Complex sentence: Heath earned his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Stanford University in 1978; his Ph.D. dissertation was entitled "Numerical Algorithms for Nonlinearly Constrained Optimization" and was completed under the direction of Gene Golub.
Split into simpler sentences: Heath earned his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Stanford University in 1978. His Ph.D. dissertation was entitled "Numerical Algorithms for Nonlinearly Constrained Optimization" and was completed under the direction of Gene Golub.