Michael T. Heath is professor and Fulton Watson Copp Chair Emeritus in the department of computer science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His research interests are in scientific computing, particularly numerical linear algebra and optimization, and in parallel computing. He is a SIAM Fellow, ACM Fellow, Associate Fellow of the AIAA, and a member of the European Academy of Sciences. Professor Heath has received numerous teaching awards, including the Taylor L. Booth Education Award from the IEEE Computer Society