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Xiuyi Fan

Xiuyi Fan Swansea University Welsh Crucible 2018 Xiuyi Fan (Fan) is a lecturer at the Department of Computer Science, Swansea University. He obtained his BSc, MSc degrees from University of Utah, and PhD from Imperial College London. Before joining Swansea, Fan worked at University of Utah, University of Sydney, Imperial College London, and Nanyang Technological University.

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Sean Walton

Sean Walton Swansea University Welsh Crucible 2017 Dr Sean Walton is a Computer Science Lecturer at Swansea University and Managing Director of Pill Bug Interactive, an independent games development studio. Sean’s research background is primarily related to simulation and visualisation techniques used by engineers, but increasingly his focus is switching to exploring ways of using

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Wayne Aubrey

Wayne Aubrey Aberyswyth University Welsh Crucible 2016 Wayne obtained his BSc degree in Biochemistry at Aberystwyth University. He went on the complete an MSc in Bioinformatics at Exeter University before returning to Aberystwyth to complete a PhD in molecular biology / Computer Science. Having completed post-doc positions at Aberystwyth and Manchester University he returned to

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Patrica Shaw

Patricia Shaw Aberystwyth University Welsh Crucible 2016 Patricia received her B.Sc. in Artificial Intelligence (2005) and Ph.D. in Computer Science (2010) from the University of Durham, where she was also a Teaching Fellow (2008-2010), in Artificial Intelligence at both undergraduate and post-graduate levels.  She then moved to Aberystwyth University to take a position as a

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Yukun Lai

Yukun Lai Cardiff University Welsh Crucible 2015 Yukun obtained his Bachelor’s and PhD degrees from Department of Computer Science and Technology, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China in 2003 and 2008 respectively. He has been a lecturer in School of Computer Science and Informatics, Cardiff University since 2009, where he is a member of the Visual Computing

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Grigorios Loukides

Grigorios Loukides Kings College London (formerly Cardiff University) Welsh Crucible 2014 Grigorios is a Royal Academy of Engineering Research Fellow and a Lecturer in the School of Computer Science & Informatics, Cardiff University. From 2008 to 2011, he was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Health Information Privacy Laboratory, Vanderbilt University, USA. Grigorios received a

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Stephen Lindsay

Stephen Lindsay Swansea University Welsh Crucible 2014 Stephen obtained his BSc, MSc and PhD in Computer Science at Newcastle University. His PhD focused on engaging older adults and people living with dementia in the design and deployment of digital technologies to improve their quality of life. He worked as a researcher and teaching fellow for

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Tom Crick

Tom Crick MBE Swansea University (formerly Cardiff Metropolitan University) Welsh Crucible 2014 Tom is a Senior Lecturer in Computing Science at Cardiff Metropolitan University, having completed his PhD and post-doctoral research at the University of Bath. His research interests lie at the hardware/software interface (and the performance of each): compilers and code optimisation, next-generation microprocessors,

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Tomás Sánchez López

Tomás Sánchez López Airbus (formerly EADS UK) Welsh Crucible 2013 Tomás obtained his MSc in Computer Science at the Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain, in 2004, and a PhD in the same discipline at the Korean Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, South Korea, in 2008. From there, Tomas moved to Cambridge University where he

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Amanda Clare

Amanda Clare Aberystwyth University Welsh Crucible 2013 Amanda is a Lecturer in the Bioinformatics Group in the Department of Computer Science at Aberystwyth University. Previously she held an EPSRC/RAEng Research Fellowship and before that, a Fellowship from the Royal Commission for the Great Exhibition of 1851. Her research involves multi-relational machine learning and data mining,

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