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Current Address: (since December 2020) 61 Teesdale Road Nottingham, NG5 1DA UK mobile: (+44) 0777 2922 564 |
Business Address: (since January 2020) Rm C76, School of Computer Science University of Nottingham, Jubilee Campus Wollaton Road Nottingham NG8 1BB UK (+44) 0115 74 87566 |
| Education and Qualifications |
SFHEA -Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy,
(Recognition Reference: PR166261) PhD in Computer Science, Vienna University of Technology, Vienna, Austria, MSc in Computer Science, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, BS in Physics with a minor in Computer Science, Cum Laude, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, Study of Physics and Computer Science, University of Hull, Kingston-Upon-Hull, England, (exchange student) | ||||||||||||||
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Experience 2020-present |
School of Computer Science, University of Nottingham,
Nottingham, NG8 1BB, UK,
https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/computerscience/
Professor of Visualization, 2023-present Associate Professor of Visualization, 2020-2023 Responsible for teaching and research in the areas of software engineering and research methods. Dr Laramee founded the Visualization and Graphics group in the School of Computer Science which carries out internationally recognized research in the areas of information visualization, scientific visualization, and visual analytics. He also contributes to administrative roles including that of Research Champion. | ||||||||||||||
| 2006-2021 |
Computer Science, Swansea University, Swansea, SA2
8PP, Wales, UK,
http://www.swansea.ac.uk/compsci/
Honorary Associate Professor, 2020-2021 Associate Professor in Visualization, 2013-2020 Senior Lecturer in Visualization, 2010-2013 Lecturer in Visualization, 2006-2010 Responsible for teaching and research in the areas of data visualization and software engineering with emphasis on information and scientific visualization. Dr Laramee led or contributed to 23 undergraduate and postgraduate modules at Swansea University. He led a visualization research group that published regularly in internationally refereed, scientific conference and journals. He built a portfolio of research activities including serving on IPCs, editing conference proceedings, guest editorships, conference chairing, invited talks, and peer-reviewing. He also carried out a range of administrative roles including serving as the Director of the College of Science (CoS) Postgraduate Research (PGR) Student Doctoral Training Center (DTC). | ||||||||||||||
| 2001-2006 |
VRVis Research Center, Donau-City-Strasse 1, 1220 Vienna,
Austria,
http://www.VRVis.at/
Senior Researcher and Software Engineer VRVis is a research center that attempts to form a transfer-of-knowledge bridge between universities and the private industry sector in Austria. In this specific case, the private sector is AVL (www.avl.com) and the university is Vienna University of Technology. As a senior researcher, I carry out research and development in the area of scientific visualization. The focus of the research is in the area flow visualization and the software, written in C++, is developed jointly with AVL. All development is carried out directly within the software environment of AVL in order to take advantage of the commercial benefits that result from the research. Thus the novel algorithms I have written can immediately be sold to AVL's customers. AVL's software is designed to visualize the results of computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulations. Please see the accompanying list of research publications for results from this collaboration. | ||||||||||||||
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1998-2001 |
Department of Computer Science, University of New
Hampshire, Durham, NH 03824, U.S.,
http://www.cs.unh.edu/
Research Assistant Performed research and software development in the fields of computer graphics, scientific visualization, and human-computer interaction (HCI). The focus of the scientific visualization was in the area of multiresolution (MR) and adaptive resolution (AR) visualization. I implemented an isosurface renderer that supports visualization of both MR and AR data. The software implementation of the isosurface renderer was written in Java 1.2/2.0 and used the VisAD, Java3D, and Mesa/OpenGL graphics libraries. The focus of the HCI research was on the visual problems associated with the use of monocular head mounted displays. We carried out a series of user studies that emphasize perceptual problems related to the use of this type of display. Please see publications list for results of this research. | ||||||||||||||
| 1997-2000 |
Department of Computer Science, University of New
Hampshire, Durham, NH 03824, U.S.,
http://www.cs.unh.edu/
Computer Applications Instructor/Lecturer Responsible for preparing and teaching a survey computer science course at UNH that provides a balanced theoretical and hands-on overview covering the topics of operating systems, computer architecture, networking, computer graphics and databases. The course also introduced the features of the UNIX, Macintosh, and other operating systems as well as popular business office software including word processing, spreadsheet, and simple database applications. I also prepared and carried out accompanying computer lab sessions to complement the in-class work. Approximately 475 students attended the lecture over the course of four years. | ||||||||||||||
| Professional Leadership Roles |
[173]
Chair of
Computer Graphics and Visual Computing (CGVC) Conference
Swansea, Wales, 13-14 September 2018
[172]
Co-Chair of
EuroVis State-of-the-Art Reports (STAR) 2018 in
Brno, Czech Republic, 4-8 June 2018
[171]
Chair of
The British Chapter of Eurographics (EGUK)
2017-present
[170]
Editorial Board Member of Computer Graphics
Forum (CGF),
2017-2020
[169]
Director of the College of Science (CoS)
Doctoral Training Centre (DTC),
Swansea University,
2016-2019
[168]
College of Science Postgraduate Research Director of
Studies (PGR DoR),
Swansea University,
2016-2019
[167]
Co-Director
of Swansea University's Centre
on Digital Adventures and Humanities (CODAH),
2014-2019
[166]
Editorial Board Member
of the journal Computers, ISSN 2073-431X,
2016-2017
[165]
Regional Manager
of
New Computing Technologies (NCT) Wales,
2013-2015
[164]
Conference Co-Chair of
the EuroVis Conference on Visualization (EuroVis 2014) in
Swansea, Wales, UK 2014
[163]
Workshops Co-Chair of
the EuroVis Conference on Visualization (EuroVis 2014) in
Swansea, Wales, UK 2014
[162]
Program Co-Chair of
IVAPP 2012, 2013, and 2014
-The International Conference on Information
Visualization Theory and Applications
[159]
Workshop Co-Chair for the EuroVis Workshop on Reproducibility,
Verification, and Validation in Visualization (EuroVVV)
in Leipzig, Germany, 17-21 June 2013
(in conjunction with EuroVis 2013)
[158]
Co-Chair of
EUROGRAPHICS Posters 2011 in
Llandudno, Wales, 11-15 April 2011 [157]
Program Chair of The Research Institute of
Visual Computing (RIVIC) Graduate School,
6-9 April 2010,
Swansea, UK
[156]
Workshop Co-Chair for the Knowledge-Assisted
Visualization (KAV) Workshop in Columbus, Ohio,
19 October 2008
(in conjuction with IEEE Visualization 2008)
[155]
Organizing Chair for the Knowledge-Assisted
Visualization (KAV) Workshop 2007 in
Sacramento, California,
29 October 2007
(in conjuction with IEEE Visualization 2007)
[154]
Organizing Chair of the first Topology-Based Methods in
Visualization (Topo-In-Vis) Workshop in
Budmerice, Slovakia, 29-30 September 2005,
Reviewing: Laramee has performed more than 300 reviews for journals, conferences, workshops, funding agencies and similar venues. He reviews for the following: Journals
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| Awards |
RAMP VIS: Making Visual Analytics an Integral Part of the Technological Infrastructure for Combating COVID-19 by Min Chen (Principal Investigator), with Co-Investigators Rita Borgo, Radu Jianu, Benjamin Bach, Euan Freeman, Hui Fang, Franck Patrick Vidal, Jonathan C. Roberts, Thomas Torsney-Weir, Alfie Abdul-Rahman, Richard Reeve, Louise Matthews, Jason Antony Dykes, Aidan David Slingsby, Daniel William Archambault, Panagiotis Ritsos, Robert S. Laramee, Joseph David Wood, Cagatay Turkay, Kai Xu Research Grant funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Resource Council (EPSRC EP/V054236/1), UK, 2021, £430,497.00 Bringing Healthcare Data to Life by Robert S. Laramee (Principal Investigator), Damon Berridge (Co-Investigator), Research Grant funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Resource Council (EPSRC EP/S010238/1, EP/S010238/2), UK, 2019-2023, £441,485.97 (+£227,105.00 of match funding) Facilitating Multi-Translation Corpus Analysis , Tom Cheesman (Principal Investigator), Robert S Laramee (Co-Investigator), British Academy, BA/Leverhulme Research Grants--SRG 2016 Round, 2016-2017 (Ref SG160436) £9,983.64 Visual Analytics of Call-Centre Customer Experience and Satisfaction, Robert S. Laramee (Principal Investigator), Rita Borgo (Co-Investigator), Gary Smith (Industry Co-Investigator), Rebecca Balmer (Industry Co-Investigator), Phil Smith (Industry Co-Investigator), Knowledge Economy Skills Scholarship (KESS) (PhD studentship in cooperation with QPC Ltd., www.qpc.com), 2016-2019, £55,026.00 Real-Time, Human-Centred Visualization of Big Data, Robert S. Laramee (Principal Investigator), Markus Roggenbach (Co-Investigator), Harri Mansikkamaki, (Industry Co-Investigator), Knowledge Economy Skills Scholarship (KESS) (PhD studentship in cooperation with Leadin UK Ltd., www.leadin.co.uk), 2016-2018, £55,026.00 Visualizing Customer Journeys Through the Call Centre Landscape, Robert S. Laramee (Principal Investigator), Rita Borgo (Co-Investigator), Gary Smith (Industry Co-Investigator), Rebecca Balmer (Industry Co-Investigator), Phil Smith (Industry Co-Investigator), Knowledge Economy Skills Scholarship (KESS) (PhD studentship in cooperation with QPC Ltd., www.qpc.com), 2015-2018, £55,026.00 Visual Analytics of Requirement Uncertainty, Robert S. Laramee (Principal Investigator), Markus Roggenbach (Co-Investigator), Llyr Wyn Jones (Industry Co-Investigator), Huw Price (Industry Co-Investigator), Knowledge Economy Skills Scholarship (KESS) (in cooperation with Grid-Tools Ltd., www.grid-tools.com), 2015-2018, £55,026.00 Visualizing Customer Journeys Through the Call Centre Landscape Robert S Laramee (Principal Academic Investigator), Rebecca Palmer (Principle Industry Investigator), Phil Smith–CEO, QPC Ltd., awarded by the Technology Strategy Board (TSB), UK (Ref 41323-293384), 2014-2016, £494,576.00 Reverse Strategic Insight Programme Placement, Robert S. Laramee (Principal-Investigator), Jeff Francis (Co-Investigator), in conjunction with Beta Omega Ltd., funded by the Strategic Insight Programme (Ref 326/11G003/SWU R5 3015), 2013, £2,000.00 Data Visualization for the Future, Robert S. Laramee (Principal Investigator), Markus Roggenbach (Co-Investigator), Alan Watkins (Co-Investigator), James Davies (Co-Investigator), Knowledge Economy Skills Scholarship (KESS) Mini Grant (in cooperation with We Predict Ltd., www.wepredict.co.uk), 2012-2013, £31,124.06 Advanced Visualization of Animal Tracking Data, Robert S. Laramee (Principal Investigator), Markus Roggenbach (Co-Investigator), Huw Price (Co-Investigator), Knowledge Economy Skills Scholarship (KESS) Mini Grant (in cooperation with Grid-Tools Ltd., www.grid-tools.com ), 2011-2012, £31,124.06 Translation Arrays: Version Variation Visualization, Tom Cheesman (Principal Investigator), Jonathan Hope (Co-Investigator), Robert S. Laramee (Co-Investigator), Research Grant funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC AH/J012483/1) 2012, £30,000.00. This project is also featured on Swansea University's web page of research projects highlights. Click here to view the story.
Advanced Visual Interfaces for Information Seeking and Retrieval, Robert S. Laramee (Principal Investigator), Max L. Wilson (Co-Investigator), Professor David Crawford (Co-Investigator), Knowledge Economy Skills Scholarship (KESS) Grant (in cooperation with Telecom Technologies Ltd.), 2010-2013, £96,914.37 Interactive, High-Dimensional Flow Visualization Using Image Space-Based Approaches by Robert S. Laramee (Principal Investigator), Research Grant funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Resource Council (EPSRC EP/F002335/1), UK, 2007-2010, £232,272.00 | ||||||||||||||
| Honors and Best Paper Awards |
Jian Chen, Meng Ling, Rui Li, Petra Isenberg, Tobias Isenberg,
Michael Sedlmair, Torsten Möller, Robert S. Laramee, Han-Wei Shen,
Katharina Wünsche, and Qiru Wang,
Received the
Graphics Replicability Stamp
for their paper,
VIS30K: A Collection of Figures and Tables from
IEEE Visualization Conference Publications,
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics
(IEEE TVCG),
Volume 27, Number 9, September 2021, pages 3826 - 3833
(
PDF file,
https://visimagenavigator.github.io/,
open access data set,
https://doi.org/10.1109/TVCG.2021.3054916
,
)
Richard Roberts, Dylan Rees, Robert S. Laramee, Paul Brookes, and Gary Smith received the Best Paper Award at the Eurographics Computer Graphics and Visual Computing (CGVC) 2018 Conference, 13-14 September 2018, for their paper RiverState: A Visual Metaphor Representing Millions of Time-Oriented State Transitions, http://dx.doi.org/10.2312/cgvc.20181210 Chao Tong and Robert S. Laramee received Honorable Mention at the Eurographics Computer Graphics and Visual Computing (CGVC) 2018 Conference, 13-14 September 2018, for their paper Cartograms with Topological Features, http://dx.doi.org/10.2312/cgvc.20181217 The panel, Diversity in Visualization featuring Rita Borgo, Vetria Byrd, Aviva Frank, Kelly Gaither, Robert S Laramee (Organizer), Ronald Metoya, and Erica Yang at the IEEE VIS 2017 Conference in Phoenix, Arizona, 1-6 October 2017 was the recipient of the Best Panel Award ( panel statement, video recording, Best Panel Award ) In May of 2017, CHERISH-DE published an interview with Bob conducted by Jay Doyle in The InterView: the new monthly Researcher Spotlight. Here is a link to the interview. In July 2017, Using Data Visualisation to beat the Call Centre Curse by Richard Roberts and Robert S Laramee was published in The Conversation. Here is a link to the article. It is re-published by: World News.com , Yahoo! , News Flash , and Swansea University . On 18 January 2016, The Daily Sun Newspaper published the article, Power of Learning Can Transcend Long Distances by Ethan Palmer about Bob's innovative teaching methods. Here is a link to the article. Richard Roberts, Mark W. Jones, and Robert S. Laramee, received the Best Paper Award at the Eurographics Computer Graphics and Visual Computing (CGVC) 2015 Conference, 16-17 September 2015 in London, for their paper Multi-Dimensional Hybrid Visualisation of Ornithological Sensor Data, http://dx.doi.org/10.2312/cgvc.20151233 Since 2014, Bob has been invited to join the IEEE VGTC Visualization Pioneers Group. Membership is by invitation only and is given to internationally recognized leaders in the field. On Wednesday, 15 August 2012, Bob gave an interview to Emily Turner of BBC 1 on the topic of visualizing translations of Shakepeare's Othello in preparation for the BBC 1 Show on Science Development. Shortly thereafter, the story "World writings compared by Swansea University web tool" was published on the BBC News web site (13 Sept 2012). This collaborative work between Tom Cheesman of Modern Languages and Computer Science is featured in a short video on the Swansea University's YouTube series. Here is the YouTube video. The collaborative, inter-disciplinary visualization project between Tom Cheesman of Modern Languages, Swansea University, Kevin Flanagan, based in Bristol, Zhao Geng, Computer Science at Leeds University, Bob Laramee, Computer Science at Swansea University, and Stephan Thiel, based in Berlin, on visualizing translations of Shakespeare's Othello received very widespread publicity in the popular media. On 10 May 2012, Rob Turner of Wales Online published the article, “Welsh scientists use Shakespeare to unlock the true art of translation”. On Saturday, 19 May 2012, Robin Turner also of the Western Mail published the article entitled, "How Shakespeare is helping to show how world cultures differ", a printed variant of the previous article. On 19 September 2012, Monica Berty of Fragmentary Texts: Collecting and representing quotations of lost authors and works published the article “Version Variation Visualization Project”. Advanced, Automatic Stream Surface Seeding and Filtering by Matthew Edumunds, Robert S. Laramee, Guoning Chen, Eugene Zhang, and Nelson Max is featured on the cover of the Theory and Practice of Computer Graphics (TPCG) 2012 conference proceedings, pages 53-62 (13-14 September 2012, Didcot, Oxfordshire, UK). Click here to view the cover. This paper also received honourable mention for Best Student Paper at the conference. "Thank you for sending this paper. It was a pleasure to read and an interesting topic chosen," remarked Reviewer 1. Angular Histograms: Frequency-Based Visualizations for Large, High Dimensional Data by Zhao Geng, Zhenmin Peng, Robert S. Laramee, Rick Walker, and Jonathan Roberts is featured on the front cover of the journal IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (IEEE TVCG), Vol. 17, No. 12, December 2011. Click here to view the printed cover of Vol. 17, No. 12. Edward Grundy, Mark W. Jones, Robert S. Laramee, Rory P. Wilson, and Emily L. C. Shepard received the Best Paper Award at the EuroVis 2009 Conference, June 10 - 12, 2009 in Berlin, Germany for the paper Visualisation of Sensor Data from Animal Movement, published in Computer Graphics Forum (CGF), Vol. 28, No. 3, 2009 pages 815-822. A total of 143 submissions were reviewed in a two-stage process that culminated with 41 papers accepted for an acceptance rate of 29%. How to Write A Visualization Paper: The Art and Mechanics by Robert S. Laramee was selected as the Best Education Paper at the EUROGRAPHICS 2009 conference in Munich, Germany, 2 April 2009. It was expanded based on audience feedback and discussion and is featured as a journal paper in Computer Graphics Forum (CGF), Vol. 29, No. 8, 2010, pages 2363-2371. Bob's visualization results, together with Jarke J. van Wijk, Bruno Jobard, and Helwig Hauser, are featured on the front cover of the journal IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (IEEE TVCG), Vol. 10, No. 6, November/December 2004 (pages 637-648) from the paper ISA and IBFVS: Image Space Based Visualization of Flow on Surfaces. Click here to view the printed cover of Vol. 10, No. 6. | ||||||||||||||
| Hobbies | Collecting interesting data sets, Single malt Scotch Whisky from the island of Islay, Deutsch als Fremdsprache-besonders muendlich, fitness and veganism | ||||||||||||||
| References | Available online | ||||||||||||||
