People

Academic staff

Dr Sara Johansson Fernstad

  • Senior Lecturer, Director of Postgraduate Research
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  • 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
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  • 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

Dr Xinhuan Shu

Research Associates

Dr Alexander Macquisten

  • Research Associate in Data Science
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  • 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.

PhD students

Osman Akbulut

  • PhD student
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  • 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

Lama Alsmmahi

Sarah Alsufyani

Hanin Alzahrani

  • PhD student
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  • 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

Lucy Mclaughlin

Research Software Engineers

Dr Mike Simpson

Dr Gabrielle Shroeder

Past NoVA members

Dr Alexander Macquisten

  • PhD student
  • Alexander was a PhD student at Newcastle University 2017-2022, researching hierarchical visualization of high dimensional 'omics data.

Dr Kenan Koc

  • PhD student
  • Kenan was a PhD student at Newcastle University 2018-2022, researching Information visualization approaches to form balanced groups.