I’m a Computer Scientist at the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility and Adjunct Research Professor at the University of Illinois Chicago, where I build visualization tools that turn petabyte-scale simulations on the world’s fastest supercomputers into actionable scientific insight. Recent work has won Best Paper at ISAV 2023 and 2024 and 1st place at the IEEE SciVis Contest 2023.

My research lives at the intersection of scientific visualization, human-computer interaction, and high-performance computing — instrumenting in-situ libraries like ASCENT and SENSEI for exascale platforms, designing immersive XR interfaces for data exploration, and prototyping the next generation of human–AI collaboration tools. I serve as General Chair of IEEE VIS 2027 in Chicago, General Co-Chair of ISAV 2026 at SC26, founded ChicagoCHI (the SIGCHI local chapter), and hold patents from work at Microsoft Research and GN Hearing.

Earlier projects include SpiderSense (a wearable that lets you “feel” your surroundings, notably featured in Forbes, Popular Mechanics, and on Discovery Channel, and exhibited at Chicago’s Museum of Science and Industry), contributions to Pixar’s USD and DreamWorks’ Premo, and SAGE2 — a collaboration platform for large-display walls used at dozens of institutions worldwide.

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I'm always open to collaborations with research groups, domain scientists, and industry teams working at the frontier of visualization, HCI, and HPC. If you have a hard problem at the intersection of these areas, let's talk.

I also take on select consulting engagements — from immersive data visualization for research labs, to XR / digital twin prototyping for industry. As a TEDx speaker and frequent keynote presenter (most recently at Augmented World Expo), I'm available for invited talks, panels, and conference programs. Get in touch.