Michael Heath

Michael Heath holds the Fulton Watson Copp Chair in Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he is a professor of Computer Science and a leading authority on scientific computing and parallel computing. Heath earned his undergraduate degree from the University of Kentucky before completing his Ph.D. in computer science at Stanford University, where his fellowship began in 1975. His research and textbooks—including Scientific Computing: An Introductory Survey—have made him one of the most influential educators in numerical methods and high-performance computing. He has also contributed to the development of software libraries for dense and sparse linear algebra used in scientific simulation worldwide.