Visualization, sometimes referred to as visual data analysis, uses the graphical representation of data as a means of gaining understanding and insight into the data. Visualization research at SCI has focused on applications spanning computational fluid dynamics, medical imaging and analysis, biomedical data analysis, healthcare data analysis, weather data analysis, poetry, network and graph analysis, financial data analysis, etc.
Research involves novel algorithm and technique development to building tools and systems that assist in the comprehension of massive amounts of (scientific) data. We also research the process of creating successful visualizations.
We strongly believe in the role of interactivity in visual data analysis. Therefore, much of our research is concerned with creating visualizations that are intuitive to interact with and also render at interactive rates.
Visualization at SCI includes the academic subfields of Scientific Visualization, Information Visualization and Visual Analytics.
SCI’s Expansive Presence at IEEE VIS 2025 Includes Best Paper and Test of Time Awards
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New Faculty Member Andrew McNutt Harnesses Vis Expertise to Make Computers Easier to Use
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SCI Marks One of Its Biggest Presences at Top Conference on Human-Computer Interaction
April 21, 2025 The University of Utah Scientific Computing and Imaging (SCI) Institute will have one of its…
SCI’s Strong Showing at IEEE VIS Includes Top Awards and Organizers
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The U Collaborates with Tulane on up to $23 Million Cancer Moonshot Project to Build Advanced Tumor Imaging System
August 15, 2024 Even as cancer treatment options are multiplying and becoming more sophisticated, one relatively straightforward approach…
NSF-Funded Team Launches reVISit—Pioneering Open-Source Software for Visualization Research
June 21, 2024 The Scientific Computing and Imaging (SCI) Institute today announced the launch of reVISit, a National…
Looking Toward an Election Year Through the Responsible AI Initiative
March 4, 2024 While AI poses risk against the upcoming election, the Responsible AI Initiative believes AI can…
Massive Image Dataset Blending
October 26, 2023 Read the full article on the Intel website The National Ecology Observatory Network (NEON) periodically…
University of Utah and University of Calgary Launch U.S.-Canada Center on Climate-Resilient Western Interconnected Grid
September 19, 2023 Through $5M funding by the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) and $3.75M funding by the…
Reimagining Data Visualization
April 26, 2023 By Despina GiannopoulosMarch 10, 2023 Youjia Zhou is a computing Ph.D. candidate at the University…
Dan Reed, Daniel Balouek-Thomert, and Manish Parashar Contribute Edge AI to Environmental Monitoring
November 2, 2022 Sage sensors monitor environment, support ‘edge AI’ Jesse Drake – University Information Technology Smokey Bear…
Ab Initio Visualization for Innovative Science
October 13, 2022
New oneAPI Center of Excellence at University of Utah with Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
September 15, 2022
reVISit: Scalable Empirical Evaluation of Interactive Visualizations
June 30, 2022 Congratulations to Alex Lex on his NSF award from the CISE Community Research Infrastructure program…
SCI at University of Utah Accelerates Visual Computing via oneAPI
October 25, 2021 oneAPI cross-architecture programming & Intel® oneAPI Rendering Toolkit to Improve Large-scale Simulations, Data Analytics &…
