Peter Eades

Peter D. Eades (born 8 January 1952)[1] is an Australian computer scientist, an emeritus professor in the School of Information Technologies at the University of Sydney, known for his expertise in graph drawing.

Eades received his bachelor's degree in mathematics from Australian National University in 1974, and his Ph.D. in mathematics from the same university in 1977 under the supervision of Jennifer Seberry.

As well as his faculty position at Sydney, Eades was also a distinguished researcher at NICTA.

[6] He has also written many highly cited research papers in graph drawing, on topics including spring algorithms,[7] performance speed up with N-body methods,[8] maintenance of the "mental map" in dynamically changing drawings,[9] heuristics for reducing the number of edge crossings in layered graph drawings,[10] and visual display of clustering information in graphs.

[3] A workshop in honor of Eades' 60th birthday was held in 2012, as part of the International Symposium on Graph Drawing.