Jeffrey Varner
Associate Director, Smith School Of Chemical And Biomolecular Engineering
City of Ithaca, New York, United States
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Top SchoolJeffrey Varner is an experienced chemical engineering academic and quantitative scientist with over a decade of leadership at Cornell, where he serves as Associate Director and continues faculty research and teaching. He combines deep computational and data-analysis expertise—honed as a professor, data analysis instructor, and postdoc at ETH Zürich—with practical industry experience from Genencor and as Chief Quantitative Scientist at Paliquant, building mathematical models and ML tools for complex, uncertain systems. His roles directing graduate and professional master’s programs speak to a talent for translating technical rigor into scalable educational and operational programs. Known for troubleshooting stubborn interdisciplinary problems, he brings a rare blend of hands-on modeling, pedagogy, and market-focused analytics rooted in chemical engineering fundamentals.
11 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Chemical Engineering, PhD, Chemical Engineering at Purdue UniversityPostdoctoral Researcher, Postdoctoral Researcher at ETH Zürich
Github Skills (21)
chemical-engineering8
visualization7
julia7
python6
visualizations5
atom-plugin3
data-analysis3
programming-language3
spell3
spellchecker2
algorithm2
science2
consensus1
graph-analysis1
network-analysis1
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
varnerlab/CHEME-1800-4800-Course-Repository-S23
Dec 2022 - Mar 2023
Repository for the CHEME-1800-4800 computing course at Cornell University
Contributions:208 commits, 283 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
varnerlab/varnerlab.github.io
Mar 2018 - Jun 2026
Contributions:24 pushes, 1 branch in 8 years 5 months
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