Hi, I'm Peter He

Cornell 🌽 ECE + Robotics '27

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I mainly work within areas of Wearables, Haptics, XR, Robotics, Fabrication, and general Human Computer Interaction (HCI).

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.

Some things I've done:

publications

*excluding pending submissions ;-;

papers

SplatOverflow

SplatOverflow: Asynchronous Hardware Troubleshooting

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

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

posters & other tracks

Yarnconnects

YarnConnects: Towards Yarn-Level Rapid Prototyping For Smart Textiles

*Peter He, Tianhong Catherine Yu, Jingwen Zhu, Tingyu Cheng

Human Operator

Human Operator

*Peter He, Yutong Wu, Ashley Neall, Daniel Kaijzer, Valdemar Danry, Sean Hardesty Lewis

NeurIPS 2026 Creative AI Track Project Page

Selected as a panelist for the track

featured projects

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

SeamPose PCB SeamPose PCB
SeamPose PCB
PCB for conductive thread + capacitive based pose tracking.
Hardware Wearables Research
Gaussian Splat Localization Gaussian Splat Localization
Gaussian Splat Localization
Camera localization into a 3D Gaussian Splat scene using CV, COLMAP, and Hierarchical Localization (hloc).
Software Research
Firebender Firebender
Firebender
Designed (CAD + Electronics), programmed, and built consumer punch-activated flamethrowers for a startup's publicity stunt.
Hardware Wearables
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.
Hardware AI EMS Wearables Research
NeuroScent NeuroScent
NeuroScent
Brain-computer interface, VR Headset, and
DIY Olfactory Display.
Hardware XR
SixthSense Sixth-Sense
Sixth-Sense
Automatic obstacle (spidey-sense) avoidance using electrostimuation
(Galvanic Vestibular Stimulation eg. GVS).
Hardware EMS Wearables
Bebe Bebe
Bebe
An emotive 6-DOF bipedal robot.
Robotics Hardware
8x8 Shape Display Cheap 8x8 Shape Display
Cheap 8x8 Shape Display
A cheap programmable mechanical surface, 64 motorized cells for ~$120
Hardware
Rewind Rewind
Rewind
Memory management system + 3D Scene reconstruction from video.
Hardware AI XR Software