The aim of this research group is to develop suitable solutions for dealing with big data. It focuses on techniques, tools and platforms that can assist in acquiring, managing, processing and visualizing large amount of data in different scientific, engineering, environmental and social domains. The group is involved in developing and applying novel computational and visualization techniques that can be applied on huge and complex data sets arising from various domains. The data of interest is social media data, sensors data, genes and proteins data, agriculture and geographical data. Key research areas of the group are: