Services
Service to the visualisation, graphics and computer science communities: organising workshops and seminars, editorial work, programme committees, and reviewing for journals and conferences.
Networks and professional leadership
Ongoing roles with learned societies, research networks and funding bodies.
- Conference chairEurographics Conference on Visualisation (EuroVis)2026
The largest data visualisation conference in Europe.
- ChairUK Chapter of the EuroGraphics Association (EGUK)2022–present
The largest computer graphics professional body in Europe.
- DirectorUK Chapter of the EuroGraphics Association (EGUK)2020–present
The leading UK professional organisation for computer graphics, including games, AR/VR and data visualisation.
- Panel memberUKRI Turing AI Pioneer interdisciplinary fellowships2026
The UK national centre for AI and data science.
- Founder and co-organiserGenerative AI Nottingham (GAIN) Special Interest Group2024–present
Part of Generative AI Nottingham, the university-wide generative AI initiative.
- MemberEPSRC Peer Review College2015–present
EPSRC is the main UK funding body for engineering, mathematics and physics, including computer science.
- Expert FellowEPSRC research network SPRITE+2020–present
A research network funded by EPSRC covering security, privacy, identity and trust.
Workshops and seminars
Conferences and events I have organised or co-chaired.
- Co-chairProvenance Visualisation workshop series at IEEE VIS2024, 2018
Held at IEEE VIS, the largest data visualisation conference.
Held at IEEE VIS in Melbourne, with the ambition of becoming an annual series targeting a different research community each year.
- OrganiserDagstuhl Seminar 18462: Provenance and Logging for Sense Making2018
- Co-chairWorkshop on Provenance and Visualization (ProvViz)2021
Part of Provenance Week, the leading international venue on provenance theory, application and practice.
- Co-chairMachine Learning from User Interactions for Visualization and Analytics (MLUI)2020, 2021
Part of VisWeek 2020.
- Programme co-chairComputer Graphics and Visual Computing (CGVC)2020, 2021
The annual conference of the Eurographics UK chapter, covering visualisation, graphics, games and AR/VR.
- Co-chairVisualizations and User Interfaces for Knowledge Engineering and Linked Data Analytics (VISUAL)2014
Part of the 19th International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management.
- Co-chairProvenance and Sensemaking workshop, IEEE VIS2014
Held during conference week in Paris.
- Co-chairVisual Analytics Workshop2011
- Co-chairFirst International Workshop on Graph Techniques for Biomedical Networks (GTBN)2009
In conjunction with IEEE BIBM 2009 in Washington, D.C.
- Workshop co-chairSustain the Engagement — Information Technology Design Meets Information Science Research2009
Co-sponsored by the CSIRO ICT Centre and the ARC Research Network in Enterprise Information Infrastructure.
Editorial
Special issues and guest editorial work.
- Guest editorIEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, special issue on “AI Governance, Authenticity, and Provenance for Visual Media”2026
- Guest editorComputers & Graphics Journal, special issue on Computer Graphics and Visual Computing2024, 2025
- Guest editorMDPI Computers Journal, special issue on Computer Graphics and Visual Computing2020, 2021
- Guest editorIEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, special issue on “Provenance analysis for sensemaking”2019
Covered research that analyses provenance to better understand how users make sense of data through information triage, foraging, reasoning, and hypothesis forming and testing.
Programme committees
Conferences where I have served on the programme or organising committee.
- Programme committee memberIVAPP2014
- Programme committee memberInternational Workshop on Internet-based Virtual Computing Environment (iVCE)2014
- Programme committee memberIV2012
- Programme committee memberSIGRAD2012
- Programme committee memberVAST2012
- Programme committee memberFifth International Workshop on Data Quality in Integration Systems (DQIS)2012
In conjunction with DASFAA 2012.
- Programme committee memberFourth International Workshop on Data Quality in Integration Systems (DQIS)2011
- Programme committee memberICDKE2010
- Programme committee memberAPweb2005, 2006
- Programme committee memberCoMoGIS (Conceptual Modeling for Geographic Information Systems)2004
In conjunction with the International Conference on Conceptual Modeling (ER) 2004.
- Organising committee memberAWOCA (Australasian Workshop on Combinatorial Algorithms)2004
- Organising committee memberAPVIS (Asia Pacific Symposium on Information Visualization)2005, 2007
The conference later became the IEEE Pacific Visualization Symposium.
- Organising committee memberPublicity and publication chair, WDPP (Workshop on Data and Process Provenance)2009
In conjunction with DASFAA 2009.
- Co-organiserEII-NICTA Workshop on Large-scale Network Analysis2005
Sponsored by National ICT Australia and the ARC Research Network in Enterprise Information Infrastructure.
Journal reviewing
Journals reviewed for as a reviewer.
- IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics2012
- IBM Journal of Research and Development2012
- Journal of Systems and Software2008
- IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering2011
- ACM Transactions on Information Systems2007
- Information Processing Letters2009
- Proteomics2010, 2011
Conference reviewing
Conference programme committees reviewed for.
- IEEE Pacific Visualization Symposium (PacificVis)2007, 2008, 2011, 2012, 2013
- IEEE VIS / EuroVis2011, 2012
- VAST2010, 2012
- Information Visualization Conference (InfoVis / IV)2008, 2010, 2012
- IFIP TC13 International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (INTERACT)2009
- ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW)2013
- International World Wide Web Conference (WWW)2009
- International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE)2006
- International Conference on Extending Database Technology (EDBT)2008
- International Conference on Bioinformatics (InCoB)2009
- Master of Philosophy, University of Sydney2010
- Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) funding proposals2011