Concordia International School Shanghai, China
Peter pioneered a K–12 Big Data Analytics program in 2014, at a time when neither an established curriculum nor educational standards existed in the field. His passion for data analytics is evident in both his teaching and research. He shares this passion with his students by supervising practical data analytics projects in his Big Data Analytics course. Both his own work and that of his students have been regularly presented at several international big data and analytics conferences. In 2020, Peter and his students developed the Concordia International School Shanghai online Big Data course (www.dataexcite.org). Peter began his career as an aerospace engineer, working on the preliminary design of a supersonic Mach 2+ Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) for the Department of National Defence, Canada. He later discovered his calling as an educator. With academic backgrounds in Electrical Engineering (B.Sc.), Mechanical Engineering (M.Sc.), Aerospace Engineering (Ph.D.), and Education (Dip. Ed.), Peter readily integrates practical, real-world engineering experience into the classroom. He also developed an Aerospace Engineering course for high school students and serves as the teacher advisor to The Concordia Phoenix Squadron (https://phoenixsquadron.concordiashanghai.org / concordiashanghai.org). Peter is a member of the program committee for the International Big Data and Analytics Educational Conference and serves on the Advisory Board of STEAMwSeniors (www.steamwseniors.org). Peter has taught in Australia, Canada, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, and China, where he is currently teaching.
