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Dr. Mark Nederhof is a Senior Lecturer at the School of Computer Science, University of St Andrews. His research focuses on computational linguistics, formal language theory, and ancient writing systems, particularly Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs and hieratic texts. He has contributed to Unicode standards for hieroglyphic encoding and developed tools like the NewGardiner font and HieroJax for digital text representation.
Education: PhD in Theoretical Computer Science from Radboud University (1994), MSc in Computer Science from Radboud University (1990).
Research Interests:
- Formal grammars and parsing algorithms
- Unicode encoding for ancient scripts
- Computational analysis of hieroglyphic texts
- Machine translation evaluation
Publications: 40+ peer-reviewed articles focusing on computational linguistics, hieroglyphic text processing, and algorithm optimization.
Advising: Supervises PhD student Yunzhe Yuan. Involved in grants such as the Leverhulme Trust-funded 'Alignment of Textual Resources' project.
Contributions: Open-source tools like NewGardiner for hieroglyphic fonts and HieroJax for web-based hieroglyphic display.
