Robert S Laramee, MSc, PhD, SFHEA
Research: Bob’s main research interests lie in data visualization including information visualization, scientific visualization and visual analytics. More specifically, he carries out research in the following topics: visualization literacy, explainable and visible AI, visualization and education, visualization for finance, visualization of health data including electronic health records, visible natural language processing, digital humanities, flow visualization including visualization of computational fluid dynamics simulations, visualization of molecular dynamics data, and more. Please have a look at his list of publications for more details and topics.
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Successful PhD and MRes Graduates in Data Visualization
[17] Qiru Wang, PhD, Visualization of Electronic Health Records Data 2019-2025. Wang successfully defended his EPSRC-funded thesis on 9 January 2025. He is now the CTO at RSS3.
[16] Elif E Firat, PhD, A Study of Advanced Visualization Literacy, 2018-2022. Elif successfully defended her thesis on 30 March 2022. She now works as an Assistant Professor at Cukurova University, Turkey. ( PDF of thesis )
[15] Mohammed Alharbi, PhD, Interactive Visualization of Translations, 2016-2021. Mohammed successfully defended his thesis on 21 May 2021. ( PDF of thesis )
[14] Dylan Rees, PhD, Agent-Centered Visualization of Call Centre Data, 2016-2020, in collaboration with QPC Ltd, sponsored by KESS 2. Dylan successfully defended his thesis on 19 June 2020. ( PDF of thesis )
[13] Naif Alharbi, PhD, Interactive Visualization of Molecular Dynamics Simulation Data, 2015-2019. Nai successfully defended his thesis on 17 October 2019. ( PDF of thesis )
[12] Liam McNabb, PhD, Dynamic Geospatial Visualization, 2016-2019, in collaboration with GoFore Ltd, sponsored by KESS 2. Liam successfully defended his thesis on 24 May 2019. ( PDF of thesis )
[11] Richard Roberts , PhD, Visualizing the Customer Journey Through the Call Centre Landscape, 2015-2019, in collaboration with QPC Ltd sponsored by KESS 2. Richard successfully defended his thesis on 23 January 2019. ( PDF of thesis )
[10] Chao Tong , PhD, Geo-Spatial Visualization of Population Healthcare Data, 2014-2018. Chao successfully defended his thesis on 15 October 2018. ( PDF of thesis )
[9] Dean Thomas, PhD, Topological Visualization Techniques to Enhance Understanding of Lattice QCD Simulations, 2014-2018, jointly supervised with Prof Simon Hands of Swansea University and Dr Rita Borgo of Kings College. Dean successfully defended his thesis on 11 January 2018.
[8] David Chung, PhD, High-dimensional, Glyph-based Visualization and Interactive Techniques, 2010-2015, jointly supervised with Prof Min Chen of Oxford University. Dave successfully defended his thesis on 21 November 2014. ( PDF of thesis )
[7] Matthew Edumunds, PhD, Stream Surface Seeding for Flow Visualization, 2010-2014. Matt successfully defended his PhD thesis on 9 January 2014. ( PDF of thesis )
[6] Dan Lipşa, PhD, Interactive Visualization of Foam Simulation Data, 2010-2014. Dan successfully defended his PhD Thesis on 16 December 2013. ( PDF of thesis )
[5] James Walker, MRes, Visualization of Large, High-Dimensional, Time-Dependent, Abstract Data 2011-2012. James successfully defended his MRes Thesis on 7 December 2012 and graduated with a PhD in Visualization from Swansea University in 2017. ( PDF , video of MRes Thesis results )
[4] Zhao Geng, PhD, Visual Analysis of Abstract, Multi-Dimensional Data with Parallel Coordinates, 2009-2012. Geng successfully defended his PhD Thesis on 5 November 2012. ( PDF of thesis )
[3] Tony McLoughlin, PhD, Interactive, 4D Flow Visualization Based on Integral Curves and Surfaces, 2007-2011. Tony successfully defended his PhD thesis on 8 December 2011. ( PDF of PhD Thesis )
[2] Bo Xia, MRes, Advanced Visualization of Electroencephalography (EEG) Data, 2010-2011. Bo successfully defended his MRes thesis on 18 November 2011. ( video of MRes Thesis results )
[1] Zhenmin Peng, PhD, Interactive Visualization of Computational Fluid Dynamics Data, 2007-2011. Peng successfully defended his PhD thesis on 19 September 2011. ( PDF of thesis )
Short Bio: Robert S. Laramee received a bachelors degree in physics, cum laude, from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He received a masters degree in computer science from the University of New Hampshire, Durham. He was awarded a PhD from the Vienna University of Technology (Gruess Gott TUWien), Austria. From 2001 to 2006 he was a researcher at the VRVis Research Center (www.vrvis.at) and a software engineer at AVL (www.avl.com) in the department of Advanced Simulation Technologies. He was a Lecturer, then Associate Professor at Swansea University (Prifysgol Cymru Abertawe), Wales in the Department of Computer Science (Adran Gwyddor Cyfrifiadur). He joined the University of Nottingham in 2020 and was promoted to Professor in the School of Computer Science in 2023. He has published more than 200 peer-reviewed papers in scientific journals and conferences.
