Diverse CDT Academic Supervisors

Our diverse team of academic supervisors reflects the versatility, breadth of applicability and challenges associated with knowing about visualization. The one thing they all have in common is a real passion for nurturing the creative spark in the students to help create future leaders in data vis.

We are adding members to our supervisor community all the time so if you may be interested in supervising one of our PhD students or an individual project at City St George’s or University of Warwick, please contact us at info@diverse.cdt.ac.uk.

You can find information about our Supervisor Co-design Workshops – here.

Professor Golnaz Badkobeh

Head of the Department of Computer Science, City St George's

Pattern Matching, Combinatorial algorithms, Combinatorics on words, Pattern avoidance, Absent words

Dr Matt Barnes

Senior Lecturer in Sociology

Poverty; Inequality; Longitudinal data; Survey analysis; Social policy

Dr Marjahan Begum

Lecturer in Computer Science

Psychology of learning in computational context; Women in technology; Barriers in education, AI and learning

Professor Mark Broom

Professor of Mathematics, City St George's

Evolutionary game theory; Evolution on graphs; Probability; Stochastic processes; Mathematical biology; Stats

Professor Madeline Cruice

Professor of Aphasia Rehabilitation and Recovery at City St George’s

Aphasia & Stroke Rehab; Inclusive Data Vis; Accessibility & User Co-Design; HCI; Digital Health Interventions

Dr Mai Elsehaly

Senior Lecturer in Data Visualization (E&R), City St George's

Vis for Civic Engagement; People-Centred Vis; Lived Experience Elicitation; AI-Assisted Visual Analytics

Professor Ilir Gashi

Professor in the Dept of Computer Science, City St George's

Security; Dependability; Fault-tolerance; Defence-in-depth; Layered defence; Defence-in-breadth

Dr Panos Giannopoulos

Lecturer in Computer Science, City St George's

Algorithms; Computational geometry; Graph drawing; Network visualization; Algorithmic modeling

Dr Karen Graham

Lecturer in Criminology, City St George's

Interviewing; Marginalised Voices; Prisons; Social Justice; Professional Practice; Race, Class & Gender

Dr Sara Heitlinger

Reader in Computer Science and Co-Director of the Centre for Human-Computer Interaction Design, City St George's

More-than-human; Cities; Participatory design; Sustainability; Multispecies

Dr Radu Jianu

Lecturer in Computer Science, City St George's

AI-assisted Visual Analytics; Visualization for Decarbonisation; User studies; Eye-tracking

Dr Sara Jones

Reader in Creative Interactive System Design, Bayes Business School

Creativity; Human-centred design, Socio-technical systems, Human-AI collab; Innovation; Interdisciplinarity

Dr Michał Król

Senior Lecturer in Cyber Security, City St George's

Decentralised systems; Complex networks; Online harm; Temporal graph visualization; Cyber security

Dr Narges Mahyar

Senior Lecturer in Computer Science, City St George's

Civic tech & decision-making; AI-enabled vis analytics; Inclusive design; Community & stakeholder engagement

Dr Stephann Makri

Senior Lecturer in Human-Computer Interaction, City St George's

Serendipity; Discovery; Information harms; Misinformation; Uncertainty

Dr Greg McInerny

Associate Professor at University of Warwick

Critical Vis; Prototypes; Design workflows; Interdisciplinarity; Reproducibility; Software

Dr Ali Sarvghad Batn Moghaddam

Lecturer in Computer Science, City St George's

Visual analytics; Inclusive data vis; AI-enabled Vis; Creation and manipulation; Trustworthy & graphical vis

Dr Robert Noble

Senior Lecturer in Applied Mathematics, City St George's

Mathematical biology; Cancer; Evolutionary biology; Simulations; Spatiotemporal data; Phylogenetic trees

Dr Martin Nyx Brain

Senior Lecturer in Computer Science, City St George's

Automated reasoning; Verification; Program analysis;; Security; Theoretical computer science; Algebra

Dr Alexis Pister

Lecturer in Computer Science, City St George's

Network visualization, Visualization atlases, Visual queries, Sound design visualization

Dr Mirela Reljan-Delaney

Lecturer in Computer Science at City St George's

Participatory data visualization; Feminist HCI; Visual literacy; Data physicalisation; Urban experience

Dr Christian Reynolds

Reader in Food Policy at the Centre for Food Policy and the Senior Tutor for Research at the Centre for Food Policy, City St George's

Food policy, security & history; Sustainability; Environmental impact of food; International relations & food

Professor Tony Russell-Rose

Programme Director for the MSc in User Experience Engineering at City St George’s

UX; Info retrieval; Search & discovery; Data vis; Natural language processing; Human-computer interaction

Dr Aidan Slingsby

Reader in Computer Science, City St George's

Visual Analytics; Co-design; Geovisualization; Spatio-temporal; Interactive visualization; Applied work.

Professor Charitini Stavropoulou

Professor of Health Innovation Research in SHMS and Co-Director of the Centre for Health and Care Innovation Research, City St George's

Health innovation; Spread and scale; Implementation research; Research funding

Professor Stephanie Wilson

Co-Director, Diverse CDT based at City St George's

Accessibility; Participatory design; Data physicalization; Human-centred vis design; HCI

Professor Jo Wood

Professor of Visual Analytics at City St George's

Geovis; datavis design; visual storytelling; literate vis; computer science education; computational thinking