Bill Peter received his Master's Degree in Materials Science and Engineering from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville in 2002. He is currently a Ph.D. candidate in Materials Science and Engineering with an expected graduation date of August 2005.

He has been working professionally in the material sciences since 1995, and has been a guest researcher at ORNL and Tohoku University in Japan. He is also a graduate research assistant at the University of Tennessee. He is a fellow in the National Science Foundation (NSF) Integrative Graduate Education and Research Training (IGERT) Program.