Peter Arthur Fox (5 May 1959 – 27 March 2021) was a data science and Semantic eScience researcher at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), United States.

[1] Fox was born in Devonport, Tasmania, Australia and resided in Troy, NY, United States until his death on 27 March 2021, at the age of 61.

While at Yale, Fox was attending a workshop in Boulder, Colorado when he received an invitation to give a talk at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR).

In September 2008 he accepted a Chaired Full Professor appointment with Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) in Troy, New York.

[3] Fox was the third senior chair in the Tetherless World Constellation (TWC) [4] joining James Hendler and Deborah McGuinness.

[12] Fox was an associate editor for the Earth Science Informatics journal[13] and a member of the editorial board for Computers & Geosciences.

[16] 2021: M. Lee Allison Award for Geoinformatics, Geological Society of America[17] 2018: Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science[18] 2015: Fellow, American Geophysical Union[19] 2014: Rensselaer Trustees Award for Academic and Intellectual Achievement 2012: Rensselaer Trustees Award for Academic and Intellectual Achievement 2012: Ian McHarg Medal, European Geosciences Union[20] 2012: Martha Maiden Lifetime Achievement Award, Federation of Earth Science Information Partners (ESIP)[21] 2009: Rensselaer Constellation Chair Medal Fox's research and education agenda covered the fields of data science and analytics, ocean and environmental informatics, computational logic, semantic Web, cognitive bias, semantic data frameworks, and solar and solar-terrestrial physics.