Veronica Pimenova

Veronica Pimenova

vpim [at] cmu [dot] edu

📍 Pittsburgh, PA

Hi, I'm Veronica! 🙂

I am an undergraduate senior at Carnegie Mellon University studying Information Systems & Human-Computer Interaction (HCI). I do research within accessible software design & development at Carnegie Mellon's Software and Societal Systems department, advised by Andrew Begel and Aaron Steinfeld.

My research focuses on the intersection of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and HCI, and I am passionate about inclusivity for minority groups, especially for women and those with neurodiversities. I am in my third year of this research at the VariAbility Lab , specifically within the usage of AI to develop tools to help neurodivergent individuals learn basic programming skills. I just finished running a study where I'm testing the effectiveness of a segmentation algorithm I developed on users with ADHD to promote software engineering education for all.

I will be graduating from Carnegie Mellon with my Bachelor's degree in May 2025, and I am actively seeking potential advisor(s) for PhD programs starting in Fall 2025.

Latest Research News

  • October 20th, 2024 - I did a presentation at OurCS where I worked in collaboration with CMU's CyLab (Lorrie Cranor). Earlier in the week I also attended a fully-funded MIT Media Lab workshop at UIST 2024.

    • The dean of CMU School of Computer Science watched my presentation.
    Veronica with CS dean

  • September 28th, 2024 - I was a guest lecturer to 200+ attendees at Carnegie Mellon's family weekend.

    • Veronica giving a talk

  • September 13th, 2024 - I was a guest lecturer at Carnegie Mellon's 67-200 course on my accessibility work.

  • August 8th, 2024 - I was accepted to ACM SIGASSETS 2024 as an SV. 🎉

  • July 25th, 2024 - I recieved a scholarship from Carnegie Mellon Information System's Inclusion Committee to attend the 2024 Tapia Conference in San Diego, CA.

  • June 6th, 2024 - I recieved a scholarship from Cornell University and Meta Reality Labs to attend the XR Access Symposium on June 6-7 in New York City.

  • May 8th, 2024 - I presented at Carnegie Mellon's 2024 Meeting of the Minds and recieved a fellowship from Carnegie Mellon Undergraduate Research to continue this work through fall 2024.


Read more about my academic and research journey here.