Peter Schröder | |
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Alma mater | Princeton University |
Known for | Discrete differential geometry |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Computer Science |
Institutions | California Institute of Technology |
Doctoral advisor | Pat Hanrahan |
Peter Schröder is a German American computer scientist and a professor of computer science at California Institute of Technology. Schröder is known for his contributions to discrete differential geometry and digital geometry processing. He is also a world expert in the area of wavelet based methods for computer graphics. In 2015, Schröder was elected as a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery for "contributions to computer graphics and geometry processing.".
Schröder received an M.S. from MIT's Media Lab in 1990, and a Ph.D. in computer science from Princeton University in 1992 under the supervision of Pat Hanrahan. In 1994, he joined the faculty of Caltech.
Schröder is the recipient of an NSF CAREER award, a Sloan Fellowship, a Packard Fellowship, and in 2015 was elected as a fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery. He is also the recipient of the ACM SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics Achievement Award in 2003.