Lonnie R. Welch, Stuckey Professor
Professor Lonnie R. Welch received a Ph.D. in Computer and Information Science from the Ohio State University. Currently, he is the Stuckey Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Ohio University, and is a member of the Graduate Faculties of the Biomedical Engineering Program and of the Molecular and Cellular Biology Program. Dr. Welch performs research in the areas of bioinformatics and high performance computing. His research has been sponsored by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, the Navy, NASA, the National Science Foundation, the Army, and the Ohio Board of Regents. Dr. Welch has more than 20 years of research experience in the area of high performance computing. In his graduate work at Ohio State University, he developed high performance 3-D graphics rendering algorithms, and invented a parallel virtual machine for object-oriented software. For 15 years, his research focused on middleware and optimization algorithms for high performance computing; this work produced three successive generations of adaptive resource management middleware for high performance real-time systems, and resulted in two patents and more than 150 publications. Currently, Professor Welch directs the Bioinformatics Laboratory at Ohio University, where he performs research in the area of computational regulatory and functional genomics. Dr. Welch is founder and Co-Editor-in-Chief of The International Journal of Computational Biosciences, a member of the editorial boards of The International Journal of Computational Science, and The Journal of Scalable Computing: Practice and Experience. He is the founder and Chair of The Ohio Bioinformatics Consortium and The Ohio Collaborative Conference on Bioinformatics. He is also the Principal Investigator of the $9M Bioinformatics Program which is funded by the Ohio Board of Regents and eleven academic institutions from Ohio. Dr. Welch has served on the organizing committees of the Bioinformatics Open Source Conference, the International Symposium on Bioinformatics Research and Applications, and the IEEE International Symposium on Bioinformatics and Bioengineering.
Curriculum Vitae (abridged)
Contact Information
322A Stocker Center
School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Ohio University
Athens, OH 45701-2979
740-593-1575 (fax: -0007)
