Craig Zirbel
Professor Emeritus at Bowling Green State University
Oakland, California, United States
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Top SchoolCraig Zirbel is a Professor Emeritus and applied mathematician with over three decades in academia and a recent relocation to the Bay Area, focused now on renewable energy and electrification projects. He combines deep expertise in mathematical modeling, algorithm design, data science, databases, and web servers with hands-on software development—co-developing the RNA 3D Hub and maintaining a substantial bioinformatics codebase. As principal investigator he managed a $1.5M NIH project, secured a decade-plus of R01 funding, and supervised numerous PhD dissertations and research teams. He led university-wide initiatives including designing Ohio’s first Data Science PhD program and practical campus electrification efforts such as EV charger deployment. Comfortable bridging research and operations, he builds automated data pipelines (weekly RNA structure processing) and writes grant proposals, budgets, and hires teams. Now based in Oakland, he is seeking applied roles in electrification, energy storage, grid operations, or related engineering teams where his modeling-to-deployment experience can accelerate impact.
12 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
BA, Mathematics and Physics, BA, Mathematics and Physics at Illinois Wesleyan UniversityPh.D., Applied and Computational Mathematics, Ph.D., Applied and Computational Mathematics at Princeton University
Github Skills (27)
3d-structure10
searching10
latexmk10
bioinformatics10
python9
docker9
3d9
tex9
latex9
xelatex9
motif9
genomics8
extraction8
java8
mathematical7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
BGSU-RNA/JAR3D
Oct 2013 - Sep 2022
Java-based Alignment of RNA using 3D structure
Contributions:3 releases, 106 commits, 1 PR in 9 years
java3d-structurealignmentrna
clzirbel/Random_Processes
Jan 2015 - Jan 2017
Contributions:20 commits, 12 pushes in 2 years
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