Panagiotis D. Ritsos

MEng PhD Essex, FHEA

Senior Lecturer in Visualization

XReality, Visualization and
Analytics (XRVA) Lab

School of Computer Science
and Engineering,

Bangor University,
Dean Street, Bangor,
Gwynedd, UK, LL57 1UT

Supervision (Research)

Bangor University

Research Officers

Doctoral Students

  • Sarah Hartill^, Medical Visualization and Analytics, (with Dr P. Butcher): 2025 - present
  • Shannon Jones^, Human-Centered AI and Situated Analytics, (with Dr P. Butcher): 2023 - present
  • Daniel Farmer^, ML-enabled Visual Analytics for Smart Farming: 2021 - present
  • Aron Owen, Information Visualisation, (with Prof J.C. Roberts): 2021 - present
  • Conor Spann^, Medical Imaging, (with Dr F. Vidal): 2020 - present
  • Joshua Davies, Natural Language Processing, (with Dr W. Teahan): 2019 - present
  • Dr Syed Kaleem Aslam, Autonomous Robotic Systems, (with Dr W. Teahan): 2019 - 2022
  • Dr Shatha Al Maliki, Visualisation, Optimisation and Machine Learning, (with Dr F. Vidal): 2019 - 2021
  • Dr James Jackson, Information Visualisation, (with Prof J.C. Roberts): 2016 - 2021
  • Dr Pete Butcher, University of Chester, Immersive Analytics, (with Prof N.W. John): 2015 - 2020
= Principal Supervisor

Doctoral Committee Memberships

  • Owen Rhiannon^, Information Visualization: 2023 - present
  • Glory Ogbonda^, Information Visualization: 2023 - present
  • Dalya Al Khafaji, Natural Language Processing: 2023 - present
  • Sunday Nwokolo, Machine Learning: 2023 - present
  • Petra Pergar, University of Ljubljana, Urban Visual Analytics: 2021 - present
  • Joseph Mearman, Information Visualization: 2019 - present
  • Dr Sam Hennessey^, Pattern Recognition: 2024 - 2025

Masters by Research

  • David Roberts, Immersive/Situated Analytics, (with Dr Peter Butcher): 2025 - present
  • Alex Rigby, Visual Analytics for Environmental Sciences, (KESS), (with Dr Sopan Patil): 2020 - 2022

Supervision (Taugh Programmes)

Bangor University

University of Chester

  • 6 x BSc Dissertations: 2015/16
  • 1 x MSc Dissertation: 2015/16

Programme Lead

Taught Courses

Bangor University

University of Chester

  • CO-7003 Programming Paradigms: 2016/17
  • CO-6027 Managing a Web-based Environment: 2015/16
  • CO-6009 Final Year Dissertation: 2015/2016

Lab Demonstrations

Bangor University

  • ICP-1002 Unix Operation System: 2013/14
  • ICP-3011 Computer and Network Security: 2013/14
  • ICP-3038 Computer Vision: 2013/14
  • ICP-1029 Imperative Programming: 2012 - 2015

University of Essex

  • Analogue/Digital Design and Digital Signal Processing: 2000 - 2005
  • Analogue/Digital Design: 2000 - 2003
  • Computer Engineering (Handel C/ARM): 2002 - 2004