Peter Dingus is a physicist. He received his Ph.D. from UC Berkeley in 1988, and has had posts at EcolePolytechnique in Paris, DESY in Hamburg, and CERN in Geneva. From 1991 until it was shut down in 1993, Mr. Dingus was a staff physicist at the SSC, in Dallas, TX.

Mr. Dingus has published thirty-five scientific papers in refereed journals (such as "Physical Review Letters”). In the mid-nineties, Mr. Dingus left particle physics to work in the field of Speech Recognition. Since then, he has been a principal in two software startups and the cofounder of a third.