Werner G. Krebs

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]