Volker Sorge
Professor In Document Analysis And Accessibility at PROGRESSIVE ACCESSIBILITY SOLUTIONS LTD
England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolVolker Sorge is a professor and technology leader with 12+ years of industry experience and a decades-long academic career focused on document analysis and STEM accessibility. He founded and leads companies and projects that build advanced SVG/Canvas, speech and braille outputs for scientific content, and serves as Tech Lead for accessibility at the MathJax Consortium. With over 100 publications across accessibility, document analysis, AI and computational mathematics, he combines deep research credentials (Dr-Ing. in AI) with hands-on engineering—contributing core MathJax refactors, documentation, and Speech Rule Engine integrations. He has advised W3C groups, collaborated with Google on ChromeVox, and now runs both a SaaS accessibility suite and a reactive-accessible SVG initiative, bridging academic insight with product delivery. An uncommon strength is his ability to translate formal math and logic research into production-grade accessibility tooling used by major open-source projects.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Mathematics Computer Science and Philosophy, Mathematics Computer Science and Philosophy at The University of Texas at AustinVordiplom (UG degree) Mathematics Computer Science Philosophy, Vordiplom (UG degree) Mathematics Computer Science Philosophy at The Julius Maximilians University of WürzburgDr-Ing. (Phd) Artificial Intelligence, Dr-Ing. (Phd) Artificial Intelligence at Universität des Saarlandes
English, German, French
Github Skills (26)
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Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
mathjax/MathJax-src
Aug 2016 - Dec 2022
MathJax source code for version 3 and beyond
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 release, 707 reviews, 1256 commits in 6 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Volker's primary contributions to the mathjax/mathjax-src repository involve refactoring code, specifically moving configuration of `ParseOptions` into constructors. Their work also included rewriting error messages in stack items and refactoring for more maintainable code, focusing on low-level components such as `TextNode` and `MmlMo`. This included modifying core code files, indicating involvement in essential aspects of the project's core functionality, highlighting skills related to the project's internal structure and parser design.
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mathjax/MathJax-docs
Aug 2020 - May 2022
MathJax documentation. Beautiful math in all browsers. Beautifully documented.
Role in this project:Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:8 reviews, 27 commits, 10 PRs in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Volker primarily contributed to the project by documenting various aspects of the MathJax library. Their commits included descriptions of new accessibility options, documentation for the bussproofs package, and updates to existing documentation files to correct typos. The user also updated configuration settings for newer Sphinx processors and provided documentation of new packages added to the TeX input.
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