Peter Salamon is a mathematics professor at San Diego State University.

[2] He has an Erdős number of one and is also known for founding and doing extensive work on Finite Time Thermodynamics.

In 1984, Peter Salamon co-founded the Telluride Science and Innovation Center,[3] together with R. Stephen Berry.

Salamon served as Telluride Science’s first Chairman of the Board and President from 1984 through 1987.

In 1990, Salamon introduced the idea of ensembles to neural networks.