Technische Universität München

Peter Schröder is a Professor of Computer Science and Applied and Computational Mathematics at the California Institute of Technology where he began his academic career in 1995. Prior to Caltech and a short stint as postdoctoral research fellow at Interval Corporation (summer 1995) he was a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of South Carolina department of mathematics and a lecturer in the computer science department, where he worked with Prof. Björn Jawerth and Dr. Wim Sweldens. He received his PhD in computer science from Princeton University in 1994 for work on "Wavelet Methods for Illumination Computations." Prior to Princeton he was a member of the technical staff at Thinking Machines, where he worked on graphics algorithms for massively parallel computers. In 1990 he received an MS degree from MIT's Media Lab. He did his undergraduate work at the Technical University of Berlin in computer science and pure mathematics. He has also held an appointment as a visiting researcher with the German national computer science research lab (GMD) and its visualization group.

2006 Humboldt Research Prize

2003 ACM/SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics Achievement Award

2001 Discover Magazine Innovator Finalist Award

1998 Packard Fellowship

1997 Okawa Foundation Grant

1997 IBM partnership Award

1996 Sloan Fellowship

1996 NSF CAREER Award

More publications are available here.

Boris Springborn, Peter Schröder, Ulrich Pinkall: Conformal Equivalence of Triangle Meshes. In: ACM Transactions on Graphics, 2008, volume 27, number 3.

Sharif Elcott, Yiying Tong, Eva Kanso, Peter Schröder, Mathieu Desbrun: Stable, Circulation-Preserving, Simplicial Fluids. In: ACM Transactions on Graphics, 2007, volume 26, number 1.

Inam Ur Rahman, Iddo Drori, Victoria C. Stodden, David L. Donoho, Peter Schröder: Multiscale Representations for Manifold-Valued Data. In: SIAM Multiscale Modeling and Simulation, 2005, volume 4, number 4, pages 1201—1232.

Eitan Grinspun, Anil Hirani, Mathieu Desbrun, Peter Schröder: Discrete Shells. In:
Symposium on Computer Animation, 2003, pages 62—67.
Steven Schkolne, Michael Pruett, Peter Schröder: Surface Drawing: Creating Organic 3D Shapes with the Hand and Tangible Tools. In: Proceedings of CHI, 2001,
pages 261—268.

Andrei Khodakovsky, Peter Schröder, Wim Sweldens: Progressive Geometry Compression. In: Computer Graphics, 2000,pages 271-278,

Fehmi Cirak, Michael Ortiz, Peter Schröder: Subdivision Surfaces: A New Paradigm for Thin-Shell Finite-Element Analysis. In: Int.\ J.\ Numer.\ Meth.\ Engng.}, 2000, volume 47, pages 2039-2072.

Mathieu Desbrun, Mark Meyer, Peter Schröder, Alan Barr: Implicit Fairing of Irregular Meshes using Diffusion and Curvature Flow. In: Computer Graphics, 1999, pages 317—324.

A. Lee, W. Sweldens, P. Schröder, L. Cowsar, D. Dobkin: Multiresolution Adaptive Parameterization of Surfaces. In: Computer Graphics, 1998, pages 95—104.

Peter Schröder, Wim Sweldens: Spherical Wavelets: Efficiently Representing Functions on the Sphere. In: Computer Graphics, 1995, pages 161—172.

The following topics represent the core of Schröder’s research: geometric modeling, hierarchical methods, physical simulation and numerical algorithms. He is a world expert in the area of wavelet based methods for computer graphics. He helped pioneer the use of fast wavelet solvers for illumination computations and developed (with Dr. Sweldens) the first practical spherical wavelet transform.