User:Falckon/Sheridan Houghten

Sheridan Katharine Houghten is an associate professor working for the Department of Computer Science at Brock University. Her research interests include combinatorics, algorithms and coding theory. She maintains the tables for the best known upper and lower bounds on edit-metric (See Levenshtein distance) and insertion-deletion error correcting codes.

Sheridan was born in England. She obtained her B.S. in Mathematics and Science from Concordia University in 1991. She went on to procure her M.S. in Computer Science in 1993 and her Ph.D. in Computer Science in 1999 from Concordia. She currently teaches as an associate professor at Brock University in St. Catharines. Her personal home page at Brock maintains tables of the best known bounds on certain error correcting codes and a list of her recent publications.