Peter Schröder is an American

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and a professor of computer science at

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. Schröder is known for his contributions to discrete differential geometry and digital geometry processing. He is also a world expert in the area of

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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.".

Biography

Schröder received an M.S. from MIT's Media Lab in 1990, and a Ph.D. in computer science from

Princeton University Princeton University is a private university, private Ivy League research university in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. Founded in 1746 in Elizabeth, New Jersey, Elizabeth as the College of New Jersey, Princeton is the List of Colonial ...

in 1994 under the supervision of Pat Hanrahan. In 1995, he joined the faculty of

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. He did his undergraduate work at

Technische Universität Berlin (TU Berlin; also known as Berlin Institute of Technology and Technical University of Berlin, although officially the name should not be translated) is a public university, public research university located in Berlin, Germany. It was the first ...

in computer science and pure mathematics.

Awards

Schröder is the recipient of an NSF CAREER award, a

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, a Packard Fellowship, and in 2015 was elected as a

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of the

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. He is also the recipient of the ACM

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Computer Graphics Achievement Award in 2003.

References

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