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Prof Gordon Clapworthy, Professor of Computer Graphics

Professor Gordon Clapworthy

When he joined the University in 2003, Professor Clapworthy became the first Director of the Institute for Research in Applicable Computing (IRAC). The Institute concentrates mainly on research that is applicable to real-world problems and recent projects have earned it more than €3m.

Professor Clapworthy has had a wide-ranging career in research, covering projects in transonic aerodynamics, work with the Russian Academy of Sciences on space robots, investigations in clinical biomechanics with European partners in Belgium and Italy, and long-established work in computer graphics, particularly medical visualisation.

He also spent a year at Electronic Arts in which he wrote software for use in TV adverts and title sequences. In the last few years, he has been heavily involved in the European Commission initiative on the Virtual Physiological Human (VPH). This is a long term programme to develop an integrated model of the workings of the human body.

‘The VPH will radically change the way in which healthcare is provided. It’s satisfying to be working on a project that you know has relevance to real people throughout Europe and may influence their lives for the better,’ he says.

Teaching Areas

  • Computer graphics
  • Computer animation

Research and Publications

Research Interests
  • Computer graphics, visualisation and computer animation
  • Biomechanics and human figure modelling
  • Robot teleoperation
  • Virtual reality
  • Fundamental graphics algorithms
Research Projects (funded projects since 1996)
  • Aneurist, European Commission, IST, 2006-2009
  • LHDL, European Commission, IST, 2006-2009
  • STEP, European Commission, IST, 2006-2007
  • Multisense, European Commission, IST, 2002-2005
  • Multimod, European Commission, IST, 2001-2004
  • MuVoRe, European Commission, INCO, 2003
  • BioNet, European Commission, IST, 2001-2002
  • VAKHUM, European Commission, IST, 2000-2002
  • ALIS 2, British Council, 2002-3
  • ALIS, British Council, 2000-2002
  • IAEVA-II, European Commission, IST, 1998-2000
  • MediMedia, European Commission, IST, 1998-2000
  • Kneeflex, European Commission, Marie Curie, 1997-1999
  • IAEVA, European Commission, IST, 1996-1997
  • Space Robots, INTAS, 1996-1997

Internal Activities

  • Head, Centre for Computer Graphics & Visualisation

External Activities

External Examiner (appointments since 2001)
  • PhD, London South Bank University, 2005
  • PhD, University of Surrey, 2004
  • PhD, City University (Hong Kong), 2004
  • PhD, University of Hull, 2004
  • PhD, University of Dundee, 2003
  • PhD, University of West Australia (Australia), 2003
  • PhD, Middlesex University, 2002
  • PhD, Limburg Transnational University (Belgium), 2001
  • MEng, Nanyang University of Technology (Singapore), 2001
  • MSc, Computer Games, University of Hull, 2002-4
  • MSc, Computer Graphics &Virtual Environments, University of Hull, 2001-4
  • BA, Humanities Computing, University of Hertfordshire, 2002-5
Membership
  • Member : ACM, ACM SIGGRAPH, Eurographics, UK VR-SIG
Conference Chair
  • Towards the Virtual Physiological Human, Brussels, Nov 2006
  • IEEE International Conference on Information Visualisation, IV-05, London, 2005
  • Biomechanics in the Decade of the Bone & Joint, Brussels, June 2002
Chair of Organising Committee
  • MediViz **, London, annually, July 1997-2007

Membership of International Committee

  • International Advisory Board, Mechanical Virtual Human Project – Chinese NSF project based in Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 2005-9
  • WG Digital Patient, European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics, 2006-
  • “Forward Look on European Computational Science” Panel, European Science Foundation, 2007
Project Reviewer
  • European Commission, EPSRC, NERC, INTAS
  • Ministry of Science & Technology, Republic of Slovenia
Invited Presentations
  • École Normale Supérieure (Paris)
  • Moscow State University
  • Chinese Academy of Sciences (Beijing)
  • State Key Lab of Zhejiang University (China)
  • Technical University of Budapest
  • Slovak Technical University
  • University of Maribor (Slovenia)
  • Hong Kong Polytechnic
  • City University Hong Kong
  • Virtual Orthopaedic European University
  • numerous UK universities

Contact Details

Prof Gordon J Clapworthy
T: +44(0)1582 743496

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