Michael Heath (computer scientist)

Michael Heath (computer scientist)

Professor Michael T. Heath (b. December 11, 1946) is a computer scientist who specializes in scientific computing. He is the director of the Center for the Simulation of Advanced Rockets,[1] a Department of Energy-sponsored computing center and the Computational Science and Engineering Program[2] at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. From 2007 to 2009, Heath served as the Interim Head of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Department of Computer Science.[3]

Heath currently holds the Fulton Watson Copp Chair in Computer Science at the University of Illinois. Heath was inducted as a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery in 2000,[4] and a Fellow of Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics in 2010.[5] He also received the 2009 Taylor L. Booth Education Award from IEEE.[6]

Heath is the author of Scientific Computing: An Introductory Survey, an introductory text on numerical analysis.[7][6]

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Education

Michael Heath earned his B.A. in Mathematics from the University of Kentucky in 1968. In 1974, Heath earned his M.S. in Mathematics from the University of Tennessee. Heath earned his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Stanford University in 1978. His Ph.D. dissertation was entitled Numerical Algorithms for Nonlinearly Constrained Optimization[8] and was completed under the direction of Gene Golub.

Early work

Prior to his work with the University of Illinois, Michael Heath spent a number of years at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Heath joined Oak Ridge in 1968 as a Scientific Applications Programmer, and he became a Eugene P. Wigner Postdoctoral Fellow in 1978.

Michael Heath served as an Adjunct Professor of Computer Science at the University of Tennessee from 1988 to 1991. In 1991, Heath joined the University of Illinois, where he soon became a Senior Research Scientist with the National Center for Supercomputing Applications.[9]

References

  1. ^ Center for the Simulation of Advanced Rockets, University of Illinois
  2. ^ Computational Science and Engineering Program, University of Illinois
  3. ^ Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois
  4. ^ ACM Fellows
  5. ^ Fellows, SIAM
  6. ^ a b 2009 Awards, IEEE computer society
  7. ^ Heath, Michael T (2002). Scientific Computing: An Introductory Survey. McGraw-Hill. ISBN 0-07-239910-4. http://www.cse.uiuc.edu/heath/scicomp/. 
  8. ^ "Numerical Algorithms for Nonlinearly Constrained Optimization". Stanford University (Ph.D. dissertation). 1978. http://oai.dtic.mil/oai/oai?verb=getRecord&metadataPrefix=html&identifier=ADA057962. 
  9. ^ Biographical Data, University of Illinois College of Engineering

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