Eric Whitmire

My early work centered on wearable devices for augmented reality and smart glasses: wristbands, rings, and gloves that capture real-world human activity through novel sensing modalities, spanning hardware, embedded software, signal processing, and machine learning.

More recently I've applied this systems-oriented approach to robotics and embodied intelligence, translating human dexterity and activity into representations and policies through sensing, modeling, and real-to-sim-to-real transfer. At Meta I work as a research tech lead, setting technical direction and leading cross-functional teams while staying deeply involved in system design and implementation.

PhD from the UW Ubiquitous Computing Lab (advisor: Shwetak Patel); dual BS in CS and Biomedical Engineering from NC State (Park Scholar, Goldwater Scholar). Best paper and honorable mention awards at top HCI venues; NDSEG and Adobe Research fellowships.