Valerio Pascucci portrait
  • John R. Parks Inaugural Endowed Chair, University of Utah, School Of Computing
  • Director, University of Utah-Center for Extreme Data Management, Analysis, and Visualiaztion
  • Faculty, Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute
  • Professor, School Of Computing
  • Laboratory Fellow, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
  • Honorary Professors, School Of Business, Amity University
  • Director of National Science Data Democratization Consortium
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Professional Service

  • IEEE Escience conference. General Chair. 03/01/2021 - 10/28/2022
  • IEEE VIS conference. Role: Co-Chair. Supporter Chair for the . 01/01/2021 - 10/29/2021
  • IEEE. Role: General Chair. General Chair for the IEEE VIS 2020 http://ieeevis.org/year/2020/welcome. 01/01/2020 - 10/31/2020
  • ASCR Collaborative Projects. Role: committee member. planning. 08/2019 - 12/2019
  • DOE Artificial Intelligence Summit. Role: committee member. Planning. 08/2019 - 12/2019
  • NSF Large Facilities Cyberinfastructure workshop. Role: committee member. planning. 08/2019 - 10/2019
  • NSF. Role: Organizer and Chair of Steering Commitee. NSF Workshop on Smart Cyberinfrastructure (http://smartci2020.org/). 08/01/2019 - present
  • NSF. Role: committee member. Advisory Board. 01/2019 - 01/2020
  • InSitu Data Management workshop. Role: committee member. planning. 01/2019 - 12/2019
  • AI Town Hall Meeting. Role: committee member. planning. 01/2019 - 12/2019
  • Prism Center Workhop. Role: committee member. planning. 01/2019 - 12/2019
  • Machine Learning Workshop Panel. Role: committee member. Planning. 01/2019 - 12/2019
  • ACCI Spring meeting. Role: committee member. Planning. 01/2019 - 12/2019
  • NSF NeuroNex reverse site visit panel V190921. Role: committee member. planning. 01/2019 - 12/2019
  • AICAI 2019. Role: committee member. planning. 01/2019 - 12/2019
  • National Science Foundation. Role: committee member. Member of NSF's Advisory Committee for Cyberinfrastructure (ACCI)_. 01/01/2019 - present
  • IEEE DataCom 2018. Role: committee member. Organizing Committee. 01/2018 - 12/2018
  • ACCI. Role: committee member. Planning. 01/2018 - 12/2018
  • DOE Systems Analysis and Integration Meeting. Role: committee member. planning . 01/2018 - 12/2018
  • Big Data Hub. Role: committee member. organizing committee. 01/2018 - 12/2018
  • IEEE 3D Medical Workshop & IEEE 3D Medical WG meeting. Role: Host, Chair, and organize. Chair, and organize workshop. 01/01/2014 - 01/30/2014
  • 2013 Computational Visual Media Conference, CVM 2013. Member of Program Committe. 02/15/2013 - 09/15/2013
  • 2013 Fourth International Conference on Cloud Computing, GRIDs, and Virtualization, (Cloud Computing 2013). member of Program Committee. 01/30/2013 - 06/30/2013
  • 2013 Workshops on Computational Geometry (held in conjunction with SoCG), WoCG 2013. Role: member of Program Committee. 01/30/2013 - 06/30/2013
  • Supercomputing 2013. Role: Member of Program Committe. 2013 ACM/IEEE conference on Supercomputing, Scienti fic Visualization Showcase (SC13). 01/15/2013 - 07/05/2013
  • 2013 ACM/IEEE conference on Supercomputing (SC13). Member of Program Committe. 01/15/2013 - 07/05/2013
  • 2013 Eurographics/IEEE, EuroVis 2013. Member of Program Committe. 01/15/2013 - 07/05/2013
  • 2013 ACM/IEEE Ultrascale Visualization Workshop (held in conjunction with SC13). Member of Program Committe. 01/15/2013 - 07/05/2013
  • Computational Visual Media Conference. Committee Member. 09/2012 - present
  • Workshops on Computational Geometry in conjunction with SoCG. Committee member. 09/2012 - present
  • Fourth International Conference on Cloud Computing 2013. Committee Member. 09/2012 - present
  • DOE Early Career Reaearch Program Panel. Panel Member. 09/2012 - present
  • 3rd Int'l Emerging Computational Methods for the Life Sciences Workshlp. Committee member. 05/2012 - present
  • TopoInVis 2013. Role: Co-Chair and Organizer. Program Co-Chair and Organizer of TopoInVis 2013, International Workshop on Topological Methods in Data Analysis and Visualization. 02/15/2012 - 12/15/2013
  • TopoInVis 2013. Program Co-Chair and Organizer. 11/2011 - present
  • IEEE Eurographics 2013. Committee Member. 10/2011 - present
  • Eurographics/IEEE, EuroVis 2012. Committee member. 09/2011 - present
  • IEEE Visualization Conference 2012. Committee member. 09/2011 - present
  • ACM/IEEE Conference on Supercomputing 2012. Committee member. 07/2011 - present
  • Human-Computer Interaction & Knowledge Discovery 2012. Committee member. 05/2011 - present
  • ECMLS 2012. Committee Member. 02/2011 - 01/2013
  • ACM Symposium on Comutational Geometry. Co-Chair. 01/2011 - present
  • Super Computing 2011. Program Committee member. 01/2011 - present
  • Super Computing 2012. Committee organizer, member. 01/2011 - present
  • Eurographics Conference (EG11). Program Committee Member. 01/2010 - 02/2012
  • SIAM/ACM Joint Conference on Geometric and Physical Modeling (GD/SPM11). Program Committee Member. 01/2010 - 02/2012
  • IEEE Symposium on Large-Scale Data Analysis and Visualization (LDAV11). Program Committee Member. 01/2010 - 02/2012
  • Workshop on Emerging Computational Methods for the Life Sciences (HPDC 2011). Program Committee Member. 01/2010 - 02/2012
  • 7th International Symposium on Visual Computing (ISVC11). Program Committee Member. 01/2010 - 02/2012
  • Siggrapi Conference on Graphics, Patterns and Images. Program Committee Member. 01/2010 - 02/2012
  • IEEE Visualization Conference. Program committee member. 01/2010 - 01/2012

Honors & Awards

  • IEEE VGTC Visualization Technical Achievement Award. IEEE VGTC, 10/2022
  • 14 Year Test of Time Award. IEEE Scientific Visualization Conference, 10/2022
  • Inducted in the IEEE VGTC Visualization Academy. IEEE VGTC, 10/2022
  • Best paper, AMM: Adaptive Multilinear Meshes. PacificVis 2022, 03/2022
  • Best paper honorable mention. IEEE Visualization Conference, 10/29/2019
  • Distinguished Mentor Award. University of Utah, 05/05/2016
  • Large-Scale Data Analysis and Visualization, Best Paper Award. IEEE Symposium, 09/2012
  • Large-Scale Data Analysis and Visualization, Best Paper Honorable Mention. IEEE Symposium, 09/2012
  • Harsh Bhatia, Shreeraj Jadhav, Peer-Timo Bremer, Guoning Chen, Joshua A. Levine, Luis Gustavo Nonato, and Valerio Pascucci. Edge maps: Representing flow with bounded error. In 4th Pacific Visualization Symposium, pages 75-82, Hong Kong, China, March 2011. IEEE. Best Paper Award. 03/2011
  • DOE Laboratory Fellow. Department of Energy (DOE) Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), 01/09/2011

Internal Service

  • Organizing and Leading the meeting. 08/2021 - present. Department service.
  • RPT-Jason Weise and Ponnuswamy Sadayappan . 01/2020 - 07/2021. Department service.
  • RPTs-Alex Lex, Tucker Hermans. 01/2019 - 12/2019. Department service.
  • RPT Preparation workshop. Leading meetings, 01/2019 - 12/2019. Department service.
  • Peer-teaching-Matt Flatt, Mahdi Nazm Bojnordi. Review teaching, 01/2019 - 12/2019. Department service.
  • RPT Committee for Miriah Meyer. Chair, 09/15/2016 - 12/31/2016. Department service.
  • Peer review Alex Lex. Chair, 05/15/2016 - 08/15/2019. Department service.
  • Big Data Hiring sub-committee. Host: Stefano Ermon. Host, 01/30/2014 - 02/20/2014. Department service.
  • Member of RPT subcommittee for Adam Bargeil. 09/2011 - present. Department service.
  • Visualization hiring sub-committee. Member, 09/2011 - present. College service.
  • RPT sub-committee for Mary Hall. Member, 09/2011 - present. College service.
  • Member of the RPT subcommittee for Mary Hall. 09/2011 - present. Department service.
  • Coordinate the Creation of a Data Center Engineering Program. Leader/Coordinato, 09/09/2010 - present. College service.
  • Chair of large data hiring subcommittee. Hire 2 new faculty in the School of Computing . Chair of large data hiring subcommittee, 09/2010 - 07/07/2011. Department service.
  • Graphics and Visualization track. Director , 09/2009 - 04/2012. College service.

Community Partnership

  • Develop National Science Data Democratization Consortium, a partnership between industry and academia . 06/15/2022 - present

Outreach

  • Deployed Visoar for teaching a histology class in collaboration with Mohamed Salama (ARUP) Rich Ash from the Professor of Neurobiology and Anatomy. 01/2014 - 05/2014

In the Media

  • Fox News-In-Depth:U of U scientists join effort to keep data secure. 07/2021. https://youtu.be/bCoes8jz5zA
  • New undergraduate program for a story that will air this afternoon on KCPW radio. Kim Schuske, Reporter KCPW 801-856-1614 . 10/10/2013.
  • The Daily Utah Chronicle, Nathan Turner wrote article on the Data Center Engineering Certificate passes the Academic Senate. 10/08/2013.
  • Channel 2, Rod Decker reports on the NSA, China hacking and others. 03/25/2013. http://www.kutv.com/news/top-stories/stories/vid_4...
  • Rod Decker reported on the NSA coming to Utah and interviewed Valerio Pascucci on the subject of CEDMAV. 02/27/2012. http://connect2utah.com/news/features/local/storie...
  • Channel 2 news-NSA story. 02/27/2012. http://www.connect2utah.com/news/features/local/st...
  • CEDMAV in the Deseret News. 11/03/2011. http://www.deseretnews.com/article/705393699/New-U...
  • e! Science News - Getting the big picture quickly http://esciencenews.com/articles/2010/10/26/getting.big.picture.quickly. 11/2010.
  • Hindustan Times - New software helps edit billions of pixels in seconds http://www.hindustantimes.com/New-software-helps-edit-billions-of-pixels-in-seconds/Article1-620408.aspx. 11/2010.
  • Birmingham Star - New software helps edit billions of pixels in seconds http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/701642/cs/1/. 11/2010.
  • MyNews, India - New software helps edit billions of pixels in seconds http://www.mynews.in/News/new_software_helps_edit_billions_of_pixels_in_seconds_N105256.html. 11/2010.
  • International Business Times, New York - Extreme Resolution Photography Finds A New Home http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/76748/20101028/photography-high-resolution-image-editing-scientific-computing-and-imaging.htm. 11/2010.
  • TG Daily - Software edits huge images in seconds instead of hours . 11/2010.
  • PhysOrg.com - Getting the big picture quickly: Software edits huge images in seconds instead of hours http://www.physorg.com/news/2010-10-big-picture-quickly-software-huge.html. 11/2010.
  • Spectroscopy Now - Gigapixel software - 'zoom and enhance' for MRI http://www.spectroscopynow.com/coi/cda/detail.cda?id=24420&type=Feature&chId=3&page=1. 11/2010.
  • Gizmag - New software processes hundred-billion-pixel photos in seconds http://www.gizmag.com/visus-editing-software-processes-gigapixel-images-in-seconds/16778/. 11/2010.
  • Gizmag - New software processes hundred-billion-pixel photos in seconds http://www.gizmag.com/visus-editing-software-processes-gigapixel-images-in-seconds/16778/. 11/2010.
  • Medical Daily - Software cuts time to edit larger than life images http://www.medicaldaily.com/news/20101027/2978/software-cuts-time-to-edit-larger-than-life-imagesin-what-could-be-a-boon-to-engineers-intelligence.htm. 11/2010.
  • HPC Whire - Software Speeds Up the Processing of Gigapixel Images http://www.hpcwire.com/offthewire/Software-Speeds-Up-the-Processing-of-Gigapixel-Images-105899123.html?ref=123. 11/2010.
  • R & D Magazine - Getting the big picture quickly http://www.rdmag.com/News/Feeds/2010/10/environment-getting-the-big-picture-quickly/. 11/2010.
  • Genetic Engineering News - Getting the big picture quickly http://www.genengnews.com/industry-updates/getting-the-big-picture-quickly/98331570/. 11/2010.
  • Dr. Dobb’s (software development) Journal - Getting the (Really) Big Picture Quickly http://www.drdobbs.com/tools/228000166;jsessionid=MHX1MNXUB41MTQE1GHRSKHWATMY32JVN. 11/2010.
  • Domain-B - Getting the big picture quickly http://www.domain-b.com/technology/2010/20101101_big_picture_quickly.html. 11/2010.
  • Sify, India - New software helps edit billions of pixels in seconds http://sify.com/news/new-software-helps-edit-billions-of-pixels-in-seconds-news-international-kk5rumegcjb.html. 11/2010.
  • Mangalorean, India - New software helps edit billions of pixels in seconds http://topinews.com/mainstream/2010/10/31/new-software-helps-edit-billions-of-pixels-in-seconds/44202/. 11/2010.
  • Thaindian News - New software helps edit billions of pixels in seconds http://www.thaindian.com/newsportal/sci-tech/new-software-helps-edit-billions-of-pixels-in-seconds_100452752.html. 11/2010.
  • New DesignWorld - Getting the Big Picture Quickly http://155.98.58.175/Getting%20the%20Big%20Picture%20Quickly. 11/2010.
  • Chem.Info - Getting The Big Picture Quickly http://www.chem.info/News/Feeds/2010/10/topics-software-getting-the-big-picture-quickly/. 11/2010.
  • Eureka! Science News - Getting The Big Picture Quickly http://esciencenews.com/articles/2010/10/26/getting.big.picture.quickly. 11/2010.
  • Newswise - Getting the Big Picture Quickly with Speedy Software http://www.newswise.com/articles/getting-the-big-picture-quickly-with-speedy-software. 11/2010.
  • Malaysian Sun - New software helps edit billions of pixels in seconds http://story.malaysiasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/701642/cs/1/. 11/2010.
  • Khabrein, India - New software helps edit billions of pixels in seconds http://www.khabrein.info/news/New_software_helps_edit_billions_of_pixels_in_seconds_1288589905/. 11/2010.
  • Silicon India - New software helps edit billions of pixels in seconds http://www.siliconindia.com/shownews/New_software_helps_edit_billions_of_pixels_in_seconds-nid-73368.html. 11/2010.
  • Sify, India - New software helps edit billions of pixels in seconds. 11/2010.
  • TopNews, India - New software helps edit billions of pixels in seconds http://topinews.com/mainstream/2010/10/31/new-software-helps-edit-billions-of-pixels-in-seconds/44202/. 11/2010.
  • Eurasian Review - New Software Helps Get The Big Picture Quickly http://www.eurasiareview.com/201010299306/new-software-helps-get-the-big-picture-quickly.html. 11/2010.
  • NSF, News From the Field Getting the Big Picture Quickly http://www.eurasiareview.com/201010299306/new-software-helps-get-the-big-picture-quickly.html. 11/2010.