Curriculum Vitae
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A M I T C H O U R A S I A
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E D U C A T I O N
| Purdue University | West Lafayete, IN |
| Master of Science, Computer Graphics Technology, August 2003 |
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| Indian Institute of Technology | Kharagpur, India |
| Bachelor of Architecture (Honors), Architecture, June 2001 |
E X P E R I E N C E
| Visualization Scientist - San Diego Supercomputer Center, UCSD | 2003 - Present | |
| Lead Visualization Services group at SDSC. Deliver visualization solutions through research, design, development and leveraging of existing software tools and techniques on a wide array of problems. Extensive work in using Maya for scientific visualizations. Seismic Visualization: Wall2Wall, ShakeOut,TeraShake (url), Puente Hills (url), 1906 San Francisco Quake (url), Seven Story Shake Table experiment (url), Viz portal (url) Universe Visualization:Tiger Simulation, ENZO simulations (url1, url2) Climate Visualization: Columbia River flow (url) Computational Fluid Dynamics Visualization: Turbulence (url) (View selected work at http://users.sdsc.edu/~amit/web) |
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| Researcher and Systems Administrator, Purdue University | 2003 - 2003 | |
| Research in Information visualization and emerging technologies Administer Envision Lab 911 Pentagon Crash Visualization |
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| Architectural 3D Modelling/Web/Multimedia Development | 2000 - 2003 |
T E A C H I N G
| Instructor | Introduction to 3D Modeling (Maya), UCSD Extension | 2006 - 2007 | |
| Instructor | Computer Graphics workshop, Purdue University | 2002 - 2003 | |
| Instructor | Graphics for Civil Engg and Construction, Purdue University | 2001 - 2003 |
S E L E C T E D I N V I T E D T A L K S See more talks here
• "Scientific Visualization", National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, Colorado, May, 2009
• "Challenges in Visualizing Large Earthquake Simulations", Ultrascale Visualization Workshop, Supercomputing Conference, Nov, 2007
• "Visualization Case Studies", Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute, University of Utah, Jun 2007
• "Large Data Visualization", Dept of Computer Science, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Nov 2006
• "Siesmic Data Visualization", Cyberinfrastructure Summer Institute for Geoscientists, San Diego Supercomputer Center, Aug 2006
• "Visualizing TeraShake", GEON Visualization Workshop, San Diego Supercomputer Center, Mar 2005
S E L E C T E D W O R K S I N M E D I A See more press coverage here
• "The Big One" featured at SIGGRAPH 2009 Computer Animation Festival, SciDAC 2009 and also at wired.com
• "Digital Re-creation of a Seven Story Building Shake during an Earthquake" featured at IEEE Vis 2007 Scientific Animation Theatre, Sacramento, Nov 2007
• "Exploring an earthquake" featured at IEEE Vis 2006 Scientific Animation Theatre, Baltimore, Nov 2006
• "Recreation of 1906 San Francisco Earthquake" featured at the 100th Anniversary Earthquake Conference, San Francisco, Apr 2006
• "LA's Future Quake" show from National Geographic featured TeraShake and Puente Hills visualizations, Sep 2006
• "LA's Killer Quake" show from History Channel featured Puente Hills visualizations
• "Evolution of Universe" visualization featured at the Siggraph Dome Show, Los Angeles, Aug 2005
C O M P U T E R E X P E R T I S E
Programming: Working knowledge of C/C++, Basic Opengl, Expert Maya-MEL, 3Ds Max Script , perl, *nix shells, ASP, HTML
Graphics Softwares: Maya, Adobe After Effects, Photoshop, Illustrator, Flash, Premier, AutoCAD, 3D Studio Max & AVS
S E L E C T E D P U B L I C A T I O N S See full publication list here
• Chourasia, A., Cutchin, S. M., & Aagaard, B. (2008). Visualizing the Ground Motions of the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake. Computers & Geosciences. vol 34. pp. 1798-1805. December 2008. Elsevier, doi: 10.1016/j.cageo.2008.01.012, PDF.
• Chourasia, A., Cutchin, S. M., Olsen, K. B., Minster, B., Day, S., Cui, Y., Maechling, P., Moore, R., & Jordan. T. (2007). Visual Insights into High-Resolution Earthquake Simulations. IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications (Discovering the Unexpected), vol. 27, no. 5, pp. 28-34. PDF
• Chourasia, A., & Schulze, J. (2007). Data Centric Transfer Functions for High Dynamic Range Volume Data. Proceedings of the 15-th International Conference in Central Europe on Computer Graphics, Visualization and Computer Vision, pp. 9-16. PDF
• Chourasia, A. (2007). Digital Recreation of a Seven Story Building Shake during an Earthquake. ACM Crossroads (Computer Graphics), vol.13, no.3, pp. 6-8. PDF
• Meador, W. S., & Chourasia, A. (2003) Using 3D Computer Animation Tools to Render Complex Simulations. Proceedings of the American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition. PDF
• Villani, N. A., A. Chourasia and C. Cory, "Production interface for web-deliverable realistic interactive 3D facial animation" (2004), At the 12-th International Conference in Central Europe on Computer Graphics, Visualization and Computer Vision 2004, Plzen, Czech Republic, Feb 2-6, 2004
A W A R D S, P O S I T I O N S, E T C . . .
• Outstanding Achievement in Scientific Visualization award at the SciDAC 2009 conference
• Best visualization display award at TeraGrid 2008
• Finalist, Science and Engineering Visualization Challenge (2006 & 2005)
• Winner, Interactive Software Design (prototype), IDEON - IIT Kharagpur (2000)
• Chair, IEEE Visualization Design Contest 2010, 2009; Co-Chair, IEEE Visualization Design Contest (2008)
• Member: Visualization and Graphics Technical Committee
• Reviewer: VisWeek, Euro Vis and International Symposium on Visual Computing
G R A N T S
Senior contributor on the following awarded grants
•Petascale Cyberfacility for Physics-based Seismic Hazard Analysis Research Project (PetaSHA-1) (NSF EAR-0623704)
•Enabling Earthquake System Science Through Petascale Calculations (PetaShake) (NSF OCI-749313)
•Collaborative Research: Discovery in High Reynolds Number Turbulence via Advanced Tools for Petascale Simulation and Analysis (PetaApps) (NSF OCI-0749235 )
R E F E R E N C E S
Available upon request