Dr. Maitri Vaghela
Designation: Assistant Professor
Dr. Maitri Vaghela is an Assistant Professor specializing in Human–Computer Interaction and Digital Phenotyping, with a research focus on smartphone-based behavioral analytics for mental health assessment. She earned her Ph.D. from DAIICT through an ICSSR-funded study that captured real-world behavioral data from college students using a custom-developed sensing app. Her work, published by Springer Nature, contributes novel insights into early indicators of stress, anxiety, and depression in young adults. She has delivered hands-on workshops on sensor data analysis for NIRMA University and the Gujarat Government’s Faculty Training Program for Dhirubhai Ambani University. Her interdisciplinary approach bridges technology, behavior, and well-being.
- Ph.D. Dhirubhai Ambani University, Gujarat
- M.Tech. Computer Science Engineering, Charusat, Changa, Gujarat.
- B.Tech. Information Technology, Birla Vishvkarma Mahavidhyalaya, Vidhyanagar, Gujarat.
- Assistant Professor, Adani University, (April 2024 till present).
- Human Computer Interaction
- Digital phenotyping
- Smartphone mediated tracking and analysis of sleep patterns in Indian college students M Vaghela, K Sasidhar Human-Centric Intelligent Systems 3 (1), 25-36.
- Assessing mobile usage, physical activity and sleep through smartphone sensing: a digital phenotype study M Vaghela, K Sasidhar, A Parikh, R Wagani SN Computer Science 3 (5), 331
- Mindful or Distracted? Understanding Student Mobile Behavior Through Digital Phenotyping M Vaghela, A Patel, M Shah International Conference on ICT for Sustainable Development, 416-428.
- An m-health app that goes beyond screen time applications S Patel, K Sasidhar, M Vaghela, P Katrodia, R Wagani 2022 IEEE 10th Region 10 Humanitarian Technology Conference (R10-HTC), 94-99.
- Maitri Vaghela and Kalyan Sasidhar. 2020. Analyzing the human behavior using pervasive sensing system. In Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Distributed Computing and Networking (ICDCN ’20). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 46, 1–5. https://doi.org/10.1145/3369740.3372766.
- An Experimental Study of Mobile Phone Impact on College Students M Vaghela, K Sasidhar, A Parikh ICT Systems and Sustainability: Proceedings of ICT4SD 2019, Volume 1, 225-234
- Dr. Vaghela worked as a Data field Investigator in project called analyzing student mental health using smartphones, funded by ICSSR (Indian Council of Social Science Research).
- Dr. Vaghela have conducted a Hands-On Session on Computer Networks during a Faculty Development Program (FDP) organized by the Gujarat Government at Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology (DA-IICT) in 2018. Delivered a session on “AI Tools for Educators” as part of the FDP “ShikshaVid” held at Adani University in July 2025.
