Feature Generation Toolkit for Wearable Data." Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine (2021): 106461. -
Evaluating the Reproducibility of Physiological Stress Detection Models
Citation: Varun Mishra, Sougata Sen, Grace Chen, Tian Hao, Jeffrey Rogers, Ching-Hua Chen, and David Kotz. 2020. Evaluating the Reproducibility of Physiological Stress Detection Models. Proc. ACM Interact. Mob. Wearable Ubiquitous Technol. 4, 4, Article 147 (December 2020), 29 pages. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1145/3432220
