Alejandro Bia

Alejandro Bia has a PhD in Computer Science. He studied at ORT University, Oxford University, and at the University of Alicante.

Currently he is a full time lecturer at the Miguel Hernández University, within the Department of Statistics, Mathematics and Computer Science and a researcher at the Operations Research Center (CIO). He has lectured for the Cultural Heritage Digitization Course at FUNED (2013-2015), the Master in Digital Humanities (2005-2011), and the Master in Web Technology (2005-2007), at the University of Castilla La Mancha, for the Department of Languages and Information Systems (2002-2004) and the Department of Fundamentals of Economic Analysis (2002) of the University of Alicante, and at ORT University (1990-1996).

His lecture topics are: text markup using XML and TEI, software engineering, project management, computer forensics, information security, web application design, concurrent programming, operating systems, computer architecture, computer networks and English for computer sciences.

At present, he is in charge of the TRACEsofTools project (software tools for contrastive text analysis in parallel bilingual corpus), continues developing the Digital Humanities Workbench (DHW) project, and participates in the Atenea project of the University of Málaga. In 2006-2008 has cooperated with the Bibliotheca Europa project of the University of Alicante. In 2005, he has done consultancy work for the National Library of Spain. From 1999 to 2004, he has been Head of Research and Development of the Miguel de Cervantes Digital Library at the University of Alicante. Previously, he has worked as Special-Projects Manager at NetGate (1996), and as Documentation Editor of the GeneXus project at ARTech (Advanced Research and Technology) (1991-1994).

His current research interests are text alignment, text-mining, stylometry and visualization methods applied to text corpora. Previously, he worked on the application of software engineering methods and techniques to digital libraries and to enhance document structure design, multilingual markup languages, digitisation automation by computer means, digital preservation, digitisation metrics and cost estimates. He also worked on neural networks training and developed the ALOPEX-B optimization method.

He has been a member of: AIPO (Association for Human Computer Interaction), the TEI Council (2002-2004 and 2004-2006) and the Executive Committee of the ALLC (2004-2008 and 2008-2011).