Organizational and Other Academic Activities
- Workshop Co-chair: Visualization for Digital Humanities in conjunction with: IEEE Pacific Visualization Conference 2025.
- Best Paper Award Selection Committee Member: IEEE Visualization Conference (IEEEVIS 2025]).
- Program Co-chair (VIS track): 19th International Symposium on Visual Computing (ISVC’24), Lake Tahoe, Nevada, USA (2024).
- Best Paper Award Selection Committee Member: In Situ Infrastructures for Enabling Extreme-scale Analysis and Visualization (ISAV 2023)
- Posters Co-chair: IEEE Symposium on Large Data Analysis and Visualization (LDAV 2023-24)
- Co-chair: IEEE Visualization Fast Forward and Video Previews (2023-24)
- Co-chair: Visualization in Environmental Sciences (EnvirVis 2020-24) (Co-located with EuroVis)
- Co-chair: IEEE Visualization Application Spotlights (2021-22)
- Co-chair: IEEE Visualization Open Practices (2019-20)
- Co-lead: Data Science at Scale Summer School, Los Alamos National Laboratory (2020-22)
- Board Member: Student Program Advisory Committee, Los Alamos National Laboratory (2021-22)
- Reviewer board member: IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS) (2021-22)
- Topic Editor and member of reviewer board: MDPI Entropy Journal (2021-22)
- Poster judge: Los Alamos National Laboratory Student Symposium (2021)
- Poster Judge: ACSESS event for Computational Science Research Center (CSRC) graduate students at San Diego State University (SDSU) (2021)
- Tutorial Co-organizer: Statistical Data Representation, Visualization, and Uncertainty Analysis at IEEE Visualization 2019
- Co-organizer: Application Spotlight titled “Feature-based Visual Interactive Systems to Optimize Decision Making” at IEEE Visualization 2019
Invited Talks, Seminars, Presentations
- Invited talk at the Five-day program on Technology, Economics, and Public Policy: A Training on Data-Driven Governance, 2025, at IIT Kanpur
Title: Fundamentals of Data Visualization - Invited talk at the Five-day program on Technology, Economics, and Public Policy: A Training on Data-Driven Governance, 2025, at IIT Kanpur
Title: Modern Data Visualization for Policy Making - Invited talk at the Scientific Visualization Workshop, in conjunction with IEEE Pacific Visualization Conference, Taiwan, 2025
Title: Visual Computing of Scientific Data using Uncertainty-aware Deep Learning Models - Invited talk at the International Symposium on Science and Education hosted by National Taiwan Normal University (NTNU), Taiwan, 2024
Title: Visual Computing of Scientific Data using Uncertainty-aware Deep Learning Models - Invited talk at the National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) Workshop on Multiphase Flow Science 2023
Title: End-to-end Interactive Feature Analysis in Large-scale Multiphase Flow Simulations using In Situ Feature Extraction and Post-hoc Visual Analytics - IEEE Visualization Application Spotlights: Data Analysis Methods for Climate Modeling of Extreme Weather Events, October 2022
Title: Efficient Predictive Analytics of Extreme Weather Events via In Situ Data Modeling - Paper presentation at 6th International Workshop on In Situ Visualization – held in conjunction with ISC High Performance, June 2022
Title: In Situ Analysis and Visualization of Extreme-Scale Particle Simulations - Project progress talk at Exascale Computing Project (ECP) Community Birds-of-a-Feather (BOF) Days, May 2022
Title: ALPINE Infrastructure and Algorithms - Technical Research Talk and IIT Bombay, April 2022
Title: Efficient Knowledge Extraction and Visual Analytics of Big Data at Scale - Technical Research Talk and IIT Kanpur, March 2022
Title: Efficient Knowledge Extraction and Visual Analytics of Big Data at Scale - Lightning paper talk at DOE ASCR Workshop on Visualization for Scientific Discovery, Decision-Making, & Communication, Jan. 2022.
Title: Model-based Visual Analytics of Big Data: Challenges and Opportunities - Paper presentation at IEEE International Conference on Big Data (IEEE BigData), December 2021.
Title: In Situ Adaptive Spatio-Temporal Data Summarization - Paper presentation at In Situ Infrastructures for Enabling Extreme-scale Analysis and Visualization (ISAV), Nov. 2021.
Title: In Situ Climate Modeling for Analyzing Extreme Weather Events - Invited technical seminar talk hosted by the E.C.E. Dept. of Netaji Subhash Engineering College (NSEC), Nov. 2021.
Title: Data Exploration at Exascale: Challenges, Solutions, and Opportunities - Lightning research talk at JuliaCon, July 2021.
Title: In-Situ Data Analysis with Julia for E3SM at Large Scale - Invited panel member: NSF Center on Pervasive Personalized Intelligence for IoT Systems Scale-up, June 2021.
Title: Opportunities and challenges on using Data Visualization - Invited technical talk at Los Alamos - Arizona Days Conference, May 2021.
Title: Statistical Techniques for Enabling Extreme-scale Data Summarization, Feature Exploration, and Visual Analysis - Invited research talk at Information Sciences Group (CCS-3), Los Alamos National Laboratory, May 2021.
Title: Statistical and Machine Learning Techniques for Enabling Extreme-scale Data Summarization, Feature Exploration, and Visual Analysis - Early career research talk at U.S. Department of Energy Computer Graphics Forum (DOECGF), April 2021.
Title: Extreme-scale Data Reduction, Feature Exploration, and Visual Analysis - U.S. Department of Energy Computer Graphics Forum (DOECGF), April 2021.
Title: Facilities and Research Update for Los Alamos National Laboratory - Talk at 5th Exascale Computing Project (ECP) Annual Meeting, April 2021.
Title: In Situ Scalable Data Reduction and Feature Exploration Algorithms for Exascale Simulations - LDRD: In Situ Inference, Los Alamos National Lab, Project review. December 2020.
Title: In Situ Climate Modeling and Analysis - Talk at 4th Exascale Computing Project (ECP) Annual Meeting, February 2020.
Title: In situ Statistical Feature Detection, Characterization, and Tracking - Tutorial: ACM SIGGRAPH Asia Symposium on Visualization, November 2017.
Title: Information Theory in Visualization (Co-delivered a tutorial session on behalf of Prof. Han-Wei Shen) - Paper presentation at ACM SIGGRAPH Asia Symposium on Visualization, November 2017.
Title: Pointwise Information Guided Visual Analysis of Time-varying Multi-fields - Paper presentation at IEEE Pacific Visualization, April 2017.
Title: Homogeneity Guided Probabilistic Data Summaries for Analysis and Visualization of Large-Scale Data Sets - Paper presentation at IEEE Visualization, October 2016.
Title: In situ Distribution Guided Analysis and Visualization of Transonic Jet Engine Simulations - Invited technical talk at Statistical Sciences Group (CCS-6), Los Alamos National Laboratory, July 2016.
Title: Distribution-driven data analysis and visualization - Paper presentation at IEEE Visualization, October 2015.
Title: Distribution Driven Extraction and Tracking of Features for Time-varying Data Analysis
International Program Committee (IPC) Member
- The International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis (SuperComputing 2025)
- IEEE Visualization Full Papers (IEEE VIS 2022-24)
- EG/VGTC Conference on Visualization (EuroVis 2023-2026)
- IEEE HiPC 2024
- IEEE Cluster 2024
- International Conference on High Performance Computing, Data, and Analytics (HiPC 2023)
- IEEE Pacific Visualization (PacificVis 2021-23, 2024 (TVCG Track), 2025 (Conference Track))
- EuroGraphics Symposium on Parallel Graphics and Visualization (EGPGV 2021-22)
- IEEE Symposium on Large Data Analysis and Visualization (LDAV 2019, 2021-23, 2025)
- Visualization in Environmental Sciences Workshop (EnvirVis 2019)
- IEEE Visualization Short Papers (2019-21,2023)
- In Situ Infrastructures for Enabling Extreme-scale Analysis and Visualization (ISAV 2019-22)
- International Symposium on Visual Computing (ISVC 2019-2022)
- International Workshop on Big Data Reduction (IEEE IWBDR 2020-21, 2025)
- Program committee member at other venues: IVAPP 2020, VISUAL 2017-2020
Reviewer Proposal
- United States Department of Energy (DOE), Office of Advanced Scientific Computing Research (ASCR), 2024.
- German Research Foundation: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) (2023, 2024)
Reviewer Paper
- IEEE HiPC
- IEEE Cluster
- IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG)
- Computer Graphics Forum (CGF)
- IEEE Visualization (SciVis, VAST, InfoVis)
- IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS)
- IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement (TIM)
- IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems (TAES)
- EG/VGTC Conference on Visualization (EuroVis)
- ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI)
- IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering (TNSE)
- Springer Journal of Visualization (JOVI)
- IEEE Pacific Visualization Symposium (PacificVis)
- Elsevier Knowledge-based Systems
- MDPI Journals (Entropy, Algorithms, Sustainability, International Journal of Geo-Information)
- IEEE Sympossium on Large Data Analysis and Visualization (LDAV)
- International Symposium on Visual Computing (ISVC)
- International Workshop on Big Data Reduction (IEEE IWBDR)
- Visualization in Environmental Sciences (EnvirVis)
- ACM In Situ Infrastructures for Enabling Extreme-scale Analysis and Visualization (ISAV)
PhD Thesis Defense Committee Member
- Humayra Tasnim (University of New Mexico, USA)
- Shubham Kumar Nigam (IITK)