Work | Amit Chourasia

Amit Chourasia is the Director of Software and Platforms at the San Diego Supercomputer Center at UC San Diego. He leads the platforms including Hubzero®, SeedMeLab and the new OneSciencePlace® where content meets computing. These platforms are actively used by over 25 research communities in different disciplines with 25K+users, ~1M compute jobs and 2.5M+ visitors annually. His applied and research interests are in the area of cyberinfrastructure, science gateways, data management & visualization and build platforms that remove barriers to technical expertise, infrastructure resources and content and make them available at scale as widely as possible.

Earlier he led the Visualization Group at SDSC where his work focused on leading the research, development and application of software tools and techniques for visualization. Key area of his work were to develop methods to represent data in a visual form that is clear, succinct and accurate (a challenging yet very exciting endeavor). He has had an opportunity to work with research groups in diverse science and engineering disciplines and contends that with the help of visualization, domain and data scientists can visually validate and investigate their data, explore and gain significant insights as well as share results within and outside their community.

Amit's applied and research interests are in area of cyberinfrastructure, science gateways, data management & visualization. He received a Master's degree in Computers Graphics Technology from Purdue University, West Lafayette and a Baccalaureate degree in Architecture from Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur. Notable accolades for his work include R&D 100 award 2020, Honorable Mention at International Science & Engineering Visualization Challenge 2010, Outstanding Achievement in Scientific Visualization award at the SciDAC 2011 and 2009 conference and Best Visualization Display award at TeraGrid 2011 and 2008. His visualization work has been featured at Siggraph Animation Festival, Siggraph Real Time Demos, documentaries by National Geographic and History Channel and many other news and media outlets.

"Imagination is more important than knowledge" - Albert Einstein

Contact

Work: amitsdsc.edu

Personal: a.chourasiaicloud.com

Scientific community service

Grant Proposal Reviewer, NSF, 2024
Steering Committee Member, PEARC 2020-2023
Awards Chair, PEARC20
Program Commitee, PEARC20, LDAV 2020, Gateways 2020
Ad Hoc Reviewer, IEEE CGA 2020
Grant Proposal Reviewer, NSF, 2020
Ad Hoc Reviewer, IEEE Visualization Conference 2019
Awards Chair, PEARC19
Area Chair, Demonstration: Gateways 2019
Program Committee, Gateways 2019, ISVC 2019, LDAV 2018
Grant Proposal Reviewer x 2, NSF, 2018
Award Committee, LDAV 2018 Best paper award
Program Committee, ISVC 2018, LDAV 2018
XSEDE Research Allocation Service Reviewer x 3, XRAS, 2017
Grant Proposal Reviewer x 2, NSF, 2017
Grant Proposal Reviewer, NASA, 2017
Invited Attendee, NSF CMMI data infrastructure workshop, Arlington, VA, 2017
Panel Moderator, 1st NSF Data Infrastructure Building Block (DIBBS) PI Workshop, Arlington, VA, 2017
Program Committee, SC 2017
Area Chair, SciVis contest, IEEE Vis 2017
XSEDE allocation Reviewer, XRAS, 2016
Best Poster Committee, IEEE LDAV 2016
Program Committee, SC 2016
Advisor, SciVis Contest, IEEE Vis 2011-2016
Area Chair, Visualization Showcase, XSEDE15
Program Committee, ISVC 2015, LDAV 2015, SC 2015
Area Co-Chair, Exhibits, IEEE Vis 2013-2014
Program Committee, ISVC 2014, SC 2014
Panelist and Program Committee, NIST workshop on Enabling Science From Big Image Data, 2014
Area Co-Chair, Exhibits, IEEE Vis 2013
Program Committee, ISVC 2013
Area Co-Chair, Publicity, IEEE Vis 2012
Area Chair, Visualization Showcase, XSEDE12
Program Committee, ISVC 2012
Program Committee, ISVC 2011
Area Chair, SciVis Contest, IEEE VIS 2010
Program Committee, ISVC 2010
Grant Proposal Reviewer, Indo-US Science and Technology Forum
Area Chair, SciVis Contest, IEEE VIS 2009
Area Co-Chair, SciVis Contest, IEEE VIS 2008
Prior years not available