Peidong is a serial entrepreneur and was a co-founder of Ahura Scientific utilizing Raman and FTIR spectroscopy. His work helped pioneer a new field of applications based on rugged hand-held spectroscopy which led to its acquisition by Thermo Fisher. Peidong also co-founded CoreTek which was acquired by Nortel. He is a recipient of the G. N. Hatsopoulos award at Thermo Fisher and is also an inventor with 15 issued patents in laser technology, opto-mechanics, and analytical instrumentation.