Shin-Rong Tsai is a research scientist at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign School of Information Sciences. She has worked on developing astrophysics simulations, processing and visualizing data, and improving application performance when scaling to high-performance computing platforms. Her work now focuses on creating an in situ analysis tool that enables Python-based data analysis of running simulations. She also develops tools for analyzing and visualizing volumetric data.