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Alejandro Bia Platas Department of Statistics, Mathematics and Computer Science |
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BRIEF CV
Alejandro Bia is a lecturer at the Department of Statistics, Mathematics and Computer Science and a researcher at the Institute for Mathematics, Data Science and Artificial Intelligence, both at the Miguel Hernández University (Elche, Spain). He was Vice Dean of Business Statistics at UMH (2019-2023).
He holds a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Alicante, a MSc and a BS in Computer Science from ORT University, a Diploma in Computing and Information Systems from Oxford University, and a diploma of Expert in Technological Innovation in Education from the Miguel Hernández University.
Apart from UMH, he has also lectured for the Cultural Heritage Digitization Course at FUNED (2013-2020), 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 (1990-2004).
He is a frequent instructor of XML-TEI workshops and seminars in, Austria, Czech Republic, Germany, India, Italy, Mexico, Spain, Switzerland, United Kingdom and Uruguay.
His lecture topics are: software engineering, project management, computer crime, computer forensics, information security, text markup using XML and TEI, web application design, digital libraries, concurrent programming, operating systems, computer architecture, computer networks and English for computer sciences. He was a member of the Research Network in Teaching Methodologies with ICTs of the University of Alicante (2013-2020).
He has participated in several publicly funded research projects: Impact of the Human Factor in Software Modeling (AICO 2020), CHispa (program of the Agence Nationale de la Recherche de France and program ECOS of the Embassy of France in Uruguay – 2016-2017), the TRACEsofTools project: software tools for contrastive text analysis in parallel bilingual corpus (principal investigator, 2013-2016), the Digital Humanities Workbench (principal investigator, DHW) project (2012-2013), the Atenea project (University of Málaga, 2009-2012), the Bibliotheca Europa project (University of Alicante, 2006-2008), Digital Library of the National Library of Spain (as consultant, 2005) and in the METAe: Metadata Engine project (EU funded, 2000-2003).
His current research interests are: systemic analysis of software development processes and optimization in engineering project management. Previously, he worked in the application of software engineering methods and techniques to digital libraries (his PhD Thesis topic), automatic alignment of parallel texts, text mining, computational stylometry, visualization methods applied to textual corpora, improvement of the design of document structures, multilingual markup languages, digitisation automation by computer means, digital preservation, and digitisation metrics and cost estimates. He also worked on neural networks training and developed the ALOPEX-B optimization method.
From 1999 to 2004, he has been Head of Research and Development of the Miguel de Cervantes Digital Library at the University of Alicante, the biggest digital library of Spanish literary works and one of the first projects to use TEI in XML format. 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).
He is a long-time member of the DH community (since 1999) and has been elected member of the TEI Council for three periods (2002-2004, 2004-2006 and 2017-2018) and of the Executive Committee of the former Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing, now EADH, for two periods (2004-2008 and 2008-2011). Until recently (2015-2019), he has been the secretary of the HDH association (Hispanic Digital Humanities) and is currently a member of the Internet Society (Spanish chapter).