Research Internships, Research Assistants, Visiting Researchers
2025-26 Jamie Knapman Nawid Salimi (Google Deepmind)
2025-26 Sabir Uddin, Omar Sanad (Swansea Employability Fund)
2024-25 Arvinder Bali (EPSRC IAA Fund, AI/ML Researcher)
2024-25 Daniel Cho (Swansea Employability Fund)
2023-24 Ertugrul Gul (TUBİTAK, Visiting Researcher, Kayseri University)
2023-24 Shreyas Shahapur (Swansea Employability Fund)
2022-23 Jishma Siraj, Ananthakrishnan Venugopal, Olabayoji Oluwatofunmi Oladepo, Vijayalekshmi Jayakumar (WINS)
2022-23 Satyajit Rao (Swansea Employability Fund)
2021-22 Avishek Siris (CherishDE - Escalator Award)
2020-22 Abdelrahman Abdelhalim, Elaenor Baker-Johnson, Amy Stuart (CherishDE - Knowledge Exchange)
2019-20 Gareth Andrews, Jia Li Ong, William Webb (CherishDE - Knowledge Exchange)
2019-20 Jan Dabrowski (CherishDE - International Collaboration, NTU.sg visit)
2018-19 Mart Krol (Dutch Erasmus 15wk)
2018-19 Gareth Andrews, Avishek Siris (CherishDE - Collaboration Incentive Fund)
2017-18 Sam Endean, Gareth Andrews (The Coleg Cymraeg)
2014-15 Godfrey Damabel (CS Internship)
2013-14 David George (CS Internship)
PhD Supervision
- Connor Atkins 2024- (Main supervisor: Jiaxiang Zhang, Mike Edwards)
- Alex Milne 2024- (Main supervisor: Xianghua Xie)
- Matt Ploszajski 2024- (Main supervisor: Xianghua Xie)
- Alex Warren 2023- (Co-supervisors: Rynson Lau)
- Charles Bramble 2023- (Main supervisor: Xianghua Xie)
- Andreas Christodoulides 2023- (Co-supervisors: Sean Walton, Nicholas Micallef, Nelly Villamizar, Richard Smith)
- Keneni Tesema 2022- (Co-supervisors: Mark W Jone, Lyndon Hill, Muneeb Ahmad)
- Ali Guran 2021- (Co-supervisors: Rynson Lau, Xianghua Xie)
- Avishek Siris 2018-2022 (Co-supervisors: Rynson Lau, Xianghua Xie) / graduated 2022.
- Taiwei Wang 2015-2019 (Co-supervisors: Yukun Lai, Xianghua Xie) / graduated 2020.
- David George 2014-2018 (Co-supervisors: Xianghua Xie) / graduated 2019.
- Robert Palmer 2014-2016 (Main supervisor: Xianghua Xie) / graduated 2017.
MPhil Supervision
Hui Xiao, Dynamic Radiosity on Multi-resolution Models, (Main supervisor: Prof Rynson W.H. Lau)
Supervision Highlights
I am very fortunate to work with many very bright and hardworking students. Some highlight below:
2024-25 Daniel Cho [Best Overall CS Performance, Best CS Project Award]
2024-25 William Ledden [Best Overall CS&AI Performance, Best CS&AI Project Award, Outstanding Presentation Award]
2024-25 4D Welsh Fluency (Arvinder Bali) [published ACIVS2025 / Project page]
2023-24 Financial Timeseries Forecasting (Kasper Krawczyk) [Best Overall Performance on BSc Soft Eng, Highest Scoring SE Project / published IJCTE]
2022-23 Explainable Machine Learning For Financial Analysis (Olabayoji Oladepo) [Best MSc Computer Science Project]
2021-22 Visualization of Protein Data (Marcus Lim) [Best BSc Software Engineering Project]
2019-20 Financial Visualization (Rokas Rudys) [Honourable Mention of Good Dissertation]
2019-20 Puzzle Solver with Irregular Pieces (Christopher Lee) [Ranked 3rd Best BSc CS project]
2019-20 4D Facial Dynamics Analysis for the Welsh Language (Gareth Andrews) [Best MSc project award] [Technical report]
2018-19 Puzzle Solver (Kristiyan Vladimirov, Shuyu Goh) [published CGVC2019 / PDF]
2017-18 4D Facial Dynamics Analysis (Sam Endean) [Ranked 2nd Best BSc CS project] [Technical report]
2017-18 Financial Visualization (Avishek Siris) [CS Success Story]
2016-17 Jigsaw Puzzle Grabber & Solver (Anshul Kumar) - [Best BSc project award]
2013-14 Visualization of Biological Data (David George) - [published EuroVis2014 poster / PDF]
2007-08 Matching and Retrieval of Motion Capture Data (Mark Corbyn) - Personal Tutor, PI: Prof Rynson W.H. Lau [published ISM07]
A number of my project students were awarded scholarships for subsequent postgraduate study:
Alex Warren (Swansea PhD/GTA Scholarship, 2023),
Cameron Altenkirch (Swansea PhD Scholarship, 2020),
Jan Dabrowski (Edinburgh University, PhD Scholarship, 2019),
William Webb (HKU MSc International Scholarship, 2019)
Bassam (Swansea MSc Bursary, 2019)
Avishek Siris (Swansea PhD scholarship, 2018)
Gareth Andrews (Swansea MSc Scholarship, 2018)
David George (Swansea PhD scholarship, 2014)