Peter is a Ph.D. candidate in Mathematics at UC Berkeley; he recently returned to the program after a 30-year break and he is working under the supervision of Professor Craig Evans. His current research focuses on nonlinear analysis, stochastic optimal control theory, and differential games with applications to finance. He received an A.B. in Applied Mathematics from UC Berkeley and was in the Ph.D. program studying computational fluid mechanics under Alexandre Chorin in the late 1970’s. Peter was a Lecturer and Assistant Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science at Cal State Hayward (Cal State East Bay) in the early 1980’s.
Peter spent more than 25 years on Wall Street during his hiatus from academia, and he has held positions in senior management, trading and research at major financial institutions. He has provided testimony to the US House of Representatives and worked with US government agencies, including the GAO, the SEC, and the Federal Reserve, regarding the health of the US financial system. Peter is the coauthor of two books on operational risk management as well as dozens of articles on a wide variety of topics for major industry journals and the lay press. Peter is frequently quoted in the press and has appeared on ABC Nightly News, the BBC, BBC Radio, and Bloomberg Radio in addition to penning op-ed pieces for The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal.
Peter is currently a Director with the Berkeley Research Group where he provides litigation-related consulting and expert testimony. To date, he has been a testifying expert on more than two dozen lawsuits, eight of which had more than $1B at issue.