Wes Turner
Professor Of Practice And Director Of The Rensselaer Center For Open Source at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Town of Clifton Park, New York, United States
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Top SchoolWes Turner is a seasoned software engineer and academic leader with over 11 years of focused experience guiding open source education and research at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, where he directs the Rensselaer Center for Open Source and teaches core CS courses. His background spans computational linear algebra (PhD) and applied visualization and medical imaging from roles at Kitware and GE Global Research, bridging rigorous numerical methods with practical engineering. He has led community-building and code-quality initiatives in healthcare open source (OSEHRA) and supervised student-driven, industry-connected projects that produce production-ready software. Known for mentoring student leaders and cultivating corporate partnerships, he combines hands-on technical depth with program-level strategy to turn academic projects into real-world impact. An early career focus on signal processing and iterative solvers gives him uncommon cross-domain fluency that informs both pedagogy and research.
11 years of coding experience
36 years of employment as a software developer
MS, Computer Science, MS, Computer Science at Penn State UniversityPhD, Computation Linear Algebra, PhD, Computation Linear Algebra at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
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Github Skills (2)
tdd6
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Github contributions (1)
simquest/opensurgsim
Dec 2014 - Sep 2016
Contributions:225 commits in 1 year 9 months
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