BEI WANG PHILLIPS

Dr. Bei Wang Phillips is an Associate Professor in the School of Computing and a faculty member in the Scientific Computing and Imaging (SCI) Institute, University of Utah. She obtained her Ph.D. in Computer Science from Duke University. Her research focuses on topological data analysis, data visualization, and computational topology. She works on combining topological, geometric, statistical, data mining, and machine learning techniques with visualization to study large and complex data for information exploration and scientific discovery. Some of her current research activities involve the analysis and visualization of high-dimensional point clouds, scalar fields, vector fields, tensor fields, networks, and multivariate ensembles. Her research has been supported by multiple awards from NSF, NIH, and DOE. Dr. Phillips was a DOE Early Career Research Program (ECRP) awardee in 2020 and an NSF CAREER awardee in 2022. She was awarded the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) Award in 2025.