Michael Heath (computer scientist)
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Professor Michael T. Heath (b. 1946 December 11) is a computer scientist who specializes in scientific computing. He currently holds the Fulton Watson Copp Chair in Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is also the director of the Center for the Simulation of Advanced Rockets, a Department of Energy-sponsored computing center and the Computational Science and Engineering Program at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Professor Heath received his Bachelors in Mathematics from the University of Kentucky, his Masters in Mathematics from the University of Tennessee, and his Doctorate in Computer Science from Stanford University. His PhD dissertation was entitled Numerical Algorithms for Nonlinearly Constrained Optimization and was completed under the direction of Gene Golub. Prior to his current career as a professor he worked at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee, and the National Center for Supercomputing Applications.
In 2000 he was inducted as a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery.
Heath is the author of Scientific Computing: An Introductory Survey, a popular introductory text on numerical analysis.
