Megh Marathe

Biography

My research seeks to foster inclusion in the tools and practices that experts—such as doctors and engineers—use to make decisions about people’s lives. My work advances the fields of human-computer interaction and science & technology studies. I am currently investigating: (a) the uneven representation of transgender people in digital infrastructures, and (b) ways to help epilepsy patients understand data generated by medical devices. I enjoy collaborating across disciplinary boundaries. Before SFU, I was an assistant professor at Michigan State University and President’s Postdoctoral Fellow at University of California, Irvine. I received a PhD from the University of Michigan.

Publications

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Refereed Contributions

Articles in Scholarly Refereed Journals      

Drew Kirks-Cler⁺, Sam Safford⁺, and Megh Marathe. 2025. Towards inclusive infrastructures: Examining the experiences of gender diverse people in university systems. Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, 26 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3757680
    Best Paper Honourable Mention Award (top 3% of 575 submitted articles)

Jun Zhu⁺ and Megh Marathe. 2025. Living with brain data: Collaboration and equity in data-intensive brain implants. Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, 26 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3757625

Clair Kronk, Os Keyes, and Megh Marathe. 2025. Towards an estimate of the impact of censorship on biomedical literature. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association 32, 7, 1199–1205. DOI.

R. Bert Wilkins, Tara Coffin, Michelle Pham, Eran Klein, and Megh Marathe. 2025. Mind the gap: bridging ethical considerations and regulatory oversight in implantable BCI human subjects research. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. 19, 1633627. DOI.

Megh Marathe. 2024. Differential pace: Technology and inequality in the making of episodic disability. Disability Studies Quarterly 44, 1. DOI.

Megh Marathe. 2024. Therapeutic value in the time of digital brainwaves. Social Studies of Science 54, 6, 931–954. DOI.

Ariella Hoffman-Peterson⁺, Megh Marathe, Mark S. Ackerman, William Barnett, Reema Hamasha⁺, April Kang⁺, Kashmira Sawant⁺, Allen Flynn, and Jodyn E. Platt. 2024. Advancing maturity modeling for precision oncology. Journal of Clinical and Translational Science. 8, 1, e5. DOI.

Oliver L. Haimson and Megh Marathe. 2023. Uncovering personal histories: A technology-mediated approach to eliciting reflection on identity transitions. ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction 30, 2, 1–28. DOI.

Vaishnav Kameswaran⁺, Vidhya Y⁺, and Megh Marathe. 2023. Advocacy as access work: How people with visual impairments gain access to digital banking in India. Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction 7, CSCW1, 1–23. DOI.

Elizabeth A. Ankrah⁺, Megh Marathe, Arpita Bhattacharya, Anamara Ritt-Olson, Joel E. Milam, Lilibeth Torno, and Gillian R. Hayes. 2023. Plan for tomorrow: The experience of adolescent and young adult childhood cancer survivors as they transition to adult care. Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction 7, CSCW2, 1–27. DOI.

Megh Marathe and Kentaro Toyama. 2021. The situated, relational, and evolving nature of epilepsy diagnosis. Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction 4, CSCW3, 1–18. DOI.

Megh Marathe, Yoonseon Yi⁺, Chia-Hsuan Su⁺, Ting-Wei Chang⁺, and Gabriela Marcu. 2021. Tedious Versus Taxing: The nature of work in a behavioral health context. Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction 5, CSCW2, 1–24. DOI.

Megh Marathe. 2020. Seizure aesthetics: Temporal regimes and medical technology in epilepsy diagnosis. Time & Society 29, 2, 420–443. DOI.

Conference Proceedings (Full-Length Publications)

Deepak Giri⁺, Júlia Hellín López⁺, Celeste Campos-Castillo, and Megh Marathe. 2025. “Do you overreact to pressure, blow things out of proportion?”: An ADHD-centered critical review of emotional dysregulation measures. In 27th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS ’25), ACM, 16 pages.
    Best Paper Honourable Mention Award (top 10 papers)

Sharon Heung⁺, Mahika Phutane⁺, Shiri Azenkot, Megh Marathe, and Aditya Vashistha. 2022. Nothing Micro About It: Examining Ableist Microaggressions on Social Media. In 24th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS ’22), 14 pages. DOI.

Megh Marathe and Priyank Chandra. 2020. Officers never type: Examining the persistence of paper in e-governance. In CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’20), 1–13. DOI.

Megh Marathe and Kentaro Toyama [project ideation, data collection, data analysis, software development, writing]. 2018. Semi-Automated Coding for Qualitative Research. In Proceedings of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’18), Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 1–12. https://doi.org/10.1145/3173574.3173922
    Best Paper Award (top 1% of 2592 submitted articles)

Megh Marathe, Jacki O’Neill, Paromita Pain, and William Thies. 2016. ICT-Enabled Grievance Redressal in Central India. In Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development (ICTD ’16), ACM, 1–11. https://doi.org/10.1145/2909609.2909653

Megh Marathe, Jacki O’Neill, Paromita Pain, and William Thies. 2015. Revisiting CGNet Swara and Its Impact in Rural India. In Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development (ICTD ’15). https://doi.org/10.1145/2737856.2738026

Conference Proceedings (Short Publications and Extended Abstracts)

Megh Marathe. 2024. Inpatient experiences of long-term monitoring: The case of EEG. In Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW ’24), 511–518. DOI.

Kim Fernandes, Rahaf Alharbi⁺, Cella Sum⁺, Vaishnav Kameswaran⁺, Franchesca Spektor⁺, A Thuppilikkat⁺, Adrian Petterson⁺, Megh Marathe, Foad Hamidi, and Priyank Chandra. 2024. Organizing for More Just and Inclusive Futures: A Community Discussion. In Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW ’24), 689–692. DOI.

Devon Roe⁺ and Megh Marathe. 2023. Examining race in healthcare-focused HCI research. In Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW ’23), 22–26. DOI.

Robert Soden, David Ribes, Seyram Avle, Sarah E Fox, Phoebe Sengers, Shreyasha Paudel⁺, and Megh Marathe. 2023. Historicism in/as CSCW Method: Research, Sensibilities, and Design. In Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW ’23), 497–500. DOI.

Aparna Moitra, Megh Marathe, Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed, and Priyank Chandra. 2021. Negotiating Intersectional Non-Normative Queer Identities in India. In CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’21), 1–6. DOI.

Krittika D’Silva, Megh Marathe, Aditya Vashistha, Gaetano Borriello, and William Thies. 2014. A Mobile Application for Interactive Voice Forums: Design and Pilot Deployment in Rural India. In Proceedings of the Fifth ACM Symposium on Computing for Development (DEV ’14), ACM, 121–122. https://doi.org/10.1145/2674377.2678270

Other Refereed Contributions

Papers Presented at Scholarly Meetings or Conferences (Selected)

Megh Marathe. 2025. Therapeutic value in technologized care. Society for the Social Studies of Science. Seattle, USA.

Megh Marathe and Michelle Pham. 2025. Institutional review boards in neurotechnology research: A critical examination. International Neuroethics Society. Munich, Germany. Top presentation award.

Deirdre Shires, Hannah Boyke⁺, Leonardo Kattari⁺, Jen Hirsch⁺, Jae Puckett, and Megh Marathe. 2024. Who counts? Assessing the impact of using diagnostic codes versus self-report on the representation of transgender and nonbinary patients in health services research. World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) Scientific Symposium. Lisbon, Portugal.

Megh Marathe. 2023. Navigating unequal healthcare infrastructures: Patient work in epilepsy diagnosis. Society for the Social Studies of Science. Honolulu, USA.

Megh Marathe. 2023. Invisibility, inequality, and expertise in epilepsy diagnosis. International Society for the History, Philosophy, and Social Studies of Biology. Toronto, Canada.

Megh Marathe. 2021. The making of seizure. Society for Disability Studies. Online.

Megh Marathe. 2021. Big data in medicine: The case of epilepsy. Society for the Social Studies of Science. Online.

Megh Marathe, Russell Derry, Kentaro Toyama, and Sucheta Joshi. 2020. Adding nuance to ‘zero seizures and zero side-effects’. American Epilepsy Society. Online.

Non-refereed Contributions

Essays

Michaelanne Thomas, David Ribes, Andrea Grover, Megh Marathe, Alexandra Teixeira Riggs⁺, Firaz Peer, and Pooja Upadhyay⁺. 2024. Historical friction: Pacing ourselves in HCI. Interactions 31, 6, 60–63. https://doi.org/10.1145/3699689

Megh Marathe. 2021. Technology in Medical Anthropology. Medical Anthropology Quarterly Reading The Archives, 4. Retrieved from https://medanthroquarterly.org/teaching/rta/issue-4technology-in-medical-anthropology/

Megh Marathe. 2019. Staging Seizure: The Chronic Contingency of Epilepsy Diagnosis. Somatosphere. Retrieved from http://somatosphere.net/2019/staging-seizure-the-chronic-contingency-of-epilepsy-diagnosis.html/

Talks

Michaelanne Thomas, David Ribes, Andrea Grover, Megh Marathe, Alexandra Teixeira Riggs⁺, Firaz Peer, and Pooja Upadhyay⁺. 2024. Historical friction: Pacing ourselves in HCI. Interactions 31, 6, 60–63. https://doi.org/10.1145/3699689

Megh Marathe. 2021. Technology in Medical Anthropology. Medical Anthropology Quarterly Reading The Archives, 4. Retrieved from https://medanthroquarterly.org/teaching/rta/issue-4technology-in-medical-anthropology/

Megh Marathe. 2019. Staging Seizure: The Chronic Contingency of Epilepsy Diagnosis. Somatosphere. Retrieved from http://somatosphere.net/2019/staging-seizure-the-chronic-contingency-of-epilepsy-diagnosis.html/

Creative Outputs

Megh Marathe, Sue Chong⁺, and Jack Withers⁺. 2020. Voices of Epilepsy, a three-part narrative podcast series on living with epilepsy. Available on YouTube.