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
   (formerly Year 1: Professional Issues and Software Engineering)
   TB 1-2 2006-2007, TB 1-2 2007-2008, TB 1-2 2008-2009
3. Year 1: LaTeX and Linux-Lecturer (open to all University students)
   TB 2 2007-2008
4. Year 1: Computers Unplugged-Lecturer (open to all University students)
   TB 1 2007-2008
5. Year 2: G52SWM Developing Maintainable Software -Lecturer
   (formerly COMP2013)
   Autumn 2020-2021
6. Year 2: Data Communications and Computer Networks-Lecturer
   TB 2 2008-2009
7. Year 2: Software Engineering I -Lecturer and Tutorial Group Supervision
   TB 1 2009-2010, TB 1 2010-2011, TB 1 2011-2012, TB 1 2012-2013
8. Year 2: Software Engineering II -Lecturer and Tutorial Group Supervision
   TB 2 2009-2010 -- 2019
9. Year 2: Software Engineering Tutorial
   -Tutorial Group Coordinator
   TB 1-2 2010-2011, TB 1-2 2011-2012
10. Year 3: Data Visualization-Lecturer
    TB 1 2009-2010 -- 2019
11. Year 3: Project Implementation and Dissertation-Student Project Supervision
    TB 2 2006-2007 -- present
12. Year 3: Project Specification and Development -Student Project Supervision
    TB 1 2006-2007 -- present
13. Undergraduate Computer Science Colloquium at Gregynog -Coordinator
    TB 1 2009-2010, TB 1 2010-2011, TB 1 2012-2013 TB 1 2013-2014
14. Project Demonstration Fair -Organizer
    TB 2 2012-2013 -- present
15. Masters: Programming: Principles and Practice-Guest Lecturer
    TB 1 2008-2009
16. Masters: MEng Group Project -Coordinator
    TB 1-2 2014-2015
17. Masters: Data Visualization -Lecturer
    TB 1-2 2006-2007 -- 2019
18. Masters: Computer Science Project Development -Project Supervision
    TB 2 2012-2013 -- present
19. Masters: MEng Industrial Project -Coordinator
    TB 1-2 2014-2015
20. Masters: Programming and Graphics APIs-Project Supervision
    TB 1-2 2007-2008
21. Masters: MSc Software Project -Project Supervision and Internal Examiner
    TB 1-2 2008-2009, TB 2 2009-2010
22. Masters: MSc Software Technology Project Development -Project Supervision
    TB 2 2012-2013 -- present
23. Masters: Interaction Technologies: Seminars and Readings-Guest Lecturer
    TB 1 2006-2007
24. Masters: MRes in Visual Computing-Project Supervision
    TB 1-2 2007-2008, TB 1-2 2010-2011, TB 1-2 2011-2012
25. Masters: Software Engineering Principles-Lecturer
    TB 2 2011-2012, TB 2 2012-2013, TB 2 2013-2014, TB 2 2014-2015, TB 1-2 2015-2016, TB 1-2 2016-2017
26. Masters: State of the Art Computer Graphics and Visualization-Coursework Assessment
    TB 1 2008-2009, TB 1 2009-2010
27. College of Science Doctoral Training Seminar -Lecturer
    TB 2 2016-2017 -- 2019

International and Invited Teaching

1. 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
2. Robert S. Laramee, An Introduction to Scientific Visualisation,
   Invited Lecture at the Hartree Centre Summer School, Warrington, UK, 15-19 June 2015
3. Robert S. Laramee, Data Visualization: A Starting Point,
   Invited Postgraduate Research (PGR) Course, Swansea University, Swansea, UK, 25 March 2015
4. 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 )
5. 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
6. Robert S. Laramee, An Introduction to Scientific Visualisation,
   Invited Lecture at the Hartree Centre Summer School, Warrington, UK, 13-18 July 2014
7. Robert S. Laramee 706.020 AK Mensch-Maschine Kommunikation: Scientific Visualisation,
   Guest Professor at Graz University of Technology, Austria, Summer 2012
8. 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 )
9. 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 )
10. 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
11. 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
12. 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. and MEng Projects

1. Luciano James, Visualization of Football Event Data, MSc, 2020
2. James Williams, Visualization of Financial Data, MSc, 2020
3. Cheng Qian, Visualizing the Lipid Journey Through the Protein Membrane Landscape, MSc, 2018-2019
4. Greg Stait Carrington, Visualization of Health Economics Outcomes Research (HEOR) Data, MSc, 2018-2019
5. Benjamin Rees, Digital Dungeons and Dragons, MSc, 2018-2019
6. Carrianne Santos, Visualization of Molecular Dyanamics Simulation Data, MSc, 2018-2019
7. Joseph Seddon, Visualization of Questionnaire Data, MSc, 2018-2019, Distinction.
8. Liwen Pan, Interactive Visualization of Project Tycho Data, Advanced MSc, 2017-2018
9. Carlo Sarli, Med Practice Assistant, MEng Project, 2017-2018, Distinction.
10. Elif Firat, Visualization of Project Tycho Data 2017, Advanced MSc. Distinction. Elif is now a PhD candidate in Data Visualization.
11. Xiaoxiao Liu, Interactive Visualization of Shakespeare's Othello 2017, MSc. Distinction. Xiaoxiao published a revised version of her masters thesis as a book. ( PDF )
12. Qiru Wang, Smart City Visualization 2017, Advanced MSc. Distinction ( PDF, video )
13. Dimitrios Pozaritis, Visualization of Animal Sensor Data 2016-2017, Advanced MSc.
14. Donal Evans, Visualization of Molecular Dynamics Simulation Data 2016, MSc, Distinction
15. 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 )
16. 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 )
17. Alex Doney, Mobile Green Energy Evaluator, 2013-2014, MSc
18. Ryan Wong, Mobile Visual Boundaries, 2013-2014, MEng, Distinction, Winner of the Best Student Project Prize as voted for by Industry.
19. Haya Dossary, Visualization of Enterprise Education Student Questionnaire Data, 2012-2013, MSc, Distinction
20. Hassan Alshehri, Visualization of Enterprise Education Student Questionnaire Data, 2012-2013, MSc, Distinction
21. Keiren Oakley, Diary Droid Application, 2011-2012, MEng, Distinction
22. Peter Twibill, Visualization of Smart Grid Energy Data, 2011-2012, MEng in conjunction with Grid-Tools.com, Distinction
23. Mohammed Alharbi, Visualization of Questionnaire Data, 2011, MSc. Distinction ( video )
24. Abdulrahman Qahtani, Advanced Visualization of Electroencephalography (EEG) Data, MSc. Dissertation, October, 2010
25. Deyu Gai, Visualization of Animal Tracking Data, MSc. Dissertation, December 2009
26. Matthew Edmunds, Flow Visualization with Stream Surfaces, MSc. Dissertation, October 2009, Distinction
    Matthew went on to earn a PhD in flow visualization.

Student Supervision-Successfully Completed BSc. Projects

1. Fraser Barrass, Discord Bot, Third Year BSc. Project, 2019-2020 (with Alma Rahat)
2. Mohammed Bello-Tukur, An Android Video Game Manager, Third Year BSc. Project, 2019-2020 (with Alma Rahat)
3. Marinos Nicolaou, Visualization of Financial Data Third Year BSc. Project, 2019-2020 (with Alma Rahat)
4. Marcos Pallikaras, Version Variation Visualization, Third Year BSc. Project, 2019-2020 (with Matt Roach)
5. Jacob Roberts, Smart City Visualization, Third Year BSc. Project, 2019-2020 (with Matt Roach)
6. Caellan G Sailes, Molecular Dynamics Visualization, Third Year BSc. Project, 2019-2020 (with Ben Mora)
7. Wei Chong Siah, Financial Tech Visualization, Third Year BSc. Project, 2019-2020 (with Alma Rahat)
8. Artjoms Tomasevics, Financial Tech Visualization for Android Devices, Third Year BSc. Project, 2019-2020 (with Alma Rahat)
9. Sze Chai Wong (Matthew) Wong, Footbal Visualization, Third Year BSc. Project, 2019-2020 (with Deepak Sahoo)
10. Rees Reynolds, Smart City Visualization, Third Year BSc. Project, 2018-2019
11. Thomas Taylor, Premier League Forecasting: Visualization of Sports Predictions, Third Year BSc. Project, 2018-2019
12. Richard Marton, Medical Data, Its Processing, and the Impact of Technology, Third Year BSc. Project, 2018-2019
13. Rhodri Fabbro, Metaphors for Molecules: Alternative Graphical Representations for Molecular Dynamics Simulation Data, Third Year BSc. Project, 2017-2018, Distinction
14. Joseph Oladitan, Visualization of Healthcare Data, Third Year BSc. Project, 2016-2017
15. Tereza Stoyanova, Visualization of Test Data, Third Year BSc. Project, 2016-2017
16. Carlo Ernesto Sarli, Building a Software Synthesizer, Third Year BSc. Project, 2016-2017
17. Tom Shackleton, Visualization of Health Care Data, Third Year BSc. Project, 2016-2017
18. Tsz Hin Tung, Visualization of Health Care Data, Third Year BSc. Project, 2015-2016
19. William Clark, An Android Security Lab, Third Year BSc. Project, 2015-2016, Distinction
20. Robert Fitzpatrick, Democratising Technologies Open Brief, Third Year BSc. Project, 2015-2016
21. Alfie Moroney, Android Meets Arduino, Third Year BSc. Project, 2015-2016
22. Christopher Jenkins, Pong Revisited: A Ray-Traced Implementation, Third Year BSc. Project, 2014-2015
23. Gavin Tsang, Ray Tracing: An Explanation and Implementation of the Ray Tracing Algorithm, Third Year BSc. Project, 2014-2015, Distinction
24. Michael Preece, Collision Detection: Physics in Game Engines, Third Year BSc. Project, 2014-2015
25. James Ellis, Visual History Gamification, Third Year BSc. Project, 2013-2014, Distinction
26. John Rowley, Interactive Visualization of Tidal Flow, Third Year BSc. Project, 2013-2014
27. Rodrigo Rogers, Visualization of Animal Sensor Data, Third Year BSc. Project, 2013-2014
28. Alex Chase, Visualization of Football Data, Third Year BSc. Project, 2012-2013
29. 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
30. 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
31. Michael Nicholas, Visualizing Work-Based Learning (WBL) Data in Wales, Third Year BSc. Project, 2011-2012, Distinction ( video )
32. Zoltan Hajnal, Smartphone Meets Smartcalendar, Third Year BSc. Project, 2011-2012
33. 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 ( video, PDF ) Ferdinand went on to write a PhD at Swansea University and is now a Tutor in the Computer Science Department.
34. James Walker, Visualization of Animal Tracking Data, Third Year BSc. Project, 2010-2011, Distinction ( dissertation, video )
    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 is now a PhD candidate at Swansea University.
35. Kingsley Hau, Visualization of Brain Activity Data, Third Year BSc. Project, 2010-2011, Distinction ( video )
36. Ho Yuen Wan, Visualising Boundary Surfaces from Computational Fluid Dynamics Data, Third Year BSc. Project, 2009-2010, Distinction
37. Marc Harry, Comparing and Evaluating Computer Graphics and Visualization Software, Third Year BSc. Project, 2008-2009
38. Matt Reid, Cartograms and the Worldmapper Project, Third Year BSc. Project, 2008-2009
39. Essam Farrag, Comparing and Evaluating Computer Graphics and Visualization Software, Third Year BSc. Project, 2007-2008
40. Nicholas Hammett, Visualization of Brain Activity Data, Third Year BSc. Project, 2007-2008
41. Daniel O'Sullivan, Network Security: Patrolling the Network, Third Year BSc. Project, 2007-2008

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