Highlights
- Agentic AI Engineer Intern @ NASA JPL
- Co-Chair, IEEE SciVis Contest 2026
- CCGRID SCALE Challenge 2025 Finalist
- LDAV 2024 Best Paper Award
About
I am a fifth-year Ph.D. candidate 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 2021 – Present)
University, MS — BS Computer Science, GPA: 3.84 (Aug 2017 – May 2021)
Experience
NASA JPL — Agentic AI Engineer Intern (Jun 2026 – Present)
Pasadena, CA
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 – Dec 2023)
Pasadena, CA
SCI Institute, University of Utah — Graduate Research Assistant (Aug 2021 – Present)
Publications
Peer-Reviewed Journal
- The Making of a Community Dark Matter Dataset with the National Science Data Fabric — Apr 2026. A. Roberts, J. Marquez, K. H. NG, K. Mickelson, A. Panta, G. Scorzelli, A. Gooch, P. Cushman, M. Fritts, H. Neog, V. Pascucci, M. Taufer. Computing in Science & Engineering.
- 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. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics.
- "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
- Animating Petascale Time-varying Data on Commodity Hardware with LLM-assisted Scripting — Apr 2026. I. Jahan Eliza, X. Huang, A. Panta, A. Sahistan, Z. Li, A. Gooch, V. Pascucci. (ICBDA 2026)
- Climate 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)
- Large Data Acquisition and Analytics at Synchrotron Radiation Facilities — Dec 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)
- Web-based 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
- Multi-Agent Discovery and Resource-Aware Autonomous Exploration of Scientific Datasets — Aug 2026. A. Panta, H. Lee, G. Scorzelli, K. Yun, V. Pascucci. (AGENT4SC @ IEEE eScience 2026, To appear)
- Scalable Climate Data Analysis: Balancing Petascale Fidelity and Computational Cost — May 2025.
- Leveraging National Science Data Fabric Services to Train Data Scientists — Nov 2024.
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
- Co-Chair, IEEE SciVis Contest 2026
- Member, IEEE VIS Organizing Committee
- 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)2026
M. Taufer, V. Pascucci, J. Marquez, A. Gooch, A. Panta · EuroVis, 2026 -
Tutorial: Strategies for Large-Scale Data Analysis with the National Science Data Fabric (NSDF)2026
M. Taufer, V. Pascucci, J. Marquez, A. Gooch, A. Panta · ACM Summer School, Barcelona, 2026 -
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
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aashishpanta0@gmail.com