Assistant Professor at Cornell University, computer scientist, academic, graphics/vision/HCI, tweets are my own
Ithaca, NY
Joined May 2009
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Come check out our work on LightShop, which will be presented by @gfxptr and Andrew Arena in the 11am session today at #UIST2026! We build an interactive tool for super high precision computational light painting!
Come see Chao's talk on Narrative Keyframing in the Authoring w AI session Tues 11am @ #UIST2026!
We create a system that lets you keyframe generative prose the way you would an animation. You can use keyframes to control plotlines, character arcs, and narrative perspective!
Excited to share 𝘕𝘢𝘳𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘒𝘦𝘺𝘧𝘳𝘢𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘨, a new interaction technique for AI-assisted creative writing! #UIST2026
It’s inspired by a familiar idea from animation: 𝘬𝘦𝘺𝘧𝘳𝘢𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘨. (1/5)
Check out @megatran23's talk tomorrow at #UIST2026 on MicroEdits (Best Paper Honorable Mention 🏆), w Mackenzie Leake and Valentina Shin!
We look at a type of video editing that human experts do much better than AI, and build a human-AI tool to make exploring these edits easier!
Excited to share MicroEdits (#UIST2026 Best Paper Honorable Mention 🏆) from my @AdobeResearch internship with Mackenzie Leake, Valentina Shin & @AbeDavis (@CornellCIS).
AI can make rough cuts, but fine-cut editing still takes time and skill 🧵 [1/n]
🔗 microedits.github.io
Come check out papers from our group at #UIST2026 ! @zhangchaodesign will show Narrative Keyframing @ 11:20am Tues, @megatran23 will show MicroEdits @ 4pm Tues (*Best Paper Honorable Mention!*), and @gfxptr + Andrew Arena will show LightShop @ 11am Thurs!
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If you ask Claude to “identify any potential issues or opportunities for improvement” in your old code, be prepared for an unnecessarily judgmental response. It’s like, “we get it Claude, you know how to implement a serializer…” 🫷🙄🤌
AI in creative writing raises a lot of complicated questions, including what meaningful human creative control should look like. Our #UIST2026 paper on Narrative Keyframing led by @zhangchaodesign explores this with inspiration from classic automation strategies used in animation
Excited to share 𝘕𝘢𝘳𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘒𝘦𝘺𝘧𝘳𝘢𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘨, a new interaction technique for AI-assisted creative writing! #UIST2026
It’s inspired by a familiar idea from animation: 𝘬𝘦𝘺𝘧𝘳𝘢𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘨. (1/5)
I know a lot of people were hoping @taylorswift13 and I would date so we could find secret messages about Noise-Coded Illumination and Interactive Explainable Ranking in her next album, but she seems happy with her new beau and I really think we should try to support them...
Feature in the Chronicle about our work on Interactive Explainable Ranking, which won a Best Paper Award at #CHI2026! We use optimization, AI, and interaction design to help people make more explainable and consistent decisions. Huge congrats to first author @zhangchaodesign!
A new AI tool, Interactive Explainable Ranking, developed at @Cornell_Bowers, is designed to help users rank a set of choices – job applicants, graduate schools, even Oscar candidates. VIDEO @acm_chi @AbeDavis @CornellGrad news.cornell.edu/stories/202…
Honored to be named a Sloan Fellow! So much gratitude for all of my collaborators and others who have supported me! And, of course, a very special thanks to my amazing research group! I am so fortunate to work with such awesome students! #SloanFellow
Congrats to the 126 early-career scholars awarded a 2026 Sloan Research Fellowship, whose creativity and innovation set them apart as the next generation of scientific leaders! Our Fellows represent 7 fields and 44 institutions across the US and Canada.
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ALT 2026 Congratulations Sloan Research Fellows!
AI is powerful, but its biggest impact so far has been to erase *useful* friction: proof-of-work we used to assess candidates, curate content, confirm (human) learning, and make fraud harder to scale. "AI slop" is a cute term for something with potentially terrifying consequences
Come see @megatran23 present our work on MeCapture at #SIGGRAPH2025 appy hour! Based on our UIST2024 paper with @ethane_yang and @lique_taylor.
Abe Davis retweeted
Come see our talk on "Pocket Time-Lapse" at SIGGRAPH today at 4pm in the Image Representation, Editing, & Generation session!
West Building, Rooms 118-120.
With @zzigakovacic , @madhavaggar and @AbeDavis
Come check out our 3 papers @ #SIGGRAPH2025! @liuxr0831 will talk today in the design session at 9:45, @gfxptr today at the Comp Imaging at session 2:15pm, and @ericmchen1 on Wed at 4pm in the imaging session!
Excited to share our ACM TOG/ SIGGRAPH '25 work on Noise-Coded Illumination (NCI)! We use coded noise to add an invisible watermark to lighting that helps detect fake or manipulated video. With @gfxptr and collaborators @zekun_hao and @SergeBelongie. url: peterfmichael.com/nci/
A long a depressing thread
This week in academia, a not so short🧵...
1. Staff reductions and other cost cutting measures coming to Brown University highereddive.com/news/brown-…
Abe Davis retweeted
This week in academia, a not so short🧵...
1. Staff reductions and other cost cutting measures coming to Brown University highereddive.com/news/brown-…
Come check out our two talks in the vision-based UIs session at UIST! First paper with @megatran23 @ethane_yang and @lique_taylor. Second paper with @RuyuYan00 and @js3623 !
Come check out our work on Personal Time-Lapse at the UIST demo session! We use AR and custom tracking to capture 3D time-Lapse of the body for healthcare applications. With @megatran23 @ethane_yang and @lique_taylor #UIST2024