Veronica Pimenova

Veronica Pimenova

vpim [at] cmu [dot] edu

📍 Pittsburgh, PA


Hi, I'm Veronica (she/her)! 🙂

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, specifically women and people with disabilities.

I will be graduating from Carnegie Mellon with my Bachelor's degree in May 2025 and I will be starting my PhD at the University of Michigan this fall! Go Blue! 💙💛

Research News


  • April 8th, 2025 - I won an Honorable Mention for the National Science Foundation's Graduate Research Fellowship! 🎉

  • March 28th, 2025 - I am featured on CMU News!

    • Veronica in the TCS Building

  • February 26th, 2025 - I gave a talk at SIGCSE at the AccessComputing event!

    • Veronica SIGCSE AccessComputing Talk

  • January 14th, 2025 - My abstract on Enhancing Learning Platforms for Individuals with ADHD got accepted to NCUR 2025! 🎉

  • December 9th, 2024 - I led NAPE in a talk at CMU Access lunch.

    • NAPE Access Lunch presentation

  • November 28th, 2024 - Happy Thanksgiving from the VariAbility Lab!!

    • VariAbility Lab Thanksgiving

  • 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 received a scholarship from Carnegie Mellon Information System's Inclusion Committee to attend the 2024 Tapia Conference in San Diego, CA.

  • June 6th, 2024 - I received 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 received a fellowship from Carnegie Mellon Undergraduate Research to continue this work through fall 2024.


Read more about my academic and research journey here.