Alark Joshi

Professor Alark Joshi is a Professor of Computer Science at the University of San Francisco and serves as the Department Chair. His research focuses on data visualization and visualization literacy, with particular emphasis on how novel visualization techniques can effectively communicate complex information to support decision making and discovery. His work spans a wide range of application domains, including neurosurgical planning and treatment, medical imaging, computational fluid dynamics, atmospheric physics, and cell biology. A central theme of his research is evaluating how people interpret and learn from visual representations, and how visualization techniques can be designed to improve understanding, insight, and collaboration. Professor Joshi received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Maryland, held a postdoctoral appointment at Yale University, and previously served as a faculty member at Boise State University. His contributions to visualization research and education have been recognized with multiple teaching and panel awards at the University of San Francisco and IEEE Visualization conferences.