Wathsala Nayomi Widanagamaachchi

I am a Computer Science PhD student in the Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute at University of Utah. My advisor is Dr. Valerio Pascucci and my primary research interests are in Scientific Visualization, Computer Graphics and Image Processing. Together with my advisor and Dr. Peer-Timo Bremer, I work on a topology based framework which allows interactive exploration of large-scale, time-varying datasets.

Apart from that, my research also includes a scalable data-parallel halo-finder operator in PISTON (with Dr. Chris Sewell & Dr. Jim Ahrens) and Ray graphs, a flexible framework for space and time exploring panoramas (with Dr. Paul Rosen).

For more information, be sure to download my résumé. (updated 08/2013)

I am originally from Sri Lanka, small but a beautiful island located in the indian ocean. There, I completed my undergraduate degree in computer science from the School of Computing of the University of Colombo in 2009. As an undergrad, I conducted my research with Dr. Anuja Dharmaratne which involved facial emotion recognition and 3D face reconstruction.

Currently, I live in Salt Lake City, Utah, with my husband, Lalindra De Silva who is also a PhD student at the University of Utah.

Contact Details

Address

Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute

72 S Central Campus Drive, Room 3750

Salt Lake City, UT 84112

Email

wathsy[at]sci[dot]utah[dot]edu

widanaga[at]cs[dot]utah[dot]edu