SCI alum Juliana Freire honored as an AAAS lifetime fellow

Congratulations to SCI alum Juliana Freire who has been honored as an AAAS lifetime fellow. In a tradition stretching back to 1874, the AAAS Council elects as Fellows a distinguished cadre of scientists, engineers, and innovators who have been recognized for their achievements across disciplines. The 2021 class of AAAS Fellows includes 564 scientists, engineers, […]

U of U Health Professor and SCI Collaborator Receives Pew Charitable Trust Innovation Award

Gabrielle Kardon, Ph.D., a professor of Human Genetics at University of Utah Health, is a recipient of a 2021 Pew Charitable Trust Innovation Award. She is one of 12 accomplished scientists with expertise in molecular biology, genetics, immunology, neuroscience, or other key fields who were selected to investigate critical issues linked to human health.

ShapeWorks 6.2 Now Available

We are excited to announce the new release of our software, ShapeWorks 6.2! To download installation packages for Windows/Mac/Linux and/or the source code, please visit https://github.com/SCIInstitute/ShapeWorks/releases/tag/v6.2.0

Moving Observatory Data Safely – HPC Wire Readers’ Choice Award

Bringing Fairness in AI to the Forefront of Education

Bei Wang Phillips, a Faculty at the SCI Institute and an Assistant Professor at the School of Computing, and Arul Mishra and Himanshu Mishra, both Professors of Marketing at the David Eccles School of Business applied for the competitive Deep Tech grant offered by the State of Utah’s Office of the Commissioner of Higher Education. […]

LDAV 2021 Best Paper Honorable Mention

Congratulations to Duong Hoang, Harsh Bhatia, Peter Lindstrom, and Valerio Pascucci on receiving best paper honorable mention at the IEEE Symposium on Large Data Analysis and Visualization (LDAV) for their paper titled “High-quality and Low-memory-footprint Progressive Decoding of Large-scale Particle Data.”

SCI at University of Utah Accelerates Visual Computing via oneAPI

oneAPI cross-architecture programming & Intel® oneAPI Rendering Toolkit to Improve Large-scale Simulations, Data Analytics & Visualization for Scientific Workflows [Oct. 26, 2021] – The Scientific Computing and Imaging (SCI) Institute at the University of Utah is pleased to announce that it is expanding its Intel Graphics and Visualization Institute of Xellence (Intel GVI) to an […]

Democratizing Data Access

The University of Utah’s Scientific Computing and Imaging (SCI) Institute is leading a new initiative to democratize data access. The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $5.6 million project to a team of researchers led by School of Computing professor Valerio Pascucci (pictured), who is also director of the Center for Extreme Data Management in […]

Chuck Hansen Elected to IEEE Board of Governors

Congratulations to Chuck Hansen on being elected to the IEEE Board of Governors for 2022. IEEE Computer Society relies on a fully elected Board of Governors (BOG) to drive its vision forward, provide policy guidance to program boards and committees, and review the performance of the organization to ensure compliance with its policy directions.

Valerio Pascucci Wins a NASA Earth Exchange Award

Valerio Pascucci won a NASA Earth Exchange (NEX) award entitled “A Flexible Encoding Framework and Autonomic Runtime System for Progressive Streaming of Scientific Data.” The one year, $100K award will help climate scientists study several terabytes of climate simulation datasets, manage workflows and reduce data management costs. The proposed software systems will advance the study […]