Dr. Jorg Peters 
is Professor of Computer and Information Sciences at University of Florida.
He is interested in representing, analyzing and computing with geometry.
To this end he has developed new tools for free-form modeling and design
in spline, Bezier, subdivision and implicit representations.
He is heading the TIPS project to enable surgeon-educators to author
VR-based simulations with force feedback.

Peters served in the armed forces 1980-82 and
obtained his Ph.D. in 1990 in Computer Sciences from
the University of Wisconsin, Carl de Boor advisor.
In 1991 and 1992, Peters held positions at the
IBM T. J. Watson Research Center and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
before moving to the computer science department of Purdue University.
In 1994, Peters received a National Young Investigator Award.
He was tenured at Purdue University in 1997 and moved to the University
of Florida in 1998 where he became full professor.
In 2014, Peters received the John Gregory Award, the highest award
in the area of Geometric Design.

Dr. Peters serves as editor-in-chief of the journal GMOD and as
associate editor for the journals CAGD, APNUM, 
ACM ToG, CAMWA, CAD as well as on program committees. 
He chaired the SIAM interest group on geometric design and served 
two terms as elected chair of the Engineering Faculty Council at the University of Florida.
He and his students have built useful tools such as BezierView and TIPS.