Harsh Bhatia

Harsh Bhatia

Computer Scientist
Center for Applied Scientific Computing, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

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Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, P.O. Box 808, L-478, Livermore, CA - 94551

Ph.D. in Computing (Graphics and Visualization) @ SCI Institute, The University of Utah, USA

I completed my Ph.D. at the Scientific Computing and Imaging (SCI) Institute, the University of Utah. I worked under the guidance of Prof. Valerio Pascucci at the SCI Institute, and Dr. Peer-Timo Bremer, at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL). My Ph.D. research focused on the analysis of vector fields. In particular, I developed new representations and theories to perform consistent feature extraction from vector field data.

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In Fall 2008, I joined SCI as a student for the M.S. in the Computational Engineering and Science (CES) program. CES is an interdisciplinary program that gave me the flexibility to study the entire simulation pipeline ranging from modeling a real world problem, to solving it and then visualizing it. Inspired and intrigued by the various fields I got to explore during my M.S., in Spring 2011, I converted to the Ph.D. in Computing program with a focus in Graphics and Visualization. In January 2012, I was awarded the Lawrence Graduate Scholarship which funded my graduate research. I successfully defended my thesis on October 30, 2014.

Ph.D. Supervisory Committee

  1. Prof. Valerio Pascucci [Ph.D. Advisor]
  2. Dr. Adam W Bargteil
  3. Dr. Peer-Timo Bremer
  4. Prof. Christopher R Johnson
  5. Prof. Robert M Kirby

Check out my academic geneology.

Graduate Coursework

  1. Introduction to Image Processing - Prof. Ross Whitaker
  2. Scientific Writing - Prof. James Koford
  3. Computer Aided Geometric Design - Prof. Elaine Cohen
  4. Modeling Data with Uncertainty (Algorithms Seminar) - Dr. Jeff Phillips
  5. Advanced Scientific Computing II - Prof. Kris Sikorski
  6. Interactive Computer Graphics - Prof. Chuck Hansen
  7. Machine Learning - Dr. Hal Daume III
  8. Mathematical Modeling - Prof. Graeme Milton
  9. Computational Topology - Prof. Valerio Pascucci
  10. Geometry Processing - Dr. Claudio T Silva
  11. Introduction to Partial Differential Equations - Prof. Klaus Schmitt
  12. Advanced Scientific Computing I - Prof. Kris Sikorski
  13. Scientific Visualization - Dr. Claudio T Silva
  14. Independent Study on Vector Field Topology - Prof. Valerio Pascucci


B.Tech. in Information & Communication Technology @ DA-IICT, India

Before joining the University of Utah, I completed my Bachelors in Information & Communication Technology from Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology (DA-IICT), Gandhinagar, India. There, I was involved with the MAGNeT group in understanding the dynamics of ad-hoc networks.

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