Werner G. Krebs | |
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Born | c. 1977 |
Nationality | American |
Education | Ph.D. Yale University S.B./S.M. University of Chicago |
Employer(s) | Acculation, Inc. |
Known for | Database of Molecular Motions, GNU Queue |
Awards | Salzburg Global Fellow, Founder Institute Graduate, IBM Global Entrepreneur |
Scientific career | |
Institutions |
San Diego Supercomputer Center University of California, San Diego Yale University University of Chicago [1] |
Thesis | Database of Macromolecular Motions |
Doctoral advisor | Mark Gerstein [2] |
Other academic advisors |
James Heckman Keith Moffat [3] Philip Bourne [4] |
Website | https://www.acculation.com/werner-g-krebs-ph-d-speaker- |
Werner G. Krebs (born c. 1977) is an American [5] data scientist. He is currently CEO of data science and artificial intelligence startup Acculation, Inc. [6] and has previously held positions at what are now Virtu Financial, Bank of America, and the San Diego Supercomputer Center. [1] [7] [8]
He was initially hired out of high school by the Nobel Laureate James Heckman. [1] [9] [10] A graduate of the University of Chicago and University of Chicago Laboratory Schools, he is a Salzburg Global Fellow, Founder Institute Graduate, and IBM Global Entrepreneur. [1] [6] [11] He resides in Los Angeles. [7] [12]
Krebs and his work have been discussed in news articles in journals, [13] [14] newspapers, [15] [16] books, [17] [18] encyclopedias, [19] official government publications, [1] [20] [21] and internationally in multiple languages [22] over a period spanning more than one decade. [1] [13] [21]
Amongst other things, he is noted for the Database of Molecular Motions which was developed with Mark Gerstein while a PhD Candidate at Yale University. [13] [14] [19] He has also been noted [23] as the original author of GNU Queue, [22] [24] a 2000s-era load balancing and parallel processing system with a simplified in-line interface. [22] [25] Although GNU Queue was decommissioned in 2015 in favor of GNU Parallel, [26] it was originally described in 1998 as having some functionality similar to LSF, which at the time was closed source commercial software. [27] A simplified version of LSF was later open sourced circa 2007, eventually named OpenLava and under a GPL license compatible with GNU Queue. Thus, both GNU Parallel and OpenLava may be considered related GPL’d projects, although the latter is not formally a GNU project. [28] He was an academic, on the faculty at UCSD. [4] [1] [10]