Cal Ribbens - Photo courtesy Virginia Tech.
Cal Ribbens has been named interim executive director of the Biocomplexity Institute at Virginia Tech.
Ribbens currently is a professor at the university and head of its computer science department.
His appointment follows the announced departure of the institute’s executive director, Chris Barrett.
“I am excited by the opportunity to work with the researchers at the institute who are at the forefront of developing new technologies and computational platforms to address some of the most complex problems we face as a society,” Ribbens said in a statement.
