Panagiotis D. Ritsos

MEng PhD Essex, FHEA

Senior Lecturer in Visualization

XReality, Visualization and
Analytics (XRVA) Lab

Human-Centered Computing (HCC)
Research Group

School of Computer Science
and Engineering,

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

Supervision (Research)

Bangor University

Research Officers

Doctoral Students

  • 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
  • Joshua Davies, Natural Language Processing, (with Dr W. Teahan): 2019 - present
  • Conor Spann^, Medical Imaging, (with Dr F. Vidal): 2020 - 2025
  • 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

  • Sarah Hartill^, Medical Visualization and Analytics, 2025 - present
  • 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