Dr. Mark-Jan has been a Lecturer in Computer Science at the University of St Andrews since November 2006. His research interests pertain to mathematical models of the syntax of natural languages, as well as of programming languages. He is also interested in computer processing of Ancient Egyptian, with an emphasis on the hieroglyphic writing system. He will be chairing the FSMNLP 2013 conference in St Andrews. He currently supervises one PhD student Vinodh Rajan. For more information visit his full website.