People

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.

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.

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.

Dr Xinhuan Shu

Lecturer
Scalable Computing
xinhuan.shu@newcastle.ac.uk

Xinhuan is a Lecturer in Computer Science.

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.

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.

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

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.

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 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.