Lenwood Heath
Lenwood Heath is a professor in the Department of Computer Science at Virginia Tech and core faculty at the Sanghani Center. His original areas of expertise and research interest were theoretical computer science, algorithms, and graph theory. In 2000, he began working with biologists on gene expression and genomic data. Most recently, he is working with metagenomic data with collaborators in environmental engineering. His current research interests include computational biology and bioinformatics, especially bacterial and viral genomics, complex networks, and computational epidemiology.
He received a B.S. in mathematics from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; an M.S. in mathematics from the University of Chicago; and a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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Reza Mazloom, Lenwood Heath
In Proceedings of the 55th Computational Biology and Health Informatics, (pp 1-7), 08/2022
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Lenwood Heath
In Journal of Computational Biology, 28 11: , 11/2021
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Lenwood Heath, Boris A. Vinatzner
In Nucleic Acids Research, 48 W1: W529–W537, 07/2020
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Lenwood Heath's Timeline
Year: 1985
Instructor of Applied Mathematics, Theoretical Computer Science Group, Department of Mathematics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Year: 1987
Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Virginia Tech
Year: 1993
Associate Professor of Computer Science, Virginia Tech
Year: 2003
Professor of Computer Science, Virginia Tech
Year: 2003
Faculty of the Genetics, Bioinformatics, and Computational Biology PhD program, Virginia Tech
Year: 2009
General Co-Chair, 17th International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems, Association for Computing Machinery
Year: 2014
Faculty of Health Sciences, Virginia Tech