Valerio Pascucci is the founding director of the Center for Extreme Data Management Analysis and Visualization (CEDMAV) of the University of Utah. Valerio is also a faculty of the Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute (SCI) and professor of the School of Computing, University of Utah; and a Laboratory Fellow of Pacific Northwest National Laboratory.

Before joining the University of Utah, Valerio was the data analysis group leader of the Center for Applied Scientific Computing at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, and adjunct professor of Computer Science at the University of California-Davis. Valerio's research interests include big data management and analytics, progressive multi-resolution techniques in scientific visualization, discrete topology, geometric compression, computer graphics, computational geometry, geometric programming, and solid modeling.

Valerio is the co-author of more than 100 refereed journal and conference papers and has been an associate editor of the IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics.