Parashar Named Presidential Professor

The title of Presidential Professor is reserved for those with achievements that “exemplify the highest goals of scholarship as demonstrated by recognition accorded to them from peers with national and international stature and whose record includes evidence of a high dedication to teaching.”
reVISit: Scalable Empirical Evaluation of Interactive Visualizations

Bei Wang Wins NSF Career Award

Best Paper Award at PASC22

J.K. Holmen, D. Sahasrabudhe, M. Berzins. “Porting Uintah to Heterogeneous Systems,” In Proceedings of the Platform for Advanced Scientific Computing Conference (PASC22), ACM, 2022.
MRgFUS: A tissue viability imaging biomarker for use in non-invasive breast cancer therapy

More women are diagnosed with breast cancer than any other type of cancer, besides skin cancer. This year, an estimated 281,550 women in the United States will be diagnosed with invasive breast cancer, and 49,290 women will be diagnosed with non-invasive (in situ) breast cancer. From 2008 to 2017, invasive breast cancer in women increased by half a percent each year.
Best Paper Awarded at IEEE Pacific Visualization 2022

AMM: Adaptive Multilinear Meshes
SCI alum Juliana Freire 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, and innovators spanning 24 disciplines.
Moving Observatory Data Safely - HPC Wire Readers' Choice Award


Fortunately, no one was hurt, but the question remained: What about the invaluable astronomical and atmospheric science data that was collected for decades by the observatory’s 1,000-foot-wide reflector dish? University of Utah Scientific Computing and Imaging (SCI) Institute and School of Computing professor Valerio Pascucci and U faculty members were part of a consortium of researchers responsible for retrieving that precious data and moving it to a safe location.
Bringing Fairness in AI to the Forefront of Education
LDAV 2021 Best Paper Honorable Mention
