Hello! I’m a 5th year Ph.D. Candidate at Cornell CS advised by Abe Davis. My interests lie broadly in the field of computational imaging, where I aim to codesign hardware and algorithms to capture new kinds of data. Specifically, I work in a subfield called computational illumination, which looks at encoding information into the light captured by cameras. I am especially interested in developing systems that work in real-world environments. I am grateful to be supported by the NDSEG fellowship.

Previously, I was a Master’s student at the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Washington in Seattle, where I worked in GRAIL. I also completed my undergraduate degree (2018-2021) in computer engineering at the Allen School.

News

• 2026 — LightShop published at UIST! It was very insightful seeing some of the cool work of the HCI community.
• 2025 — Noise-Coded Illumination published at SIGGRAPH! So grateful for the media attention on this important problem.
• 2024 — Awarded the NDSEG fellowship!
• 2022 — Started my Ph.D. at Cornell!
• Jun 2022 — Completed my M.S. degree and won the Outstanding Senior Award and was nominated for the Dean’s Medal in the College of Engineering!
• Jun 2021 — Graduated with a B.S. in Computer Engineering!

Selected Publications

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  Noise-Coded Illumination for Forensic and Photometric Video Analysis
  Peter F. Michael, Zekun Hao, Serge Belongie, and Abe Davis
  ACM Transactions on Graphics (presented at SIGGRAPH 2025), 2025
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  LightShop: High-Precision Interactive Computational Light Painting
  Peter F. Michael, Andrew Arena, Harald Haraldsson, and Abe Davis
  ACM UIST, 2026

See all on the Publications page.