Dr. Peterson is Principal of NXG Logic, LLC which develops scientific software for machine learning, neural networks, statistical analysis, and text mining. He has developed numerous algorithms for data analysis involving text mining, non-linear manifold learning, matrix algebra, eigendecomposition, optimization, and Monte Carlo simulation. He has published more than 100 peer-reviewed scientific journal articles, US Gov't technical reports and monographs, and participates in numerous international machine learning and computational intelligence conferences.