Highlights
- LDAV 2024 Best Paper Award
- CCGRID SCALE Challenge 2025 Finalist
- NASA JPL + NCAR collaborations
- ML and Azure AI Services
About
I am a fourth-year Ph.D. student in the Data Management and Analysis Track at the University of Utah, where my research focuses on developing interactive and scalable systems for large-scale scientific datasets. I design ML-driven workflows that combine intelligent automation, efficient storage, and interactive analysis to make massive datasets easier to visualize, analyze and understand.
Education
Salt Lake City, UT — Ph.D. Computer Science (Aug 2022 – Present)
University, MS — BS Computer Science, GPA: 3.84 (Aug 2017 – Apr 2021)
Experience
NSF NCAR — Visiting Scholar (Sep 2025)
Boulder, CO
NASA JPL — Machine Learning Intern (Jun 2025 – Aug 2025)
Pasadena, CA
ViSOAR LLC — Software Engineer (Apr 2023 – Present)
Salt Lake City, UT
NASA JPL — Software Engineer Intern (Jun 2023 – Aug 2023)
Pasadena, CA
SCI Institute, University of Utah — Graduate Research Assistant (Aug 2021 – Present)
Publications
Peer-Reviewed Journal
- Expanding Access to Science Participation: A FAIR Framework for Petascale Data Visualization and Analytics — Dec 2025. A. Panta, A. Sahistan, X. Huang, A. A. Gooch, G. Scorzelli, H. Torres, P. Klein, G. A. Ovando-Montejo, P. Lindstrom, V. Pascucci.
- "Enhancing Scientific Research with FAIR Digital Objects in the National Science Data Fabric — Sep 2023. M. Taufer, H. Martinez, J. Luettgau, L. Whitnah, G. Scorzelli, P. Newell, A. Panta, P.-T. Bremer, D. Fils, C. R. Kirkpatrick, and V. Pascucci. Computing in Science & Engineering, 25(5), 39–47.
Peer-Reviewed Conferences
- Data for Power Systems Applications: Lessons in Reusing Wildfire Smoke Data for Solar PV Studies — Aug 2025. A. Salinas, I. Sohail, V. Pascucci, P. Stefanakis, S. Amjad, A. Panta, et al. (HICSS 2026, To appear)
- Large Data Acquisition and Analytics at Synchrotron Radiation Facilities — 2025. A. Panta, G. Scorzelli, A. Gooch, W. Sun, K. Shanks, S. Sarker, D. Bougie, K. Soloway, R. Verberg, T. Berman, G. Tarcea, J. Allison, M. Taufer, V. Pascucci. (IEEE Big Data 2025)
- Visualization and Analytics of Petascale Data: Equity as a Tide that Lifts All Boats — Oct 2024. A. Panta, X. Huang, N. McCurdy, et al. (LDAV 2024)
Peer-Reviewed Workshops
Abstracts & Posters
- A Voice-Enabled AI Agent for Interactive Visualization and Analysis of NASA's Downscaled Dataset — Dec 2025, AGU.
- From Validation to Societal Value: A User-Centric Framework for Evaluating Regional Climate Models — Dec 2025, AGU.
- Scalable Web-Based Exploration and RAG-enhanced Insights for NASA's Downscaled Climate Data — May 2025, CNG Conference.
- Real-time Web-based Visualization and Analytics of Petascale Climate Data From the Cloud — Apr 2025, AGU Student Showcase.
- Managing Large-scale Atmospheric and Oceanic Climate Data for Efficient Analysis and On-the-fly Interactive Visualization — Dec 2024, AGU.
- Visualization of a Petascale Climate Data from a Browser: A NASA Usecase — Aug 2024, WIRED Symposium.
Projects
Unified & Interactive Framework for Data Intelligence
Azure AI Search + OpenAI + cloud-hosted climate data for natural-language querying, dynamic subsetting, and on-demand analytics.
Live DemoDynamic Super-Resolution for Multi-variate Climate Data
Custom CNN + upsampling with multi-quality inputs to reconstruct full-resolution fields on demand.
CodeOpenVisus
Python APIs & data-access plugins for high-performance streaming and multiresolution visualization.
WebsiteNASA AIST Open Climate Workbench
Scalable streaming, subsetting, and real-time visualization inside AIST OCW workflows.
SummarySkills
Web: React, Node/Express, MongoDB, MySQL, HTML5, CSS
Visualization: OpenVisus, ParaView, 3D Slicer, Bokeh, Panel
Languages & Services: Python, Azure, PHP, SQL, JavaScript, Git
Honors & Awards
- CCGRID International Scalable Computing Challenge(SCALE) 2025 — Finalist
- IEEE LDAV 2024 — Best Paper Award
- NSDF Fellow for Supercomputing 2024
Tutorials
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NASA ARSET Program: Assessing Extreme Weather Statistics using NASA Earth eXchange Global Daily Downscaled Projections (NEX-GDDP-CMIP6)Sep 2025
A. Mehta, B. Thrasher, H. K. Lee, A. Goodman, A. Panta, V. Pascucci, G. Scorzelli743 participants 93 countries -
Tutorial: Strategies for Large-Scale Data Analysis with the National Science Data Fabric (NSDF)Jun 2025
M. Taufer, V. Pascucci, J. Marquez, A. Gooch, A. Panta · IEEE IPDPS, 2025 -
Enabling Scientific Discovery: Harnessing the Power of the National Science Data Fabric for Large-Scale Data AnalysisNov 2024
V. Pascucci, A. Gooch, A. Panta, X. Huang, A. Sahıstan, G. Scorzelli, M. Taufer, J. Marquez, H. Martinez, P. Olaya, G. Laboy, J. Ashworth · IEEE VIS, 2024 -
Using the NSDF Services for End-to-End Analysis and Visualization of Large Scientific DataApr 2024
H. Martinez, A. Panta, P. Olaya, G. Laboy, J. Ashworth, G. Scorzelli, J. Marquez, V. Pascucci, M. Taufer · NSDF Webinar Series, 2024
Invited Presentations
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OpenVisus for Visualization of Petascale Scientific DataMar 2025
NASA Earth Exchange (NEX) Biweekly Meeting · Remote -
OpenVisus for Petascale Scientific VisualizationMar 2025
NCAR Earth System Data Science (ESDS) Initiative · Remote
Get in touch
Prefer email?
aashishpanta0@gmail.com