Wolfgang Jentner
Research Scientist at University of Arizona Research & Partnerships
Los Angeles, California, United States
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Top SchoolWolfgang Jentner is a research scientist specializing in visual analytics and human-AI teaming, with 11 years of experience building interactive tools that help domain experts extract knowledge from real-world big data. He has led multidisciplinary research projects, managed technical infrastructure (including on-prem Kubernetes and CI/CD), and shipped widely used open-source tools like CoronaVis that supported crisis teams and medical facilities across Germany. Wolfgang combines academic rigor—a PhD in Visual Analytics—with hands-on engineering from IT consulting to develop custom data management and visualization solutions for industry and research. Comfortable translating complex domain problems into practical, user-centered systems, he excels at bridging AI/ML methods and human expertise to make data more actionable. Based in Los Angeles, he brings a global perspective from EU- and US-based collaborations and a track record of turning research prototypes into tools with real-world impact.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Natural Sciences (Dr. rer. nat.) / PhD, Computer and Information Science / Visual Analytics, Doctor of Natural Sciences (Dr. rer. nat.) / PhD, Computer and Information Science / Visual Analytics at University of KonstanzMaster's Degree, Information Engineering, Master's Degree, Information Engineering at Universität KonstanzMaster's Degree, Computer Science, Master's Degree, Computer Science at California State University-Long Beach
German, French, English, Spanish
Github Skills (200)
docker-desktop10
e-mail10
scheduling10
mailer10
php-library10
letsencrypt10
charts10
email-validation10
plot10
helm10
mailbox10
database10
kubernetes10
storage10
distributed-systems10
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
wjentner/simulated-annealing-scheduler
Jan 2022 - Mar 2025
Contributions:2061 pushes, 1 branch, 1 tag in 3 years 2 months
dbvis-ukon/vd-scatterplot
Sep 2018 - Mar 2020
Contributions:6 PRs, 24 pushes, 5 branches in 1 year 6 months
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