Pete Willemsen received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in computer science from the University of IOWA and the Ph.D. degree in computer science from the University of Iowa, in 2000. He is currently a Professor of Computer Science with the University of Minnesota Duluth, where he has been faculty since 2005. Following his Ph.D. work at Iowa, he continued as a Postdoctoral Researcher and Research Assistant Professor with the School of Computing at the University of Utah. His research interests include human-computer interaction and perception in virtual environments.