Peter C. Nelson is an American artificial intelligence researcher and computer science professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago, and as of 2008 he has been the dean of the College of Engineering. Prior to assuming his deanship, he was head of the UIC Department of Computer Science. He received his B.A. in Computer Science and Mathematics from North Park University in 1984, and subsequently completed both his M.S. in computer science from in 1986 and his Ph.D. in computer science in 1988 from Northwestern University.
- Occupation
- computer scientist, artificial intelligence researcher
- Citizenship
- United States