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Current Address: (new as of 2 Sep 2011) 41 Huntingdon Way Tycoch Swansea SA2 9HN Wales, UK home: (+44) 01792 542 162 mobile: (+44) 0777 2922 564 |
Business Address: Computer Science Department Swansea University Swansea SA2 8PP Wales, UK (+44) 01792 602-609 |
| Education |
PhD in Computer Science, Vienna University of Technology,
Vienna, Austria, 2005 MSc in Computer Science, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, 2000 BS in Physics with a minor in Computer Science, Cum Laude, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, 1997 Study of Physics and Computer Science, University of Hull, Kingston-Upon-Hull, England, 1995-96 (exchange student program) | ||||||||||||||
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Experience 2006-present |
Computer Science, Swansea University, Swansea, SA2
8PP, Wales, UK,
http://www.swansea.ac.uk/compsci/
Senior Lecturer in Visual Computing, 2010-present Lecturer in Visual Computing, 2006-2010 Responsible for teaching and research in the area of data visualization with an emphasis on scientific visualization. A lecturer in the UK is roughly the equivalent of an assistant professor in the U.S. and Canada or junior professor in Germany and Austria. In principle, a lecturer's time is divided up into approximately 45% research, 45% teaching, and 10% services. This allocation of time is subject to strong variation. A senior lecturer is roughly the equivalent of an associate professor. | ||||||||||||||
| 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. | ||||||||||||||
| Computer Skills | All research and professional development on Red Hat Linux since 1998. Programming Experience includes C since 1995, Java 1.1/1.2/2.0 since 1998, and C++ since 2001. Programming experience with the following libraries/APIs: OpenGL 1.2, FOX, Java3D, and VisAD. Programming with the SNiFF+ platform-independent development environment since 2001. | ||||||||||||||
| Professional Activities |
[45]
Program Co-Chair of
IVAPP 2013 -The International Conference on Information
Visualization Theory and Applications in
Barcelona, Spain, 23-26 February 2013 - http://www.ivapp.visigrapp.org/
[44]
International Program Committee (IPC) Member of
SIGRAD 2012 – Interactive Visual Analysis of Data,
the Swedish Chapter of EUROGRAPHICS,
Linnaeus University, Växjö, Sweden, 29-30 November 2012
[43]
International Program Committee (IPC) Member of
IEEE Visualization 2012 (Vis 2012)
in Seattle, Washington, 14-19 October 14-19, 2012
[42]
International Program Committee (IPC) Member of
EuroVis Short Papers, part of the Joint
EUROGRAPHICS - IEEE VGTC
Symposium on Visualization (EuroVis 2012) in
Vienna, Austria, 5-8 June 2012
[41]
International Program Committee (IPC) Member of
the IADIS (International Association for Development
of the Information Society)
International Conference on
Computer Graphics, Visualization, Computer
Vision, and Image Processing (CGVCVIP) 2012,
Lisbon, Portugal, 21-23 July 2012
[40]
International Program Committee (IPC) Member of
Data Visualization, the Joint
EUROGRAPHICS - IEEE VGTC
Symposium on Visualization (EuroVis 2012) in
Vienna, Austria, 5-8 June 2012
[39]
International Program Committee (IPC) Member of
The 7th International Symposium on Visual Computing (ISVC) 2012
Crete, Greece, 16-18 July 2012
[38]
International Program Committee (IPC) Member of
the 7th International Conference on
Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software
Engineering (ENASE 2011)
28 June - 1 July 2012,
Wroclaw, Poland
[37]
International Program Committee (IPC) Member of
the 28th Spring Conference on Computer
Graphics 2012 (SCCG 2012),
2-4 May 2012, Budmerice, Slovakia
[36]
Program Co-Chair of
IVAPP 2012 -The International Conference on Information
Visualization Theory and Applications in
Rome, Italy, 24-26 February 2012 [35]
Publications Technician for the IEEE VisWeek 2011
Proceedings, 23-28 October 2011, Providence, RI [34]
International Program Committee (IPC) Member of
the Working with Uncertainty Workshop 2011,
(in conjunction with IEEE VisWeek 2011)
23 October 2011, Providence, RI [33]
International Program Committee (IPC) Member of
the 27th Spring Conference on Computer
Graphics 2011 (SCCG 2011),
28-30 April 2011, Budmerice, Slovakia
[32]
International Program Committee (IPC) Member of
The 7th International Symposium on Visual Computing (ISVC) 2011
in Las Vegas, Nevada, 26-28 September 2011
[31]
International Program Committee (IPC) Member of
the IADIS (International Association for Development
of the Information Society)
International Conference on
Computer Graphics, Visualization, Computer
Vision, and Image Processing (CGVCVIP) 2011,
Rome, Italy, 24 - 26 July 2011
[30]
Co-Chair of
EUROGRAPHICS Posters 2011 in
Llandudno, Wales, 11-15 April 2011
[29]
International Program Committee (IPC) Member of
EUROGRAPHICS Education Papers 2011 in
Llandudno, Wales, 11-15 April 2011
[28]
International Program Committee (IPC) Member of
Data Visualization, the Joint
EUROGRAPHICS - IEEE VGTC
Symposium on Visualization (EuroVis 2011) in
Bergen, Norway, 1-3 June 2011
[27]
International Program Committee (IPC) Member of
the 6th International Conference on
Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software
Engineering (ENASE 2011)
8-11 June 2011 in
Beijing, China
[26]
International Program Committee (IPC) Member of
the 4th Workshop on Topology-Based Methods in Data Analysis
and Visualization (TopoInVis) 2011, 4-6 April 2011,
Zurich, Switzerland [25]
Panel Member of the Doctoral Colloquium
at IEEE VisWeek 2010,
24 October 2010,
Salt Lake City, Utah [24]
Panel Member of the Doctoral Research Workshop
at the 14th International Conference on Information
Visualisation (IV10), 26 July 2010, London South Bank
University, London, UK [23]
International Program Committee (IPC) Member of
the 26th Spring Conference on Computer
Graphics 2010 (SCCG 2010),
May 13-15 2010, Budmerice, Slovakia [22]
International Program Committee (IPC) Member of
The 6th International Symposium on Visual Computing (ISVC) 2010
in Las Vegas, Nevada, 29 November -1 December 2010
[21]
Program Chair of The Research Institute of
Visual Computing (RIVIC) Graduate School,
6-9 April 2010,
Swansea, UK
[20]
International Program Committee (IPC) Member of
the 5th International Conference on
Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software
Engineering (ENASE 2010)
22-24 July 2010 in
Athens, Greece
[19]
International Program Committee (IPC) Member of
the IADIS (International Association for Development
of the Information Society)
International Conference on
Computer Graphics, Visualization, Computer
Vision, and Image Processing (CGVCVIP) 2010,
Freiburg, Germany, 27-29 July 2010 [18]
International Program Committee (IPC) Member of
IEEE VisWeek 2009 - Visualization Posters,
Atlantic City, NJ, Oct. 11-16, 2009
[17]
International Program Committee (IPC) Member of
ReVisE (Refactoring Visualization from Experience) Workshop,
in Atlantic City, NJ, Oct. 11-16, 2009
(held in conjunction with IEEE VisWeek 2009)
[16]
International Program Committee (IPC) Member of
The 5th International Symposium on Visual Computing (ISVC) 2009
in Las Vegas, Nevada, 30 November -2 December 2009
[15]
International Program Committee (IPC) Member of
the 25th Spring Conference on Computer
Graphics 2009 (SCCG 2009),
April 23-25 2009, Budmerice, Slovakia [14]
International Program Committee (IPC) Member of
the IADIS (International Association for Development
of the Information Society)
International Conference on
Computer Graphics, Visualization, Computer
Vision, and Image Processing (CGVCVIP) 2009,
Algarve, Portugal, 20-22 June 2009 [13]
Workshop Co-Chair for the Knowledge-Assisted
Visualization (KAV) Workshop in Columbus, Ohio,
19 October 2008
(in conjuction with IEEE Visualization 2008)
[12]
International Program Committee (IPC) Member of
the IEEE Visualization Conference
(Vis2008) in Columbus, Ohio,
19-24 October 2008
[11]
International Program Committee (IPC) Member of
Data Visualization, the Joint
EUROGRAPHICS - IEEE VGTC
Symposium on Visualization (EuroVis 2008) in
Eindhoven, The Netherlands, 26-28 May 2008 [10]
International Program Committee (IPC) Member of
SimVis 2008, the Annual Conference for Simulation and
Visualization in Magdeburg, Germany, 28-29 February 2008 [9]
International Program Committee (IPC) Member of
The 4th International Symposium on Visual Computing (ISVC) 2008
in Las Vegas, Nevada, 1-3 December 2008
[8]
International Program Committee (IPC) Member of Theory and
Practice of Computer Graphics (TPCG) 2008
-the UK Chapter of the Eurographics Association (EGUK)
in Manchester, England, 9-11 June 2008 [7]
International Program Committee (IPC) Member of
CyberGames 2008 -the International Conference on
Games Research and Development,
Beijing, China, 27-30 October 2008 [6]
International Program Committee (IPC) Member of
the IADIS (International Association for Development
of the Information Society)
International Conference on
Computer Graphics and Visualization (CGV) 2008,
Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 24-26 July 2008 [5]
Organizing Chair for the Knowledge-Assisted
Visualization (KAV) Workshop 2007 in
Sacramento, California,
29 October 2007
(in conjuction with IEEE Visualization 2007)
[4]
International Program Committee (IPC) Member of
CyberGames 2007 -the International Conference on
Games Research and Development,
Manchester, England,
10 September 2007
[3]
International Program Committee (IPC) Member of
the IADIS (International Association for Development
of the Information Society)
International Conference on
Computer Graphics and Visualization (CGV) 2007,
Lisbon, Portugal, 5-7 July 2007
[2]
International Program Committee (IPC) Member of Theory and
Practice of Computer Graphics (TPCG) 2007
-the UK Chapter of the Eurographics Association (EGUK)
in Bangor, Wales,
13-15 June 2007
[1]
Organizing Chair for the 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 conferences, journals, workshops, and organizations:
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| Awards, Honors, and Impact |
Translation Arrays: Version Variation Visualization Phase 2, Tom Cheesman (Principle Investigator), Robert S. Laramee (Co-Investigator), Bridging the Gaps (BTG) Escalator Fund Award, Swansea University Research Forum (SURF) (BTGE044), 2012, £3,000.00 Visualization of Flow Past a Marine Turbine: The Search for Sustainable Energy, Robert S. Laramee (Principle Investigator), T. Nick Croft (Co-Investigator), Bridging the Gaps (BTG) Escalator Fund Award, Swansea University Research Forum (SURF) (BTGE045), 2012, £5,000.00 Translation Arrays: Version Variation Visualization, Tom Cheesman (Principle 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.
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. Advanced Visualization of Animal Tracking Data, Robert S. Laramee (Principle Investigator), Markus Roggenbach (Co-Investigator), Huw Price (Co-Investigator), Knowledge Economy Skills Scholarship (KESS) Mini Grant (in cooperation with Grid-Tools Ltd.), 2011-2012, £31,124.06 Application of Artificial Intelligence (AI) Techniques to Generation of Test Data with Trends, Markus Roggenbach (Principle Investigator), Robert S. Laramee (Co-Investigator), Huw Price (Co-Investigator), Access to Masters (ATM) Grant (in cooperation with Grid-Tools Ltd.), 2011-2012, £8,450.00 How to Read a Visualization Paper: Extracting the Essentials is featured on the front cover of IEEE Computer Graphics & Applications (IEEE CG & A) Volume 31, Number 3 May/June 2011 (pages 78-82). This article is also highlighted on Non Profit News.org, one of the world’s most respected sources of news, information, and opinion for the online nonprofit community. It provides a stream of news and resources related to emerging issues in the nonprofit world, with a particular emphasis on communication and new technology. Here's the link to the article. Advanced Visualization of Electroencephalography (EEG) Data, Robert S. Laramee (Principle Investigator), Christoph Weidemann (Co-Investigator), Bridging the Gaps (BTG) Escalator Fund Award, Swansea University, 2011, £7,000.00 Using Visualization to Debug Visualization Software is highlighted in the December 2010 issue of Computing Now-( computingNow.computer.org ) a web site featuring content from the IEEE Computer Society's peer-reviewed publications. The article is referenced in the Computing Now newsletter (computingNow.computer.org/newsletter) which reaches more than 76,000 subscribers. Here's the link to the article. Othello: Visualizing Re-Translation Variation, Tom Cheesman (Principle Investigator), David Berry (Co-Investigator), Robert S. Laramee (Co-Investigator), Andrew J Rothwell (Co-Investigator), Research Institute for Arts and Humanities (RIAH) Research Initiatives Fund (RIF), Swansea University, 2011, £13,567.00 Advanced Visual Interfaces for Information Seeking and Retrieval, Robert S. Laramee (Principle 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 Bob, together with Robert van Liere, Gerik Scheuermann, and Kwan-Liu Ma, is featured as a Guest Editor in a Special Issue of the Computers & Graphics (C&G) journal, Vol. 33, No. 5, October 2009, pages 583-584, on Knowledge Assisted Visualization (KAV). Two workshops on Knowledge Assisted Visualization were organized in 2007 and 2008 in conjunction with the IEEE Visualization Conference. This special issue of C&G contains peer-reviewed, revised, and expanded versions of the four best papers selected from these workshops. Photos: Data Visualisation –The Case for Graphic Clarity is an article featured on ComputerWeekly.com-a popular web site dedicated to providing IT professionals with the best information, knowledge, and range of solutions that enable them to succeed in industry. This article highlights the research of Grundy et al on the visualization of animal tracking data. Here is a link to the Computer Weekly article. This same research project is also featured on the popular web site The New Scientist (Visions of Data). The New Scientist reports on the very latest science and technology news. The web site has an audience of over 3 million unique users as of March 2009. Here is a link to the New Scientist article. 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%. Bob is featured in the Top cited authors from 2000 to March 2009 list in the Computer Graphics Forum (CGF) journal. This is according to the Wiley Publisher's Report presented at the Computer Graphics Forum Editorial Board Meeting, EUROGRAPHICS, Munich, Germany, 31 March 2009. Bob is the 18th most cited author out of approximately 850 (top 2.1%). How to Write A Visualization Paper: The Art and Mechanics by Robert S. Laramee was selected as one of the best two education papers 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 and Eddie are featured in Tino Weinkauf's IEEE VisWeek 2007 Fast Forward Slides on Cores of Swirling Motion in Unsteady Flow. Click here to view the slides. Interactive, High-Dimensional Flow Visualization Using Image Space-Based Approaches by Robert S. Laramee (Principle Investigator), Research Grant funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Resource Council (EPSRC EP/F002335/1), UK, 2007-2010, £232,272.00 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, drinking single malt Scotch Whisky from the island of Islay (Scotland), Deutsch als Fremdsprache-besonders muendlich, fitness and healthy eating | ||||||||||||||
| References | Available online | ||||||||||||||
