Peter Fiekowsky

Peter Fiekowsky, president of AVI, earned his SB degree in physics from MIT in 1978. After that he worked in infrared astrophysics at NASA Ames, and then moved to the Fairchild Artificial Intelligence Lab in Palo Alto, in 1982.  In 1984 he founded his current company, Automated Visual Inspection, to build visual inspection systems for the semiconductor and other industries. Since then he has worked on projects and provided key technologies for start-ups in a wide range of industries. These include LCD inspection, genetics, X-ray imaging, the printing industry, and medical imaging.  He has focused on photomask metrology technology since 1996. He holds twenty six patents for image processing techniques. He says he enjoys developing simple, yet powerful solutions to real problems.