Rate My Professor Michael Wybrow

Since mid-2014, Wybrow has been a Lecturer (teaching and research) in the Faculty of Information Technology, designing and leading the first-year course ENG1003 on IT literacy, app programming, and software engineering, delivered to over 1,300 students annually across campuses. From 2019 to 2024, he directed Work Integrated Learning, expanding industry placements, capstone projects, and student teams. Appointed Associate Dean (Engagement and Impact) in mid-2025, he oversees research and education initiatives. Wybrow’s research centers on interactive visualisation for complex data and user-guided AI systems, including constraint-based diagram layout, connector routing, and applications in biological networks, energy sector optimisation, and healthcare monitoring. Key publications include 'Hola: Human-like orthogonal network layout' (IEEE TVCG, 2015; InfoVis best paper award), 'Euler diagrams drawn with ellipses area-proportionally (Edeap)' (BMC Bioinformatics, 2021), and 'Scalability of Network Visualisation from a Cognitive Load Perspective' (IEEE TVCG, 2021). His software, such as Adaptagrams and Dunnart, is widely adopted in academia and industry. He has secured over $10 million in grants and funding, served on the IEEE VIS program committee, hosted the conference in Melbourne in 2023, and attended seven Schloss Dagstuhl workshops. Wybrow actively supervises PhD students and reviews for top journals and conferences.