Alan P. Sexton

Lecturer in the School of Computer Science at the University of Birmingham

Member of the Scientific Document Analysis Group

Research

My research interests are on various aspects of scientific and historical document analysis, optical character and mathematical formula recognition, mathematical knowledge management, implementation technologies for web applications, theory and implementation of databases and file index structures.

Some of my papers can be found in my list of publications.

See my research page for more details.

PhD students I have supervised:

• Conglun Yao (graduated 2010)
• Richard Swinbank (graduated 2008)
• Chu Ming Du (graduated 2003)

Teaching

My office hours and general availability is here.

Further information about modules I teach/taught is available:

Current Year:

• 2013–2014

Project Supervision

I now maintain my list of final year and MSc project proposals in XML:

• Final year and MSc project proposals

If you are interested, here is the XML file with its associated DTD file , which specifies the structure of the XML file, and the XSLT file used to do the translations from XML to HTML.

Administration

I am currently Director of Postgraduate Studies for the School.

How to contact me

Alan P. Sexton
University of Birmingham
School of Computer Science
Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TT
Office: Second floor, room 239
Tel: +44 121 414 3703
Fax: +44 121 414 4281
Email: A.P.Sexton@cs.bham.ac.uk