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Russ College of Engineering and Technology
Stocker Center
Athens, OH 45701

Lonnie Welch

Lonnie Welch
Charles R. Jr. and Marilyn Stuckey Professor
Stocker Center 354
Biomedical Engineering
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
email address welch@ohio.edu
phone number 740.593.1575

Professor Lonnie R. Welch is the Stuckey Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Ohio University, a member of the Graduate Faculties of the Biomedical Engineering Program and of the Molecular and Cellular Biology Program, director of the Bioinformatics Laboratory at Ohio University, and the founder and Chair of the Great Lakes Bioinformatics Conference (an official conference of the International Society on Computational Biology). His research has been sponsored by the National Human Genome Research Institute, the Ohio Plant Biotechnology Consortium, NASA, the National Science Foundation, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, and the Ohio Board of Regents. He is the principal investigator of the $9M Bioinformatics Program of the Ohio Board of Regents. Dr. Welch is founder and co-chair of the ISMB Special Interest Group on Bioinformatics for Regulatory Genomics (BioRegSIG).

Research Interests: Bioinformatics, Computational regulatory genomics, Machine learning, High performance computing

All Degrees Earned: Ph.D., 1990, M.S.1987, B.S. 1985, Computer and Information Science, the Ohio State University.

Patents:

  • Program Control For Resource Management Architecture and Corresponding Programs, US patent application 09/864821, US patent no. 7,096,248, patent issued 08-2006.
  • System for Monitoring and Reporting Performance of Hosts and Applications and Selectively Configuring Applications in a Resource Managed System, US patent application 09/864830, US patent number 7,051,098, patent issued 5-2006.
  • Resource Allocation Decision Function for Resource Management Architecture and Corresponding Programs, US patent application 09/864825, pending approval.

Awards:

  • 2010 Alumnus of the Year, Claymont High School (for demonstrated lifetime leadership and abilities in chosen field)
  • 2001 Stuckey Professorship, Ohio University (for outstanding accomplishments in research and teaching)
  • 1998 Outstanding Young Faculty Member, University of Texas at Arlington
  • 1998 Aegis Excellence Award, United States Navy (for contributions in dynamic resource management to the Navy's High Performance Distributed Computing (HiPer-D) and AdCon-21 projects)