He is professor of computer science and the Rappaport Medical School at the Technion in Haifa, Israel.

His contributions include defining (with Ido Dagan and Martin Golumbic) the notion of trapezoid graphs, and pioneering analysis of biological networks.

Pinter was born in Haifa, Israel in 1953 to parents of German Jewish descent both refugees from Nazi Germany in the 1930s.

Before turning his focus to bioinformatics, Pinter most notably co-defined the notion of trapezoid graphs[3] and made significant contributions to the field of Integrated Circuit design.

During this time he has important contributions to the discrete modeling and analysis of biological networks,[6] providing insights about their functionality in spite of the relatively simple and highly efficient computational techniques.