Peter Scharf earned his B.A. in philosophy at Wesleyan University and his doctorate in Sanskrit at the University of Pennsylvania, after which he taught Sanskrit at Brown University for 19 years. Since 2011, he held several visiting professorships: Visiting Professor at the Maharishi University of Management Research Institute, International Blaise Pascal Research Chair at the University of Paris Diderot, Visiting Professor in the Department of Sanskrit Studies at the University of Hyderabad, and Visiting Professor of Sanskrit in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay where has remained for three years. He is also the director of the Sanskrit Library which he founded in 2002. While his research focuses on the linguistic traditions of India, Vedic Sanskrit, and Indian philosophy, he has devoted considerable attention over the past several years to Sanskrit computational linguistics and building a digital Sanskrit library http://sanskritlibrary.org. He has headed several projects to digitize and integrate major bi-lingual dictionaries, specialized dictionaries, and traditional thesauri into a multidictionary interface; to integrate digital texts, lexical resources, and linguistic software; and to enhance access to Sanskrit manuscripts by integrating digital images of them with corresponding digital editions, a comprehensive dynamic hypertext catalogue, and text-image alignment software. He recently completed two projects, one to develop automated text-image alignment to enhance access to Sanskrit manuscript images, and another that catalogued 1,700 Sanskrit manuscripts at Harvard University. He is now developing computational implementations of Pāṇinian grammar and is investigating the use of Pāṇinian models of verbal cognition in computational syntax. His most recent book is an edited volume of papers on Sanskrit syntax published in 2015.