👋 Hi, I’m Yuecheng Peng, a first-year PhD student in the Department of Human-Centered Design & Engineering at the University of Washington, advised by Nadya Peek. My research focuses on Human–Computer Interaction, AI-assisted creative workflows, and personal & digital fabrication.

🖥️ I was a visiting researcher in Tsinghua University, collaborating with Haipeng Mi and Liang He on developing an AI-assisted platform that makes HCI research more accessible to non-academic audiences.

🧪 I was also a visiting researcher in Morphing Matter Lab at University of California, Berkeley, working with Lining Yao on fabrication of biodegradable sensors and actuators.

🧶 In UW, I worked in Machine Agency with Nadya Peek and Hannah on the fabrication of knitted sensors.

🩼 I also worked in Make4All Group with Jennifer Mankoff and Jerry Cao on using personal & digital fabrication to tackle accessibility challenges.

🧤 At the very beginning of this journey, I worked with Guanyun Wang, on the personal fabrication of functional textiles.

📫 let's connect!: ychpeng(at)uw(dot)edu

ACADEMIC

BioTube: Designing and Fabricating Biodegradable Hollow Tubular Devices Through Progressive Crosslinking Alginate

Yuecheng Peng*, Mako Miyatake*, Tyler L Peng, Qiuyu Lu, Yue Yang, Lining Yao.

In CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’25).

Paper
GitHub
Video

"A Tool for Freedom": Co-Designing Mobility Aid Improvements Using Personal Fabrication and Physical Interface Modules with Primarily Young Adults.

Jerry Cao, Krish Jain, Julie Zhang, Yuecheng Peng, Shwetak Patel, and Jennifer Mankoff. 2025.

In CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’25).

Best Paper Honorable Mention

Paper
GitHub

What's in a cable? Abstracting Knitting Design Elements with Blended Raster/Vector Primitives.

Hannah Twigg-Smith, Yuecheng Peng, Emily Whiting, and Nadya Peek. 2024.

In The 37th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST '24).

Paper
Software
Video

IntelliTex: Fabricating Low-cost and Washable Functional Textiles using A Double-coating Process.

Yuecheng Peng, Danchang Yan, Haotian Chen, Yue Yang, Ye Tao, Weitao Song, Lingyun Sun, and Guanyun Wang. 2024.

In CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’24).

Best Paper Honorable Mention

Paper
Documentation
Video

EXPERIMENTAL

Accessible Eyedrop (Mar, 2025)

Hardware Prototyping | Computer Vision

Knit Sensors (Apr, 2024)

Machine Knitting | Soft Sensors

OmniSurface (May, 2024)

Hardware Prototyping | IoT | Novel Input

MagDock (Feb, 2024)

Hardware Development | Fabrication

MobilityIO (Feb, 2024)

Hardware Prototyping | Accessibility

TexVerse (Feb, 2024)

Full Stack Development | Web App

Acrylic Deformation (Oct, 2023)

Fabrication | Acrylic | Shape Change

Time Stopper (Oct, 2023)

Fabrication | 3D Print | Mechanics

I2C Wearable (Dec, 2023)

Hardware Prototyping | Wearables

UNDERGRAD PROJECTS (ARCHIVED)

MagPaper (2022)

Fabrication | Haptics | Magnetic Elastomer

48°C SUGAR (2022)

Fabrication | Shape Change

MOISTVALVE (2022)

Fabrication | Shape Change | Responsive Hydrogels

COFLUID (2022)

Fabrication | Microfluidics

When Wind Blows (2022)

Data Visualization | Front-end Development

Carrots Will Lead the Way (2022)

Game | Hardware Prototyping

SustainKG (2021)

Data Visualization | Full Stack Development

Marvel Cinemic Universe Visualization (2021)

Data Visualization