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Professor Roy Ruddle

Professor Roy Ruddle

  • Position: Professor of Computing
  • Areas of expertise: visualization; human-computer interaction; visual analytics; data quality; health informatics; gigapixel displays
  • Email: R.A.Ruddle@leeds.ac.uk
  • Phone: +44(0)113 343 1711
  • Location: 2.04b Sir William Henry Bragg Building
  • Website: My Personal Site

Profile

I am best known for my research into novel interactive visualization techniques, ‘Powerwall’ displays, data science, data quality, virtual reality, navigation and human computer interaction.

I co-founded the Leeds Institute for Data Analytics (LIDA), and and have been an Alexander von Humboldt Foundation fellow and an Alan Turing Institute fellow.

Responsibilities

  • Research technology director, Leeds Institute for Data Analytics (LIDA)

Research interests

For details of my work, please look at these webpages: Visualization, virtual pathology, virtual reality (VR).

My current research projects are

  • Making Visualization Scalable (MAVIS) for explaining machine learning classification models
  • DynAIRx: AI for Dynamic prescribing optimisation and care integration in multimorbidity

 

<h4>Research projects</h4> <p>Some research projects I'm currently working on, or have worked on, will be listed below. Our list of all <a href="https://eps.leeds.ac.uk/dir/research-projects">research projects</a> allows you to view and search the full list of projects in the faculty.</p>

Student education

I presently teach Information visualization (COMP3736) and Data Science (COMP5122M). In LIDA, I deliver an annual CPD workshop about Tableau, and jointly run the interdisciplinary special interest group about data visualization.

Research groups and institutes

  • Computing in Biology, Medicine and Health
  • Computational Science and Engineering
<h4>Postgraduate research opportunities</h4> <p>We welcome enquiries from motivated and qualified applicants from all around the world who are interested in PhD study. Our <a href="https://phd.leeds.ac.uk">research opportunities</a> allow you to search for projects and scholarships.</p>
Projects
    <li><a href="//phd.leeds.ac.uk/project/292-investigating-how-to-exploit-ultra-high-definition-(uhd+)-displays-to-visualize-genomics-data">Investigating how to exploit ultra-high definition (UHD+) displays to visualize genomics data</a></li> <li><a href="//phd.leeds.ac.uk/project/307-methods-of-mapping-websites-to-assist-users-navigation">Methods of mapping websites to assist users' navigation</a></li> <li><a href="//phd.leeds.ac.uk/project/311-the-scalability-of-data-visualization-on-high-resolution-displays">The scalability of data visualization on high-resolution displays</a></li>