Computer Laboratory – PhD graduates of the Rainbow Group: PhD graduates

PhD graduates of the Rainbow Group

This page contains a list, in reverse chronological order, of the members of the Rainbow Group who have received PhDs as a result of research carried out in the group. There have been ninety-two PhDs awarded since the founding of the group in 1965.

There is a separate list of other past members of the Group.

NB: The information on this page may not be totally correct or up to date. If anyone has more up-to-date information about than that presently on this page, please email this information to Peter Robinson.


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Christopher Nash
Christian Richardt: Colour videos with depth
Laurel Riek: Affective Robotics
Shazia Afzal: Virtual teaching
Pradipta Biswas: Inclusive user interfaces
Tom Cashman: Subdivision surfaces
Cecily Morrison: Technology usage in co-present group interaction
Julian Smith: Robustness of CAD algorithms
Daniel Bernhard: Affective inference
Philip Tuddenham: Projected tabletop displays
Richard Southern: Novel modelling & animation mechanisms
Darren Edge: Tangible user interfaces
Gregory Hughes: Assistive technologies for people with visual disabilities
Mark Grundland: Image processing for the imagination
Tal Sobol-Shiker: Affective Computing
William Billingsley: Adaptive tutorial systems
Maja Vukovic: Context-aware applications
Stephen Rymill: Human-behaviour animation
Huiyun Li: ECAD - consumer security hardware
Scott Fairbanks: ECAD - system level timing
Rana El-Kaliouby: Reading human expressions as part of the user interface
Mo Hassan: Multi-resolution modelling
Carsten Moenning: Intrinsic point-based surface processing
Roongroj Nopsuwanchai: Handwriting recognition
Simon Frankau: ECAD - high-level hardware decription language
Panit Watcharawitch: ECAD - multi-threaded processors
Marc Cardle: Music-driven computer animation
Dr Mark Ashdown: Personal projected displays
Dr Rob Hague: Human-computer interaction
Dr Silas Brown: Automatic conversion of notations
Dr Stephen Brooks: (now an Assistant Professor at Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia, Canada); "Concise Texture Editing"
Dr Michael Blain: (now working at Next Limit in Madrid, Spain); "Animating Liquids"
Dr Paul Cunningham: (co-founder of Azuro, Cambridge); Self-timed circuits
Dr Richard Watts: (now working for Azuro in Cambridge); Video user interfaces
Dr Marco Gillies: (now working for British Telecom and University College, London); "Practical Behavioural Animation based on Vision and Attention" [TR 522] (PDF (11.1MB))
Dr Tony Polichroniadis: (now working at Pinewood Studios in London); "Definition and Control of Autonomous Actors"
Dr Andrew Penrose: (now working in Melbourn, England); "Extending Lossless Image Compression" [TR 526] (PDF (5.1MB))
Dr Jonathan Pfautz: (now working in Cambridge, Massachusetts); Perception of visual displays
Dr Breton Saunders: (now working in Cambridge, England); Animation
Dr James Gain: (now a Senior Lecturer at the University of Cape Town); "Enhancing Spatial Deformation for Virtual Sculpting" [TR 499]
Dr Calum Grant: "Software Visualization in Prolog" [TR 511] (PDF (2MB))
Dr Peter Brown: (now working at Data Connection); "Selective Mesh Refinement for Rendering" [TR 490]
Dr Stanley Mrose: (now working in London); Wavelet Representations of Multiresolution Curves and Surfaces
Dr Chris Faigle: (now working in the USA); Curved Surfaces & Multivariate Splines
Dr Stefan Hild: (now working for IBM Research Labs in Zurich); Mobile Computing
Dr Steev Wilcox: (co-founder of Azuro, Cambridge); "Synthesis of Asynchronous Circuits" [TR 468] (1999)
Dr Simeon Keates: "Computer Interaction for Motion-Impaired Users" (1998)
Dr Jon Sewell: (now working for Creative Dimension Software); "Managing Complex Models for Computer Graphics" [TR 420] (1995)
Dr Quentin Stafford-Fraser: (now a serial entrepreneur in Cambridge); "Video Augmented Environments" [TR 419] (1995)
Dr Uwe Nimscheck: (now working for McKinsey & Company in Germany); "Rendering for Free Form Deformations" [TR 381] (1995)
Dr Oliver Castle: (now "developing software in the entertainment sector" Probe Ltd, Croydon); "Synthetic Image Generation for a Multiple-View Autostereo Display" [TR 382] (1995)
Dr Pierre Welner: "Interacting with Paper on the DigitalDesk" (1995)
Dr Nicko Van Someren: (co-founder of nCipher); "De-Interlacing Interlaced Video" [missing] (1995)
Dr Jane Hunter: "Integrated Sound Synchronisation for Computer Animation" (1994)
Dr Martin Turner: (now at DeMontfort University, Leicester); "The Contour Tree Image Encoding Technique and Format" [TR 344] (1994)
Dr Adrian Wrigley: (founder of Advanced Rendering Technology (ART)); "HDTV framestore, Real-Time Ray Tracing" [missing] (1994)
Dr Steve Freeman: "An Architecture for Distributed User Interfaces" (1993)
Dr Dave Evers: "Distributed Computing with Objects" (1993)
Dr Neil Dodgson: (still here and now Reader in Graphics & Imaging); "Image Resampling" [TR 261] (1992) (PDF (2.5MB))
Dr W.H. Lau: "Realistic 3D Image Composition" (1992)
Dr S.C. Hsu: "Computer Support for Large Character set Languages" [missing] (1992)
Dr Tim Weigand: "Parallel Architecture for Retrieval of Spatial Data" (1992)
Dr Kamal Chaudhury: "VLSI Routing" (1991)
Dr Danny Hall: (co-founder of ART); "Pipelined Image Processing for Pattern Recognition" [missing] (1991)
Dr Jeremy Ball: "SEMORICA: A System Examining Motion and Object Representation issues in Computer Animation" (1991)
Dr Heng Wang: (now an Associate Professor at Peking University); "Modelling and Image Generation" (1991)
Dr David Brown: (last heard of working at SUN in California); "Abstraction of Image and Pixel - The Thistle Display System" (1991)
Dr Gianpaolo Tommasi: (last heard of working at SGI, Mountain View, California); "Procedural Methods in Computer Graphics" (1990)
Dr Stuart Hawkins: "Video Replay in Computer Animation" (1990)
Dr E.L. Goh: "Parallel Architectures with Fast Ray Tracing Image Synthesis" (1990)
Dr Mark Lomas: "Aspects of Network Security" (1990)
Dr R.D.Williams: "The Organization and Analysis of Spatial Data" (1989)
Dr Stephen Harrison: "Realistic Image Synthesis" (1989)
Dr Bruce A. Styne: "Management Systems for Computer Graphics" (1989)
Dr Tony R. King: (was at Olivetti Research, has now spun off to Telemedia Systems); "Parallel Image Manipulation Machine Architecture" (1989)
Dr Andrew M. Pullen: "Motion Development for Computer Animation" (1988)
Dr Peter Hemingway: (Working at Cabot Communications, Bristol); "Computer Display Architecture" (1988)
Dr Tim H. Glauert: "Presentation Issues for Interactive Graphics" (1986)
Dr Kathy A. Carter: "Computer-aided Typeface Design" [missing] (1986)
Dr Alan Greggains: (Working in Web site design); "A Structured Computer Environment" (1985)
Dr A. John Wilkes: (Working at Hewlett Packard, Palo Alto, California); "Workstation Design for Distributed Computing" (1984)
Dr Dave W. Singer: "Event Management" [missing] (1981)
Dr A.M. Pringle: "Computers and Printing" (1980)
Dr M.J. Jordan: (now at Sun Labs); "A Tool System for Software Development" (1980)
Dr J.J. Gibbons: (now at Sun Labs); "The Design of Interfaces for Cambridge Ring" (1980)
Dr Nigel G.P. Day: "Augmented Transition Networks and Data Structures" (1980)
Dr Peter Robinson: (still here and now Professor of Computer Technology); "Graphic Design with Computers" (1979)
Dr C.A. Linden: "Control of Structure" [missing] (1979)
Dr Stewart R. Lang: "Interactive Graphics Software for Network Modelling" (1975)
Dr M.P. Atkinson: (now a Professor at the University of Glasgow); "Network Modelling" (1974)
Dr H. Lemke: "Interactive Graphics on an Integrated CAD system" (1972)
Dr J.O. Hiles: "Computer Techniques for the Automatic Analysis of Circuits" (1970)
Dr J.H. Tucker: "Fast Memory Systems" (1968)

Some of the dissertations are available from the Computer Laboratory Library as technical reports [Report number indicated in square brackets after title]. One copy of each of the others is kept by the group for reference – a few of these are marked as missing and we are keen to obtain copies in order to complete our collection.