Work
Amit Chourasia leads the Visualization Services group at the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC). His work is focused on leading the research, development and application of software tools for scientific visualization; for data typically generated by massively large computer simulations in various fields of science and engineering. Key portion of his work is to find ways to represent data in a visual form that is clear, succint and accurate (a challenging yet very exciting endeavour). He has had opportunities to work with research groups doing path breaking research in areas of astrophysics, biological sciences, climate modeling, computational fluid dynamics, nano technology, psychology, structural engineering and seismology. He believes that with the help of visualization domain scientists can visually validate their data, gain significant insights and share results with a wider community.
Amit's application and research interests are in area of animation, computer graphics, visualization and visual perception. He received a Master's degree in Computers Graphics Technology from Purdue University, West Lafayette and a Baccalaureate degree in Architecture(Honors) from Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur. He is a member of Visualization and Graphics Technical Committee; serves as a reviewer for many technical conferences inluding VisWeek, Euro Vis and International Symposium on Visual Computing. He is the Chair for the 2009 IEEE Visualization Design Contest and the former Co-Chair for the 2008 IEEE Visualization Design Contest.
"Imagination is more important than knowledge" - Albert Einstein
Contacts:
Work: amit
sdsc.edu
Personal: achourasiayahoo.com
Links
Visualization Services Group (Visservices)
San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC)
University of Califonia San Diego (UCSD)