AI often decouples knowledge—which is about access to information—from understanding—which is about mastery. There is danger in settling for the former when what one needs is the latter. Understanding is harder to gain and quantify, but ultimately much more important.

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

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!

Come check out our papers at #CHI2026 this year! - "Narrix" | Thu, 16 Apr | 9:00 AM | P1 R127 - "Interactive Explainable Ranking" *Best Paper Award!* | Thu, 16 Apr | 11:15 AM | Area 1+2+3 Theatre - "CineCraft" | Fri, 17 Apr | 9:48 AM | P1 R128 More on each project to follow!

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

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.

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

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

Come check out our talk on filter guided diffusion at #SIGGRAPH2024 from amazing students Zeqi Gu and Ethan Yang! In the controllable image gen session at 9am!

I will be speaking today at 2pm in the computational cameras and displays workshop at #CVPR (in Arch 204) Come check it out! csiplab.github.io/ccd2024/

Really nice of the authors to highlight a change like this on social media. In the age of Arxiv and Twitter where review often follows exposure I hope we can normalize follow-ups like this. Also, for the curious, here's a fun video from the older work: youtu.be/4f09VdXex3A?si=Syz8…

Check out @ericmchen1 and @RuyuYan00 presenting our work with @sholalkere and @KaiZhang9546 on controlling the viewpoint of generated images at #ICCV2023! Cool observations and insights on balancing photo-realism and photo-consistency in generated images. ray-cond.github.io/