Peter Shirley | |
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| Born | (1963-06-11)June 11, 1963 (age 61) Evanston, Illinois, United States |
| Alma mater | Reed College University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Computer graphics |
| Institutions | Indiana University Cornell University University of Utah NVIDIA |
| Thesis | Physically based lighting calculations for computer graphics (1991) |
| Doctoral advisor | William Kubitz |
| Website | https://www.petershirley.com/ |
Peter Shirley (born June 11, 1963)[1] is an Americancomputer scientist andcomputer graphics researcher. He is a Distinguished Scientist atNVIDIA and adjunct professor at theUniversity of Utah in computer science. He has made extensive contributions to interactive photorealisticrendering.[2] His textbook,Fundamentals of Computer Graphics, is considered one of the leading introductory texts on computer graphics and is currently in the fifth edition.[3][4]
Shirley was born on June 11, 1963, in Evanston, Illinois. He attended the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Lab School (now theDr. Martin Luther King Jr. Literary and Fine Arts School), Nichols Middle School, andEvanston Township High School. After one semester at theUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, he transferred toReed College in Portland, Oregon, where received his BA in physics in 1985, and then received his PhD in computer science from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign in 1991.[5] He then joined the faculty atIndiana University as an assistant professor. From 1994 to 1996 he was a visiting professor atCornell University. He then joined the faculty at theUniversity of Utah, where he taught until 2008 when he joinedNVIDIA as a research scientist.
