Eric Rees, Ph.D.

Biography

Dr. Eric Rees is an instructor of computer science at Texas Tech University. His research focuses on bioinformatics, parallelization & distributed Systems, high performance computing, computational language theory/design, and plagiarism detection. Dr. Rees was a member of the President’s Leadership Institute at Texas Tech in 2019-2020 and was awarded the Rising Star Award by the Texas Public Sector CIO Academy in 2019.  In 2020, Dr. Rees became the Chief Technology Officer at MicroGenDX, a position that blends his academic knowledge, industrial experiences, and leadership skills and offers an engaging platform to drive cutting-edge technology in the field of Bioinformatics.

Research Interests

• Bioinformatics: Metagenomic algorithm development and optimization
• Scheduling optimization in High Performance Computing environments
• Computational Language Theory/Design
• Plagiarism Detection algorithms and detection of Generative AI usage

Personal Information

Education

• Ph.D., Computer Science, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas, 2005-2011
• B.Sc., Computer Science, Angelo State University, San Angelo, Texas, 2001-2005