Dr Helen Miles
BSc, PhD, SFHEA

Senior Lecturer

Interim Director of Research Excellence & Impact

Contact Details

Email: hem23@aber.ac.uk
ORCID: 0000-0003-4063-6479
Office:C37 Llandinam Building
Phone: +44 (0) 1970 628680
Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user=nfanih0AAAAJ
Personal Website: https://lionspaws.github.io
Research Portal Profile (https://research.aber.ac.uk/en/persons/7b18b132-9dc9-4f58-83cb-271020a0418f)
Personal Pronouns: she/her

Helen's research is in the area of visual computing. She has a BSc (2010) and PhD (2014) in Computer Science from Bangor University. She moved to Aberystwyth in 2014 to work as PDRA, and in 2015 became a lecturer for the department. From 2019-23 Helen led the £2.4m ESF Advanced Media Production project to develop a postgraduate-level training programme, supporting Wales’ creative industries sector by training professionals and graduates to exploit new technologies in media production. The project was shortlisted for the 2021 Times Higher Education Awards 'Knowledge Exchange/Transfer Initiative of the Year'.

Since 2016, Helen has been part of Aberystwyth University’s ExoMars team, simulating images from the perspective of the PanCam instrument led by UCL/MSSL and developing processes to work with the images taken by PanCam. Her current work is centred around investigating aspects of visual perception within the PanCam image processing chain, including image compression and colour reproduction. Most recently, Helen has taken the role of Operations Software Lead for the new Enfys instrument.

Computer Science Employability Coordinator (2016-18)
Computer Science Head of Admissions, Marketing and Recruitment (2017+)

Helen is a member of the BCS, and is on the committee for BCS Mid Wales. From 2017-2020, Helen was chair of the BCSWomen Lovelace Colloquium, an annual conference for undergraduate women in computing.

Module Coordinator

Lecturer

Computer graphics
Virtual environments and virtual reality
Visual perception
Data visualisation
Virtual reconstruction
Human-Computer Interaction

Reflections on Imagination of Future and AI. / Cerkez, Toni; Finnis, James; Kurki, Milja et al.
Knowledge and Expertise in International Politics: A Handbook. Oxford University Press, 2026. p. 981-997.

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

Designing a Virtual Toolkit for Analysing Planetary Science Data in Virtual Reality. / Miles, Helen; Jones, Andra.
In: IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, Vol. 31, No. 8, 01.08.2025, p. 4283-4296.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

PCOT: An open-source toolkit for multispectral image processing. / Finnis, James (Lead Author); Miles, Helen; Ladegaard, Ariel et al.
In: Geoscience Data Journal, Vol. 12, No. 1, e283, 31.01.2025.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

PanCam Operations Toolkit: PCOT. Finnis, James (Author); Miles, Helen (Author); Gunn, Matt (Author) et al.. 2024. Zenodo.

Research output: Non-textual form › Software

AUPE: An Emulator for the ExoMars PanCam Instrument. / Ladegaard, Ariel; Gunn, Matt; Miles, Helen et al.
Computer Graphics and Visual Computing (CGVC). ed. / D. Hunter; P. Vangorp. Eurographics, 2023.

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference Proceeding (ISBN)

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