SPORTSVIZ - Key Persons
Iwan has a wide experience of physical science, biomechanics and the application of research methods to three dimensional object tracking, performance analysis and the physics of human movement. He has worked closely with the computer scientists at Swansea and Cardiff on innovative solutions for sports analysis (data visualization, computer vision, data mining) and has worked up commercial links with many sports governing bodies and other partners.
He has advised on the creation of many SportsViz apps and software tools involving for example, ball spin visualization, performance analysis and coaching apps.
Job Titles:
- Commercial Manager
- Director
Director and commercial manager of SportsViz. Adrian is an experienced programme and project manager, having worked as the commercial manager for the Centre of Excellence in Computing and Software Technologies at Swansea University and the Pan-Wales Research Institute of Visual Computing funded by the Welsh Government.
He has a wealth of practical commercial experience, having owned and run several successful businesses and has strong sporting credentials, having been a Wales and Great Britain team member for Olympic rifle shooting and an international level coach.
Software Engineer at SportsViz Ltd. Matthew graduated with a BSc in Computer Science with First Class Honours from Swansea University in 2010. He then stayed on at the University for the next 3 years as a Research Assistant on the Sports Video Visualization Project. During this time he was involved in a number of high quality Research publications including a full-length paper as lead author in the 2011 IEEE Vis conference; the highest impact conference for advances in visualization.
At the conclusion of the Sports Video Visualization project, Matthew joined the resultant spinout company SportsViz Ltd. as a Software Engineer and has achieved an MPhil in Computer Science.
Job Titles:
- Graphic Designer
- Web Developer
Bringing almost 25 years experience of working within the graphic design and website design/development industries across to SportsViz, Neil has worked on numerous design and website related projects for local and national organisations.
Before joining the SportsViz team, Neil was an approved service supplier to Swansea University handling design requirements for the Research Institute of Visual Computing, VIBE (data management), and Homeland Security/Resilience projects.
Prof. David Marshall has been working in the field of computer vision since 1986. David obtained a B.Sc. degree in mathematics from University College, Cardiff in 1986 and then undertook a Ph.D. in three dimensional inspection of manufactured objects at Cardiff University, working in collaboration with the Sowerby Research Centre, British Aerospace.
In 1989 he joined Cardiff University as lecturer and is now Professor of Computer Vision in the School of Computer Science and Informatics.