A Little About the Director of Computer Science

Eric Stahlberg is director of computational science for Wittenberg University in Springfield, Ohio. As a Computational Scientist in Residence, he brings nearly 20 years of experience in software applications development in high-performance and enterprise data computing environments to Wittenberg’s pioneering computational science program. In this role, Dr. Stahlberg provides oversight to the leading program, developed opportunities for undergraduate internships in computational science, as well as taught courses in computational modeling and bioinformatics. His efforts have helped the University to receive funding for scholarships as well as pilot innovative solutions to inspire students to pursue careers in STEM with an emphasis in health information and image processing technology.

Dr. Stahlberg’s career is highlighted with software development experience on scientific applications in chemistry for Cray Research, Inc. and Oxford Molecular Group, with visualization for medical applications for Vital Images, Inc., and information delivery systems and search engines for Chemical Abstracts Service. As an instructor, Dr. Stahlberg has been able to bring industry insight into the classroom for courses including system analysis and design, algorithm analysis, database systems, high-performance and parallel computing, computational models and methods, optimization and bioinformatics.

While at the Ohio Supercomputer Center, Dr. Stahlberg has pioneered several key initiatives at OSC including establishing the foundation for the center’s role in bioinformatics statewide, the use of web-portals for high-performance computing, the formation of Platform Lab, a shared software test and development facility unique to Ohio, and the development of the Ohio BioRepository software system.

Dr. Stahlberg holds a Ph.D. in computational chemistry from the Ohio State University and a Bachelor of Arts degree from Wartburg College (Waverly, Iowa) with majors in chemistry, mathematics and computer science. He maintains active community involvement serving as president of OpenFPGA, a non-profit international organization advancing industry needs and standards for the use of reconfigurable computing solutions in software applications, a co-founder of OCCBIO, Ohio’s collaborative conference on bioinformatics, serves as a technical advisor to a regional workforce development initiative in health information and image processing and participates in the Industrial Fluid Properties Simulation Collective.