Dr. Michael T. Heath is
Professor and Fulton Watson Copp Chair in the
Department of Computer Science
at the University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign, where he is also Director of both
Computational Science and Engineering
and the Center for Simulation of
Advanced Rockets. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from
Stanford University. His research interests are in numerical
analysis, parallel computing, and computational simulation.
In 2000, he was named an
ACM Fellow by the Association for
Computing Machinery.
Michael M. Wolf is
one of Professor Heath's Ph.D. students in the
Department of Computer Science
at the University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign.
His research interests are in scientific computing, combinatorial algorithms, and
parallel computing.
He is currently serving as president of the UIUC student SIAM chapter.