About Craig Finch

I am an engineer who is interested in creating new things by combining theory, simulation, and experiments. I hold Bachelor's and Master's degrees in electrical engineering and a PhD in Modeling and Simulation from the University of Central Florida. I have used free/open source software extensively. Some of my favorite open-source tools include GNU/Linux, Python, Sage, SciPy/NumPy, matplotlib, Asymptote, and LaTeX. I have had the opportunity to work on many diverse projects such as designing MEMs signal processing devices, building a whispering gallery mode optical biosensor, and using computational fluid dynamics to design microfluidic bioreactors. I have written simulation codes to model protein adsorption, action potentials of neurons, bacterial adhesion, and the electromagnetic effects of packaging on radio-frequency devices.

The free/open-source movement has produced hundreds of amazing software tools, but many are not well documented or publicized. I enjoy the challenge of finding and learning new tools and then making them more accessible to a broader audience. In my first book, "Sage Beginner's Guide," I introduced students, engineers and scientists to an amazing free mathematical software system that was only well known among mathematicians. I look forward to the opportunity to introduce another software tool in my next book.