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The giCentre is based in the Department of Computer Science at City St George’s, University London. We are an internationaly recognised research group that specialise in developing and applying new techniques for visual data analysis and presentation. This includes visual analytics and dashboards of 'big data' that drives complex decisions across a variety of domains; presentations of personalised data; visual data narratives; and visualisation art. We innovate with interactive visual techniques ranging from cartography and GIS to linked statistical graphics; explore connections with machine learning and intelligent agengs; and pursue state of the art user-centred visualisation design and evaluation methodologies. We work extensively with applied practitioners to create visualisations that solve their problems and make real-life impact. Some of the clients we have worked with include Transport for London, Nokia, eon energy, Advanced Infrastructure Technologies,  MediaCom, Unruly Media, Willis Group, Leicestershire County Council, the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory and the BBC.


Welcome to Our New giCentre Colleagues

November 4, 2025

We are pleased to welcome three new researchers to the giCentre, further strengthening our expertise in data visualisation and human-centred analytics.

Narges Mahyar
Narges’s work spans visualisation, HCI, social computing, and design, focused on enhancing people's ability to tackle complex problems. She develops and evaluates innovative systems that support better decision-making for experts and the public, with recent research centred on broadening civic participation in large-scale decision-making.

Alexis Pister
Alexis specialises in information visualisation, visual analytics, and network visualisation. He designs interactive systems for exploring complex data and has developed methods to visualise historical documents as social networks with an emphasis on traceability and explainability. His current work explores representations for dynamic hypergraphs.

Ali Sarvghad Batn Moghaddam
Ali researches visualisation and interaction techniques that support exploratory data analysis and sense-making. He also applies data visualisation approaches in domains such as healthcare and business to help users uncover insights from complex datasets.

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