Alzahrani, H., Fernstad, S. (2026). BlurFisheye: A Technique for Enhanced Biological Network Visualization. In: Emerging Trends in Computational Biology, Biomedical Engineering, and Health Informatics. CSCE 2025. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 2935. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-22199-5_6
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Viva Success: Hugh Garner
Congratulations to Hugh Garner on successfully defending his PhD thesis “Interactive explorative visual analytics for hierarchical meta-‘omics data”! Examiners were Dr James Procter (Dundee University) and Prof Daniel Archambault (Newcastle University). Hugh was supervised by Dr Sara Johansson Fernstad, with co-supervision from Dr Carmen Montero-Calasanz, Prof Nick Holliman, Prof Anil Wipat and Dr Alma Cantu.
Entropy ordered shapes as bivariate glyphs
Holliman, N. S., Çöltekin, A., Fernstad, S. J., McLaughlin, L., Simpson, M. D., & Woods, A. J. (2024). Entropy ordered shapes as bivariate glyphs. Electronic Imaging, 36, 1-10. https://doi.org/10.2352/EI.2024.36.11.HVEI-206
Multi-level visualization for exploration of structures in missing data
Alsufyani, S., Forshaw, M., Del Din, S., Yarnall, A., Rochester, L., & Fernstad, S. J. (2024). Multi-level visualization for exploration of structures in missing data. CGVC. The Eurographics Association.
Viva success: Hanin Alzahrani!
Congratulations to Hanin Alzahrani on successfully defending her PhD “Improving the usability of complex biological networks through interestingness measures and interactive visualization”! Hanin was supervised by Sara Johansson Fernstad and Anil Wipat. Examiners were Alfie Abdul Rahman (King’s College London) and Harold Fellermann (Newcastle University).
Welcome Xinhuan!
We are very happy to welcome Xinhuan Shu to the NoVA team. Xinhuan has joined the School of Computing at Newcastle University as a lecturer. She most recently held a PostDoc position at the VisHub lab at University of Edinburgh.
Viva success: Osman Akbulut!
Congratulations to Osman Akbulut who successfully defended his PhD thesis “Novel methods for visualising graphs”! Osman was supervised by Nick Holliman (now King’s College London), Matthew Forshaw and Ton Xin. The viva was examined by Benjamin Bach (University of Edinburgh) and Sara Johansson Fernstad.