Peter Fox (professor)
| Peter Arthur Fox | |
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Key note speaker at Fordham University
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| Born |
25 May 1959 Devonport, Tasmania, Australia |
| Residence | Troy, New York, United States |
| Citizenship | Australia Ireland |
| Nationality | Australia |
| Fields |
Applied Mathematics Physics Computer Science Semantic web Cognitive Science |
| Institutions |
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution National Center for Atmospheric Research Yale University Monash University Chisholm Institute |
| Alma mater | Monash University |
| Thesis | Compressible Convection in the Sun (With Applications To Granulation, Supergranulation and Sunspots) |
| Doctoral advisor | Rene Francois Edouard van der Borght |
| Doctoral students | Ankesh Khandelwal, Jin Guang Zheng, Yu Chen, Linyun Fu, Han Wang |
| Known for | Defining Informatics and Data Science in Earth Sciences, shaping the Sun-Earth Connections Research Agenda and co-convening the Community |
| Notable awards | EGU Ian McHarg Medal ESIP Federation Martha Maiden Award |
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Peter Arthur Fox is a data science and Semantic eScience researcher at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), United States. He is a Tetherless World Constellation chair and professor of Earth and Environmental Science, Computer Science and Cognitive Science, and director of the Information Technology and Web Science Program at RPI, and is known for defining informatics and data science in earth sciences as well as defining the sun-earth connection research agenda and co-convening the community. Fox was born in Devonport, Tasmania, Australia and currently resides in Troy, NY, United States.
While studying at Monash University, in Victoria (B.Sc., Mathematics, 1979; B.Sc. (Hons I), Mathematics, 1980; and Ph.D. Applied Mathematics, 1985), Fox worked as a Lecturer in the Mathematics department of Chisholm Institute of Technology (1982–83) and as Assistant Research Scientist in the Mathematics department at Monash University (1983–85).
At the end of December 1985, Fox started his life as a Post Doctoral Fellow (1986–88), and later as an Associate Research Scientist (1988–91) at the Center for Solar and Space Research at Yale University. Fox also taught a course in Astronomy for non-science majors at Yale geared toward students pursuing a liberal arts degree.
While at Yale, Fox was attending a workshop in Boulder, Colorado when he received an invitation to give a talk at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR). Subsequently, a job offer from NCAR was extended and accepted, where he would remain until 2008.
From 1991 to 2008, Fox was at the High Altitude Observatory (HAO) of NCAR in Boulder, Colorado, as Scientist until 1995, and Chief Computational Scientist from 1995 to 2008. While at HAO, Fox wrote detailed technical schema that remains decades ahead of its time to this date.
Early in 2008, while employed at HAO, Fox was being actively recruited by a number of academic and research organizations in the U.S.A. and internationally. In September 2008 he accepted a Chaired Full Professor appointment with Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) in Troy, New York. Fox was the third senior chair in the Tetherless World Constellation (TWC) joining James Hendler and Deborah McGuinness.
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