Kent Wenger received his Bachelor of Science degree in computer sciences from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1990 after also studying at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay and Northwestern University (with internships at the Mayo Clinic and IBM and work for Nicolet Instrument Corporation along the way).

After graduating, he did programming for analytical chemistry instrumentation at Extrel FTMS in Madison. In 1996, Kent moved to the UW-Madison computer sciences department as an associate researcher on the DEVise (Data Exploration and Visualization) project. Kent continues to develop the DEVise software for the BioMagResBank (a depository for quantitative data derived from NMR spectroscopic investigations of biological macromolecules). Since 2002, Kent has also worked on the Condor project, and he is now one of the main developers of the DAGMan (Directed Acyclic Graph Manager) workflow execution engine. He is currently working with the Pegasus team at the Information Sciences Institute to more closely integrate DAGMan with the Pegasus (Planning for Execution in Grids) workflow mapping engine.

Kent and his wife live in Madison near the UW campus. When he is not working, Kent can often be found cycling through the Wisconsin countryside.

Last updated 2008-02-28.