Chahat Kalsi


Chahat Kalsi

PhD Student
Computer Science, New York University

I am a PhD student in Computer Science at New York University (NYU)’s VIDA Center, where, advised by Robert Krueger and Qi Sun, I am currently researching visualization and visual analytics for 3D microscopy volumes.

I did my MS in Computer Science at Stony Brook University (SBU), where, advised by Arie Kaufman, my research primarily focused on virtual reality visualization techniques for Large Wall Displays (LWDs).

GitHub · LinkedIn · Google Scholar · chahat.kalsi@nyu.edu

PhD, Computer Science • 2025-Present
M.S., Computer Science • 2023-2025
B.E., Computer Science • 2019-2023

Awards & Honours

  • Award of Excellence for "BioSET: Biomarker-based Spatial co-Expression analysis in Tumor environments" - Bio+Med Vis Challenge, IEEE VIS, 2025
  • School of Engineering Fellowship - New York University, Tandon, 2025-26
  • Graduate Fee Scholarship - Stony Brook University, 2024-25
  • Graduate Tuition Scholarship - Stony Brook University, 2024-25
  • Graduate International Students' Fee Scholarship - Stony Brook University, 2024-25
  • Overall Third in HackUIET 2021 (Hackathon) - UIET, Panjab University, 2021
  • Best Solo in HackUIET 2021 (Hackathon) - UIET, Panjab University, 2021
  • Overall First in the category "Make Your Own Social Media Website" in HackHer413 2021 (Hackathon) - University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2021

Publications

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    BioSET: Biomarker-based Spatial co-Expression analysis in Tumor environments.
    Chahat Kalsi, Yuancheng Shen, Sophia Gaupp, Luca Reichmann, Meri Rogava, Michael Krone, Saeed Boorboor, and Robert Krueger
    Bio+MedVis Challenge, IEEE Visualization (VIS), 2025. (Award of Excellence)
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    Vox-Insight: Visualization Tool for Multimodal Medical Imaging Data.
    Chahat Kalsi, and Ashwani Rathee
    Posters, IEEE Visualization (VIS), 2025.
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    AuxiScope: Handheld Augmented Reality Tablet as an Auxiliary Display for Large-Scale Display Systems.
    Matthew Castellana, Chahat Kalsi, Yoonsang Kim, Saeed Boorboor, and Arie Kaufman
    IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR), 2025.
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    Silo: Half-Gigapixel Cylindrical Stereoscopic Immersive Display.
    Saeed Boorboor, Doris Gutiérrez-Rosales, Ahamed Shoaib, Chahat Kalsi, Yue Wang, Yuyang Cao, Xianfeng Gu, and Arie Kaufman
    IEEE Conference Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces (VR), 2025.
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    Interactivity for Immersive Volume Visualization.
    Chahat Kalsi
    2024.

Teaching

  • Teaching Assistant for Information Visualization - New York University, Fall 2025 - Teaching assistant for the graduate level Information Visualization course with 50+ students.
  • Teaching Assistant for Computer Graphics - Stony Brook University, Fall 2024 - Teaching assistant for the graduate level Computer Graphics course with 30+ students.

Art

These are some pages from my many watercolor journals, most of them painted live on location - usually very quickly, but with a lot of heart! Those marked with a "†" are painted using references from the internet, and those marked with a "*" are original works.

Like my art? Here’s where you can see more of it!