People

Dr Sara Johansson Fernstad

Senior Lecturer, Director of Postgraduate Research
Scalable Computing, School of 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.

Dr Alma Cantu

Lecturer, MSc Data Science Degree Programme Director
Scalable Computing, School of 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.

Professor Daniel Archambault

Professor, Scalable Group Co-Lead
Scalable Computing, School of 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.

Dr Xinhuan Shu

Lecturer, MSc Data Science Degree Programme Director Deputy
Scalable Computing, School of Computing
xinhuan.shu@newcastle.ac.uk

Xinhuan is a Lecturer in Computer Science.

Dr Alexander Macquisten

Research Associate
Scalable Computing, School of 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.

Hugh Garner

PhD student (April 2019 – now)
Scalable Computing, School of Computing
h.garner2@newcastle.ac.uk

Sarah Alsufyani

PhD student (Sept. 2020 – now)
Scalable Computing, School of 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.

Aljawharah Almajyul

PhD student (Sept. 2021 – now)
Scalable Computing, School of 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 (Nov. 2022 – now)
Scalable Computing, School of 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.

Fatimah Alqahtani

PhD student (Sept. 2023 – now)
Scalable Computing, School of Computing
f.m.m.alqahtani2@newcastle.ac.uk

Fatimah is a PhD student in the School of Computing at Newcastle University, where she explore the intersection of machine learning and data visualization.

Luke Watkin

PhD student (Sept. 2024 – now)
Scalable Computing, School of Computing
l.watkin1@newcastle.ac.uk

Luke is a PhD student interested in visualisation techniques for machine learning explainability.

George Bell

PhD student (Jan. 2025 – now)
Scalable Computing, School of Computing
g.bell1@newcastle.ac.uk

George is a PhD student in the School of Computing at Newcastle University, where he researches perception for immersive visualisation.

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.

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.

Dr Kenan Koc

PhD student (2018-2022)

Dr Alexander Macquisten

PhD student (2017-2022)

Dr Osman Akbulut

PhD student (2019-2024)

Dr Hanin Alzahrani

PhD student (2021-2024)

Lucy Mclaughlin

PhD student (2021-2023)