Director of the Space Visualization Laboratory, Adler Planetarium
SubbaRao is an astronomer and director of the Space Visualization Laboratory at the Adler Planetarium. His area of research is cosmology, particularly the large-scale structure of the universe. He was a builder of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, which produced a 3D map of over 1 million galaxies. SubbaRao uses the capabilities of the Adler’s immersive theaters in his scientific visualization work. He chairs the Science and Data Visualization Task Force of the International Planetarium Society. He is also the creator of the sky shows Planet Nine, Cosmic Wonder, and Welcome to the Universe.