Academic Staff
Dr Sara Johansson Fernstad
Senior Lecturer, Director of Postgraduate Research
Scalable Computing
sara.fernstad@newcastle.ac.uk
Sara is a Senior Lecturer in Data Science with expertise in visualization. She is the Director of Postgraduate Research in the School of Computing.
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Dr Alma Cantu
Lecturer
Scalable Computing
alma.cantu@newcastle.ac.uk
Alma is a Lecture in Data Science in the School of Computing. She specialises in Data Visualization, investigating human perception to improve visualisation of complex data.
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Professor Daniel Archambault
Professor
Scalable Computing
daniel.archambault@newcastle.ac.uk
Daniel is a Professor of Visualization/Data Science. His research helps visualisation and visual analytics systems scale to the age of data science.
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Dr Xinhuan Shu
Lecturer
Scalable Computing
xinhuan.shu@newcastle.ac.uk
Xinhuan is a Lecturer in Computer Science.
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Research Associates
Dr Alexander Macquisten
Research Associate
Scalable Computing
alexander.macquisten@newcastle.ac.uk
Alexander is a Research Associate in Data Science In the School of Computing. They are currently working on machine learning and data visualization solutions to disaggregate home water usage.
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PhD Students
Osman Akbulut
PhD student
Scalable Computing
o.akbulut2@newcastle.ac.uk
Osman is a 4th-year PhD student at Newcastle University. His dissertation studies how to design an optimal visualisation model that helps target users to efficiently explore complex graphs.
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Aljawharah Almajyul
PhD student
Scalable Computing
a.a.n.almajyul2@newcastle.ac.uk
Aljawharah Almajyul is a PhD student in the School of Computing at Newcastle University, where she research complex network graph visualization.
Lama Alsmmahi
PhD student
Scalable Computing
l.alsmmahi2@newcastle.ac.uk
Lama is a Phd Student interested in data visualization and machine learning. She is also a lecturer in the Data Science department at University of Jeddah.
Sarah Alsufyani
PhD student
Scalable Computing
s.h.h.alsufyani2@newcastle.ac.uk
Sarah is currently a PhD student in the School of Computing at Newcastle University, researching visualization for investigation of data quality in health data.
Hanin Alzahrani
PhD student
Scalable Computing
h.s.s.alzahrani2@newcastle.ac.uk
Hanin is a PhD student in Data Visualization at Newcastle University, and a teaching assistant in the Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology of Al Baha University, Saudi Arabia.
Hugh Garner
PhD student
Scalable Computing
h.garner2@newcastle.ac.uk
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Lucy Mclaughlin
PhD student
Scalable Computing
l.mclaughlin3@newcastle.ac.uk
Lucy is a PhD student in the School of Computing, where she researches the use of shape for uncertainty representation in multivariate data.
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Research Software Engineers
Dr Mike Simpson
Research Software Engineer
Research Software Engineering Team
mike.simpson@newcastle.ac.uk
Mike is a Research Software Engineer at Newcastle University, with a background in game development and data visualisation.
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Dr Gabrielle Schroeder
Research Software Engineer
Research Software Engineering Team
gabrielle.schroeder@newcastle.ac.uk
Gabrielle is a Research Software Engineer at Newcastle University with a background in data science and computational neuroscience.
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Past NoVA Members
Dr Alexander Macquisten
PhD student
Scalable Computing
Alexander was a PhD student at Newcastle University 2017-2022, researching hierarchical visualization of high dimensional ‘omics data.
Dr Kenan Koc
PhD student
Scalable Computing
Kenan was a PhD student at Newcastle University 2018-2022, researching Information visualization approaches to form balanced groups.