Jaime Peraire (Catalan language: Jaume Peraire i Guitart), from Barcelona, is the H. N. Slater Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics and former head of the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

He is a Fellow of both the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics and the International Association for Computational Mechanics.

His research interests include numerical analysis, finite element methods, and computational aerodynamics.

His teaching interests are computational mechanics, numerical methods for partial differential equations, and dynamics.

[1] He is active in the international CDIO Initiative, an educational framework stressing engineering fundamentals.