Peter Whidden

Peter is a creative software engineer whose work spans physics, astronomy, machine learning, and computer graphics. He currently works at Amazon in Seattle on video classification technology. Peter has also worked with engineers from CERN to build interactive 3D visualizations used in particle physics. In recent years he developed software with the Data Intensive Research in Astrophysics and Cosmology (DIRAC) Institute which enabled the discovery of over 30 new minor planets in the Kuiper belt. Recently his artistic collaborations with Alex Miller of SpaceFiller have been featured in galleries and in a permanent installation in Seattle.

Peter Whidden