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 | |
| Assess client requirements and deliver visualization solutions through research, design, development and leveraging of existing software tools and techniques.Extensive work in using Maya for scientific visualizations. Seismic Visualization: TeraShake (url), Puente Hills (url), 1906 San Francisco Quake (url), Seven Story Shake Table experiment (url), Viz portal (url) Universe Visualization: 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 |
I N V I T E D P R E S E N T A T I O N S & T A L K S
• "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, Tallahasse, 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
W O R K S I N M E D I A
• "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
B O O K C H A P T E R S
• Chourasia, A. (2008). Visualization of Seismic Model Data. In C. Baru & R. G. Keller (Eds.), Geoinformatics: Cyberinfrastructure for the Solid Earth Sciences. Cambridge University Press. (invited, under preparation)
• Maechling, P., Cui, Y., Olsen, K., Okaya, D., Deelman, E., Chourasia, A., Mehta, G., Jordon, T. (2008). Community Codes for Earthquake Wave Propagation Research – The TeraShakePlatform, In C. Baru & R. G. Keller (Ed/s.), Geoinformatics: Cyberinfrastructure for the Solid Earth Sciences, Cambridge University Press (invited, under preparation)
• Cui, Y., Chourasia, A., Moore, R., Olsen, K. B., Maechling, P., and Jordan T. (2008). The TeraShake Computational Platform for Large-Scale Earthquake Simulations,Advances in Geocomputing, Lecture Notes in Earth Sciences, 119, pp. 229-278, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg (in press) DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-85879-9_7
• Cui, Y., Moore, R., Olsen, K., Chourasia, A., Maechling, P., Minster, B., Day, S., Hu, Y., Zhu, J., Majumdar, A., & Jordan, T. (2007). Enabling very large scale earthquake simulations on parallel machines, Computational Science – ICCS 2007, Vol. 4487, pp. 46-53, Springer Berlin / Heidelberg. DOI: 10.1007/s11440-008-0055-2. PDF
P U B L I C A T I O N S
• 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.
• Olsen, K. B., Day, S. M., Minster, J. B., Cui, Y., Chourasia, A., Okaya, D., Maechling, P., & Jordan, T. (2008). TeraShake2: Spontaneous Rupture Simulations of Mw 7.7 Earthquakes on the Southern San Andreas Fault.Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, Vol. 98, No. 3, pp. 1162-1185, June 2008, doi: 10.1785/0120070148 PDF
• Cui, Y., Moore, R., Olsen, K. B., Chourasia, A., Maechling, P., Minster, J. B., Day, S. M., Hu, Y., Zhu, J., & Jordan, T. (2008). Toward Petascale Earthquakes Simulations. Acta Geotechnica, Springer. DOI: 10.1007/s11440-008-0055-2 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
• Andrews, P., Margo, M., Chourasia, A., & Towns, J. (2006). Enabling HPC E-Science via Integrated Grid Infrastructure. Proceedings of the Second IEEE International Conference on e-Science and Grid Computing, E-SCIENCE. IEEE Computer Society, Washington, DC, p. 156.
• Olsen, K. B., Day, S. M., Minster, J. B., Cui, Y., Chourasia, A., Faerman, M., Moore, R., Maechling, P., & Jordan, T. (2006). Strong Shaking in Los Angeles Expected from Southern San Andreas Earthquake. Geophysical Research Letters, vol. 33, L07305. 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
P O S T E R S & A B S T R A C T S
• Chourasia, A., Cutchin, S. M., DeCastro, A., & Ely, G. (2007). Visualizing Earthquake Simulation Data. Eos Trans. American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting.
• Chourasia, A., & Cutchin, S. M. (2007). Visualization of Shake Table Data. NEES 5th Annual Meeting. Snowbird, Utah.
• Chourasia, A., & Cutchin, S. (2007). Digital Re-creation of a Seven Story Building Shake during an Earthquake. Movie in DVD proceedings of IEEE Visualization Conference.
• Chourasia, A., & Cutchin, S. M. (2007). Visual Representation of Seismic Data. Geoinformatics Conference.
• Chourasia, A., & Cutchin, S. M. (2006). Visualization of Large and Small Scale Seismic Data. Eos Trans. American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting. (Invited)
• Minster, J., Olsen, K. B., Day, S., Moore, R., Jordan, T., Maechling, P., & Chourasia, A. (2006). The Scientific Value of 4D Visualizations. Eos Trans. American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, 2006. (Invited)
• Chourasia, A., & Cutchin, S. (2006). Exploring an Earthquake Simulation. Movie in DVD proceedings of IEEE Visualization Conference.
• Schulze, J. P., & Chourasia, A. (2006) A User Interface for High Dynamic Range Transfer Function Design. Poster in DVD proceedings of ACM SIGGRAPH.
• Olsen, K., Day, S., Minster, J. B., Cui, Y., Chourasia, A., Moore, R., Hu, Y., Zhu, J., Maechling, P., & Jordan, T. (2006). SCEC TeraShake Simulations: High Resolution Simulations of Large Southern San Andreas Earthquakes Using the TeraGrid. TeraGrid Conference.
• Olsen, K., Day, S., Minster, J., Cui, Y., Chourasia, A., Faerman, M., Moore, R., Hu, Y., Zhu, J., Li, Y., Maechling, P., & Jordan, T. (2006). TeraShake: Strong Shaking in Los Angeles Expected From Southern San Andreas Earthquake. Seismological Society of America Annual Meeting.
• Minster, J., Olsen, K. B., Moore, R., Day, S., Maechling, P., Jordan, T., Faerman, M., Cui, Y., Ely, G., Hu, Y., Shkoller, B., Marcinkovich, C., Bielak, J., Okaya, D., Archuleta, R., Wilkins-Diehr, N., Cutchin, S., Chourasia, A., Kremenek, G., Jagatheesan, A., Brieger, L., Majundar, A., Chukkapalli, G., Xin, Q., Banister, B., Thorp, D., Kovatch, P., Diegel, L., Sherwin, T., Jordan, C., Thiebaux, M., & Lopez. J. (2005). The SCEC TeraShake Earthquake Simulation. Eos Trans. American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting. (Invited)
• Villani, A. N., Chourasia, A., & Cory, C. A. (2004) Production Interface for Web-Deliverable Realistic Interactive 3D Facial Animation. The 12-th International Conference in Central Europe on Computer Graphics, Visualization and Computer Vision.
A W A R D S, P O S I T I O N S & S P E C I A L C E R T I F I C A T I O N S
• Best visualization display award at TeraGrid 08 for TeraShake
• Co-Chair, IEEE Visualization Design Contest (2008)
• Finalist, Science and Engineering Visualization Challenge (2006 & 2005)
• Winner, Interactive Software Design (prototype), IDEON - IIT Kharagpur (2000)
• Certification in Fine Arts and Diploma in Music
• President, Society for Promotion of Indian Classical Music and Culture Amongst Youth, IIT Kharagpur Chapter (2000-2001)
• Member, Visualization and Graphics Technical Committee
G R A N T S
Senior contributor on the following awarded grant
•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