Lenwood Heath

Lenwood Heath is a professor in the Department of Computer Science at Virginia Tech. 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.