Tushar Athawale

Tushar Athawale is a Research Scientist at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) and a Joint Faculty Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. His primary research focuses on uncertainty visualization, statistical data analysis, and high-performance computing for large-scale scientific data. He holds a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Florida (2015) and has held roles including Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Utah's Scientific Computing & Imaging Institute and Application Support Engineer at MathWorks.

His academic and professional affiliations include ORNL's Computer Science and Mathematics Division, the IEEE Visualization Conference program chair (2025), and associate editor for IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics. He has organized workshops, tutorials, and served on program committees for major visualization conferences.

Key research interests span uncertainty quantification, topological methods, and visualization techniques for biomedical imaging, fusion simulations, and quantum computing. His work emphasizes trustworthy scientific data analysis through advanced visualization frameworks like VTK-m and implicit neural representations.

Awards include ORNL's 2024 Special Award and Best Paper Honorable Mention at the IEEE Uncertainty Visualization Workshop 2024. His contributions bridge visualization theory with practical applications in exascale computing and AI-driven decision-making.