Teaching: Bob was awarded a Senior Teaching Fellowship from the Higher Education Academy (SFHEA) in 2019 for his outstanding contributions and innovative teaching. Bob teaches (or was involved in teaching) the following classes/modules:

1. Year 0: Key Skill for Scientists -Tutorial Group Supervisor
   Teaching Blocks (TB) TB 1-2 2013-2014
2. Year 1: Computers And Society -Tutorial Group Supervision and Moderator
   Engineering)
   TB 1-2 2006-2007, 2007-2008, 2008-2009
3. Year 1: LaTeX and Linux-Lecturer (open to all University students)
   2007-2008
4. Year 1: Computers Unplugged-Lecturer (open to all University students)
   2007-2008
5. Year 2: COMP2013 Developing Maintainable Software -Lecturer
   Autumn 2020-present
6. Year 2: Data Communications and Computer Networks-Lecturer
   2008-2009
7. Year 2: Software Engineering I -Lecturer and Tutorial Group Supervision
   2009-2010, 2010-2011, 2011-2012, 2012-2013
8. Year 2: Software Engineering II -Lecturer and Tutorial Group Supervision
   2009--2019
9. Year 2: Software Engineering Tutorial
   -Tutorial Group Coordinator
   2010-2011, 2011-2012
10. Year 3: Data Visualization-Lecturer
    2009--2019
11. Year 3: Project Implementation and Dissertation-Student Project Supervision
    2006--present
12. Year 3: Project Specification and Development -Student Project Supervision
    2006--present
13. Undergraduate Computer Science Colloquium at Gregynog -Coordinator
    2009-2010, 2010-2011, 2012-2013 2013-2014
14. Project Demonstration Fair -Organizer
    2012--2019
15. Masters: Programming: Principles and Practice-Guest Lecturer
    2008-2009
16. Masters: MEng Group Project -Coordinator
    2014-2015
17. Masters: Data Visualization -Lecturer
    2006--2019
18. Masters: Computer Science Project Development -Project Supervision
    2012--present
19. Masters: MEng Industrial Project -Coordinator
    2014-2015
20. Masters: Programming and Graphics APIs-Project Supervision
    2007-2008
21. Masters: MSc Software Project -Project Supervision and Internal Examiner
    2008-2009, 2009-2010
22. Masters: MSc Software Technology Project Development -Project Supervision
    2012--present
23. Masters: Interaction Technologies: Seminars and Readings-Guest Lecturer
    2006-2007
24. Masters: MRes in Visual Computing-Project Supervision
    2007-2008, 2010-2011, 2011-2012
25. Masters: Software Engineering Principles-Lecturer
    2011-2017,
26. Masters: Research Methods-Lecturer
    2023-present,
27. Masters: State of the Art Computer Graphics and Visualization-Coursework Assessment
    2008-2009, 2009-2010
28. College of Science Doctoral Training Seminar -Lecturer
    2016--2019

International and Invited Teaching

1. Robert S. Laramee, Introduction to Interactive Visualization and Data Storytelling,
   Invited Tutorial, at the HCI International Conference (HCII), https://2023.hci.international/ , 23-28 July 2023, Copenhagen, Denmark
2. Robert S. Laramee and Elif E Firat, Visualization Resources and High-Dimensional Visualization,
   Invited Postgraduate Research (PGR) Course, for the R-R Mechanical UTP Doctoral Training Framework, School of Engineering, University of Nottingham, 30 March 2022 ( video presentation part 1 )
3. Robert S. Laramee, Data Visualization: A Starting Point,
   Invited Postgraduate Research (PGR) Course, Swansea University, Swansea, UK, 2 March 2016, 9 December 2016, 15 November 2017, 31 Jan 2018
4. Robert S. Laramee, An Introduction to Scientific Visualisation,
   Invited Lecture at the Hartree Centre Summer School, Warrington, UK, 15-19 June 2015
5. Robert S. Laramee, Data Visualization: A Starting Point,
   Invited Postgraduate Research (PGR) Course, Swansea University, Swansea, UK, 25 March 2015
6. Robert S. Laramee, Data Visualization: A Starting Point,
   Invited Workshop at The International Congress on Data Visualization (Congreso Internacional de Visualización de Datos), 5 November 2014 in Bogota, Columbia
   ( link to event page )
7. Robert S. Laramee, Data Visualization: A Starting Point,
   Invited Studio Course at ACM SIGGRAPH 2014, The 41st International Conference and Exhibition on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques, Vancouver, Canada, 10-14 August 2014
8. Robert S. Laramee, An Introduction to Scientific Visualisation,
   Invited Lecture at the Hartree Centre Summer School, Warrington, UK, 13-18 July 2014
9. Robert S. Laramee 706.020 AK Mensch-Maschine Kommunikation: Scientific Visualisation,
   Guest Professor at Graz University of Technology, Austria, Summer 2012
10. Robert S. Laramee, The PhD in Visualization Starter Kit (PVSK),
    Refereed Tutorial Talk, Tuesday 26 October 2010, at IEEE VisWeek 2010, Salt Lake City, Utah
    ( web page )
11. Robert S. Laramee, The PhD in Visualization Starter Kit (PVSK),
    Refereed Tutorial Talk, 26 July 2010, at the 14th International Conference on Information Visualisation (IV10), London South Bank University, London, UK
    ( web page )
12. Robert S Laramee, An Introduction to Medical Visualization,
    Invited Guest Lecturer for SHIM_16: Health Technologies and Telecare-Guest Lecturer, Swansea University, Swansea, UK, Spring 2009
13. Gordon Erlebacher, Christoph Garth, Robert S. Laramee (Organizer), Holger Theisel, Tino Weinkauf, Xavier Tricoche, and Daniel Weiskopf, Texture and Topology-Based Flow Visualization: Methodology and Applications,
    IEEE Visualization (IEEE Vis 2006) Refereed Tutorial , 29 October - 3 November 2006, Baltimore, Maryland
14. Gordon Erlebacher, Robert S. Laramee, and Daniel Weiskopf, Interactive, Texture-Based Flow Visualization,
    IEEE Visualization (IEEE Vis 2004) Refereed Tutorial , 15-19 October 2004, Austin, Texas

Student Supervision-Successfully Completed MSc. Projects

1. Dharanija Bantu (Dharny), Temporal Insights: Exploring Type 1 Diabetes Management Through Interactive Time Series Visualization , MSc Computer Science, 2023
2. Snehal Khapekar, An Effective Strategy for Churn Prediction and Customer Profiling in a Telecommunications Company , MSc Computer Science, 2023
3. Abigail Kinnaird, An Interactive Visualisation of Credit Card Fraud Detection , MSc Data Science, 2023, Distinction ( PDF )
4. Archana Kollanur, Predictive Analysis and Visualization of Financial Transactions, MSc Computer Science, 2023
5. Wentao Mao, iBankEx: An Interactive Visualisation Tool for the Exploration of Bank Transaction Data , MSc Computer Science, 2023, Distinction ( PDF )
6. Mingrui Li, StockVis: Visualisation of Investment Transactions , MSc Computer Science, 2023, Distinction ( PDF )
7. Xiao Liu, Interactive Visualization and Price Prediction for AirBnB , MSc Data Science, 2023, Distinction
8. Yingming Liang, Explainable and Trustworthy AI for Diabetes, MSc Computer Science, 2023
9. Akanksha Mishra, Health Visualization, MSc Data Science, 2023

10. DharmaTeja Vytia (Teja), Data-Driven Financial Behavior Assessment Using Bank Transactions, Extended MSc, 2022-2033
11. Junyu Chen, FinVis: Visualizing the US Finance Markets, MSc, 2022
12. Kanyu Chen, Visualization of News Articles, MSc, 2022
13. Yufan Chen, Visualization of Journalism: An Interactive, Hierarchical Word Cloud for News, MSc, 2022
14. Zhuoqun Jiang (Luna), FinVis: Visualization of Bank Transaction Data (with Oakbrook Ltd.), MSc, 2022
15. Qian Tang, Population Health Vis: An Interactive Data Visualization for NHS Mental Health Data, MSc, 2022
16. Shafeali Rangari, Smart City Visualization: Geospatial Visualization of Solar Potential in Bristol, MSc Data Science, 2022
17. Yuhao Tang, Visual Comparison of Chinese Stocks, MSc, 2022
18. Navya Vasudeva, BankVis: Visualization of Bank Transaction Data (with Oakbrook Ltd.), MSc Data Science, 2022
19. Ziyi Zhao (Zoe), Text Visualization of News Articles, MSc Data Science, 2022, Distinction

    

20. Sachin Suri, FinVis: Visualization of Financial Data of Publicly Traded Companies, Extended MSc, 2021-2022
21. Dominic Hoggart, CrypoHub: Financial Visualisation of Cryptocurrency Market Data, Integrated MSc, 2021-2022
22. Qinzhi Zhao, Traffic Vis: Interactive Visualization of Open Traffic Data from Bristol, MSc, 2021
23. Daniel Audcent, Geospatial Visualization of Health Data, MSc, 2021 (Supervised together with Qiru Wang)
24. Alexander O'Brien, Finance Vis: Visualising the Complex Web of Financial Markets, MSc, 2021
25. Luciano James, FootballVis: A Data Visualization Tool for Analyzing Event Data in Association Football, MSc, 2020
26. James Williams, FinVis: Visualizing the Complex Nature of Financial Markets, MSc, 2020 Distinction ( PDF )
27. Cheng Qian, Visualizing the Lipid Journey Through the Protein Membrane Landscape, MSc, 2018-2019
28. Greg Stait Carrington, Visualization of Health Economics Outcomes Research (HEOR) Data, MSc, 2018-2019
29. Benjamin Rees, Digital Dungeons and Dragons, MSc, 2018-2019
30. Carrianne Santos, Visualization of Molecular Dyanamics Simulation Data, MSc, 2018-2019
31. Joseph Seddon, Visualization of Questionnaire Data, MSc, 2018-2019, Distinction.
32. Liwen Pan, Interactive Visualization of Project Tycho Data, Advanced MSc, 2017-2018
33. Carlo Sarli, Med Practice Assistant, MEng Project, 2017-2018, Distinction.
34. Elif Firat, Visualization of Project Tycho Data 2017, Advanced MSc. Distinction. Elif graduated with her PhD in data visualization in 2022.
35. Xiaoxiao Liu, Interactive Visualization of Shakespeare's Othello 2017, MSc. Distinction. Xiaoxiao published a revised version of her masters thesis as a book. ( PDF )
36. Qiru Wang, Smart City Visualization 2017, Advanced MSc. Distinction ( PDF, video ), Wang is now a PhD candidate in EHR visualization.
37. Dimitrios Pozaritis, Visualization of Animal Sensor Data 2016-2017, Advanced MSc.
38. Donal Evans, Visualization of Molecular Dynamics Simulation Data 2016, MSc, Distinction
39. Dylan Rees, Automatic Stream Ribbon Seeding, 2016, MSc, Distinction, Winner of the Best Dissertation Award -MSc in Computer Science, in the College of Science, Department of Computer Science, 2017 ( PDF, award ), Dylan graduated with his PhD in visualization in 2020.
40. Majedah Alrehiely, Visualization of Shakespeare's Othello, 2013-2014, Advanced MSc, Winner of the Best Performance by a Student Award-MSc Advanced Computer Science in the College of Science, 2015. Majedah also published a follow-up book based on her thesis. ( PDF, video )
41. Alex Doney, Mobile Green Energy Evaluator, 2013-2014, MSc
42. Ryan Wong, Mobile Visual Boundaries, 2013-2014, MEng, Distinction, Winner of the Best Student Project Prize as voted for by Industry.
43. Haya Dossary, Visualization of Enterprise Education Student Questionnaire Data, 2012-2013, MSc, Distinction. Haya went on to earn a PhD.
44. Hassan Alshehri, Visualization of Enterprise Education Student Questionnaire Data, 2012-2013, MSc, Distinction
45. Keiren Oakley, Diary Droid Application, 2011-2012, MEng, Distinction
46. Peter Twibill, Visualization of Smart Grid Energy Data, 2011-2012, MEng in conjunction with Grid-Tools.com, Distinction
47. Mohammed Alharbi, Visualization of Questionnaire Data, 2011, MSc. Distinction ( video ), Mohammed graduated with his PhD in visualization in 2021.
48. Abdulrahman Qahtani, Advanced Visualization of Electroencephalography (EEG) Data, MSc. Dissertation, October, 2010
49. Deyu Gai, Visualization of Animal Tracking Data, MSc. Dissertation, December 2009
50. Matthew Edmunds, Flow Visualization with Stream Surfaces, MSc. Dissertation, October 2009, Distinction
    Matthew went on to earn a PhD in flow visualization in 2014.

Student Supervision-Successfully Completed BSc. Projects

1. Kiayi Chen, Financial Visualization, Third Year BSc. Project, 2023-2024
2. Thomas McCracken, Finance Visualization, Third Year BSc. Project, 2023-2024
3. Aolin Wang, Football Event Visualization, Third Year BSc. Project, 2023-2024
4. Lim Yi Hong (Alvin), Smart City Visualization, Third Year BSc. Project, 2022-2023
5. Khoo Chen Nan (Harry), Financial Visualization, Third Year BSc. Project, 2022-2023
6. Hamza Rizwan, FinanceViz: Visualization of Complex Web of Finance, Third Year BSc. Project, 2022-2023
7. Chen Yang, Railway Passenger Flow: The Visualization of Passenger Flow in London , Third Year BSc. Project, 2022-2023
8. Christian Stubbs, FinTech Vis: Company Sentiment Visualiser, Third Year BSc. Project, 2021-2022
9. Fraser Barrass, Discord Bot, Third Year BSc. Project, 2019-2020 (with Alma Rahat)
10. Mohammed Bello-Tukur, An Android Video Game Manager, Third Year BSc. Project, 2019-2020 (with Alma Rahat)
11. Marinos Nicolaou, Visualization of Financial Data Third Year BSc. Project, 2019-2020 (with Alma Rahat)
12. Marcos Pallikaras, Version Variation Visualization, Third Year BSc. Project, 2019-2020 (with Matt Roach)
13. Jacob Roberts, Smart City Visualization, Third Year BSc. Project, 2019-2020 (with Matt Roach)
14. Caellan G Sailes, Molecular Dynamics Visualization, Third Year BSc. Project, 2019-2020 (with Ben Mora)
15. Wei Chong Siah, Financial Tech Visualization, Third Year BSc. Project, 2019-2020 (with Alma Rahat)
16. Artjoms Tomasevics, Financial Tech Visualization for Android Devices, Third Year BSc. Project, 2019-2020 (with Alma Rahat)
17. Sze Chai Wong (Matthew) Wong, Footbal Visualization, Third Year BSc. Project, 2019-2020 (with Deepak Sahoo)
18. Rees Reynolds, Smart City Visualization, Third Year BSc. Project, 2018-2019
19. Thomas Taylor, Premier League Forecasting: Visualization of Sports Predictions, Third Year BSc. Project, 2018-2019
20. Richard Marton, Medical Data, Its Processing, and the Impact of Technology, Third Year BSc. Project, 2018-2019
21. Rhodri Fabbro, Metaphors for Molecules: Alternative Graphical Representations for Molecular Dynamics Simulation Data, Third Year BSc. Project, 2017-2018, Distinction
22. Joseph Oladitan, Visualization of Healthcare Data, Third Year BSc. Project, 2016-2017
23. Tereza Stoyanova, Visualization of Test Data, Third Year BSc. Project, 2016-2017
24. Carlo Ernesto Sarli, Building a Software Synthesizer, Third Year BSc. Project, 2016-2017
25. Tom Shackleton, Visualization of Health Care Data, Third Year BSc. Project, 2016-2017
26. Tsz Hin Tung, Visualization of Health Care Data, Third Year BSc. Project, 2015-2016
27. William Clark, An Android Security Lab, Third Year BSc. Project, 2015-2016, Distinction
28. Robert Fitzpatrick, Democratising Technologies Open Brief, Third Year BSc. Project, 2015-2016
29. Alfie Moroney, Android Meets Arduino, Third Year BSc. Project, 2015-2016
30. Christopher Jenkins, Pong Revisited: A Ray-Traced Implementation, Third Year BSc. Project, 2014-2015
31. Gavin Tsang, Ray Tracing: An Explanation and Implementation of the Ray Tracing Algorithm, Third Year BSc. Project, 2014-2015, Distinction
32. Michael Preece, Collision Detection: Physics in Game Engines, Third Year BSc. Project, 2014-2015
33. James Ellis, Visual History Gamification, Third Year BSc. Project, 2013-2014, Distinction
34. John Rowley, Interactive Visualization of Tidal Flow, Third Year BSc. Project, 2013-2014
35. Rodrigo Rogers, Visualization of Animal Sensor Data, Third Year BSc. Project, 2013-2014
36. Alex Chase, Visualization of Football Data, Third Year BSc. Project, 2012-2013
37. Simon Maling, Education Through Sonification, Third Year BSc. Project, 2012-2013, in conjunction with LearnThruMusic (www.learnthrumusic.co.uk/), Distinction and Winner of the Best Student Project award as voted for by school students
38. Devin Taylor, An Interactive Web Site for Non-Profit Social Enterprise, Third Year BSc. Project, 2012-2013, in conjunction with Cyfle i Dyfu / Chance to Grow
39. Michael Nicholas, Visualizing Work-Based Learning (WBL) Data in Wales, Third Year BSc. Project, 2011-2012, Distinction
40. Zoltan Hajnal, Smartphone Meets Smartcalendar, Third Year BSc. Project, 2011-2012
41. Ferdinand Vesely, Visual Analysis of Higher Education in Wales, Third Year BSc. Project, 2010-2011, in conjunction with the Planning and Strategic Projects Unit (PSPU) at Swansea University Ferdinand went on to write a PhD at Swansea University. ( PDF )
42. James Walker, Visualization of Animal Tracking Data, Third Year BSc. Project, 2010-2011, Distinction
    James presented his project at the British Conference of Undergraduate Research (BCUR), University of Central Lancashire, 19-20 April 2011, completed his MRes Degree in data visualization in 2012, and graduated with his PhD in visualization. ( PDF )
43. Kingsley Hau, Visualization of Brain Activity Data, Third Year BSc. Project, 2010-2011, Distinction
44. Ho Yuen Wan, Visualising Boundary Surfaces from Computational Fluid Dynamics Data, Third Year BSc. Project, 2009-2010, Distinction
45. Marc Harry, Comparing and Evaluating Computer Graphics and Visualization Software, Third Year BSc. Project, 2008-2009
46. Matt Reid, Cartograms and the Worldmapper Project, Third Year BSc. Project, 2008-2009
47. Essam Farrag, Comparing and Evaluating Computer Graphics and Visualization Software, Third Year BSc. Project, 2007-2008
48. Nicholas Hammett, Visualization of Brain Activity Data, Third Year BSc. Project, 2007-2008
49. Daniel O'Sullivan, Network Security: Patrolling the Network, Third Year BSc. Project, 2007-2008

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