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TUSHAR ATHAWALE, PHD

Tushar Athawale is a Research Scientist in the visualization group (led by Dr. David Pugmire) within the Computer Science and Mathematics Division at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). He also holds a Joint Faculty Assistant Professor position in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville (UTK). He received PhD in Computer Science from the University of Florida in May, 2015 (advisor: Prof. Alireza Entezari). His research interests span across uncertainty visualization, statistical analysis, topological and large-scale analysis, and high-performance computing for efficient, accurate, and trustworthy scientific data discovery. He currently serves as an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics journal and a program chair for the IEEE VIS 2025 conference. Before joining ORNL, he was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Utah's Scientific Computing & Imaging (SCI) Institute from Oct, 2016 - Oct, 2021 (advisor: Prof. Chris R. Johnson). He was a full-time employee at MathWorks, the developer of the leading computing software MATLAB, before joining the SCI Institute.

PhD Dissertation:

Quantification and Visualization of Spatial Uncertainty in Isosurfaces for Parametric and Nonparametric Noise Models

T. M. Athawale
 [PhD dissertation preprint] [BibTex] [PhD defense presentation slides] [Proposal presentation slides] (University of Florida, ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 2015)
Defense committee: Dr. Alireza Entezari (Chair), Dr. Arunava Banerjee, Dr. Anand Rangarajan, Dr. Manuel Bermudez, and Dr. Haldun Aytug (External)
Abstract

 

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