Hi, I'm Peter He

Cornell 🌽 ECE + Robotics '27

I work within the areas of Human Computer Interaction (HCI), Wearables, and XR.

At Cornell University I conduct research under Prof. Cheng Zhang in the Sci-Fi Lab as well as with Prof. Cara Nunez in the HAPPI Lab and previously with Prof. Thijs Roumen at Cornell Tech.

I also founded and lead Cornell XR, the fastest club to ever become an official Cornell Engineering project team building projects in Haptics and XR.

Previously, I was an engineering intern @ Mira, building both software and hardware for smartglasses with a display + always-on AI assistance, I also made firebending real.

Outside of academics, I really enjoy creative work and prototyping interaction concepts.

I am applying for PhDs with a Fall 2027 start date. If you have a position available and find my work interesting, I would love to chat about potential opportunities!

I am currently a Summer 2026 research intern under Prof. Tingyu Cheng at the University of Notre Dame, working on wearables, stretchy textile electronics, and their fabrication.

Feel free to reach out to me at ph475@cornell.edu or connect with me on LinkedIn.

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publications

*excluding pending submissions ;-;

SplatOverflow

SplatOverflow: Asynchronous Hardware Troubleshooting

Amritansh Kwatra, Tobias Wienberg, Ilan Mandel, Ritik Batra, Peter He, Francois Guimbretiere, Thijs Roumen

Paper (CHI 2025) Gaussian Splat Localization Writeup

Honorable Mention at ACM CHI 2025

SeamPose

SeamPose: Repurposing Seams as Capacitive Sensors in a Shirt for Upper-Body Pose Tracking

Tianhong Catherine Yu, *Manru Mary Zhang, *Peter He, Chi-Jung Lee, Cassidy Cheesman, Saif Mahmud, Ruidong Zhang, Francois Guimbretiere, Cheng Zhang

Paper (UIST 2024) Seampose PCB Writeup

*Co-Second Author on the Paper

featured projects

A few of my publicly documented projects, for more, look at my projects page!.

Human Operator Human Operator
Human Operator
A human augmentation tool that allows AI to briefly take control of your body through EMS to help you learn or do things.
Gaussian Splat Localization Gaussian Splat Localization
Gaussian Splat Localization
Camera localization into a 3D Gaussian Splat scene using CV, COLMAP, and Hierarchical Localization (hloc).
Firebender Firebender
Firebender
Designed (CAD + Electronics), programmed, and built consumer punch-activated flamethrowers for a startup's publicity stunt.
SixthSense Sixth-Sense
Sixth-Sense
Automatic obstacle (spidey-sense) avoidance using electrostimuation
(Galvanic Vestibular Stimulation eg. GVS).
NeuroScent NeuroScent
NeuroScent
Brain-computer interface, VR Headset, and
DIY Olfactory Display.
Bebe Bebe
Bebe
An emotive 6-DOF bipedal robot.
8x8 Shape Display Cheap 8x8 Shape Display
Cheap 8x8 Shape Display
A cheap programmable mechanical surface, 64 motorized cells for ~$120
Rewind Rewind
Rewind
Memory management system + 3D Scene reconstruction from video.
Hardware Accelerated AV1 Decoding Hardware “Accelerated” AV1 Decoding
Hardware “Accelerated” AV1
An attempt at a FPGA inverse DCT co-processor integrated with dav1d for AV1 video decoding.