Vishal Sharma, Ph.D., MS, is an assistant professor of big data science at the Department of Healthcare Administration and Policy, School of Public Health. Sharma is part of the UNLV campus-wide cluster hire initiative.

Sharma did his postdoctoral research fellowship at Harvard Ophthalmology AI Lab. He holds Ph.D. and MS in Computer Science from Utah State University and B.Tech in Computer Science & Engineering from SRM Institute of Science & Technology, India. His academic research is focused on Data Mining & Artificial Intelligence, Medical Imaging, and Machine Learning for Systems (autonomous databases and compilers). During his tenure of about five years in the industry, he has worked at Intel, Micron, and McAfee.