Hi, I’m Cherie! I’m a third-year PhD Student in the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University advised by Sebastian Scherer. I am part of the Air Lab and the Field Robotics Center. I did my undergrad at Harvey Mudd College, where I worked with Chris Clark on shark-tracking underwater robots. Between Harvey Mudd and CMU, I cofounded Zenith Robotics with Chris Clark and Vai Viswanathan. I am currently supported by the Croucher Foundation.
My research interest is in the intersection of field robotics, computer vision and machine learning towards the goal of bringing robots to uncertain safety-critical environments. Specifically, I’m interested in developing robot learning and control algorithms that provide theoretical safety guarantees whilst deployed in the field.
Selected News
- May-Aug 2021 Spending this summer at Microsoft working on “Pretraining for Safety” with Ashish Kapoor and Shuang Ma!
- Jul 2021 Paper on multi-drone human reconstruction accepted at IROS 2021!
- April 2021 Excited to give invited talks at Apple and Lehigh University. Watch the Lehigh talk here.
- Aug 2020 Excited to give an invited talk at UIUC’s ACRL Lab.
- Jul 2020 Mohammadreza and I gave a tutorial session on “Guaranteeing Safety in the Real World”. Watch our talk here! Play with control barrier functions here!
- May 2019 I was awarded the Croucher Foundation Scholarship for the next two years!
Publications
Working Paper

Cherie Ho, Jay Patrikar, Rogerio Bonatti, Sebastian Scherer
Preprint, 2020
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Journals

Rogerio Bonatti, Wenshan Wang, Cherie Ho, Aayush Ahuja, Mirko Gschwindt, Efe Camci, Erdal Kayacan, Sanjiban Choudhury, Sebastian Scherer
Journal of Field Robotics, 2019
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Peer-reviewed Conferences

Cherie Ho, Andrew Jong, Harry Freeman, Rohan Rao, Rogerio Bonatti, Sebastian Scherer
International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2021
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Rogerio Bonatti, Cherie Ho, Wenshan Wang, Sanjiban Choudhury, Sebastian Scherer
International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2019
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Cherie Ho, Kimberly Joly, Andrew P Nosal, Christopher G Lowe, Christopher M Clark
ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC), 2017
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Workshops

Cherie Ho, Jay Patrikar, Rogerio Bonatti, Sebastian Scherer
RSS Workshop on Robust Autonomy, 2020
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Cherie Ho*, Katherine Shih*, Jaskaran Singh Grover, Changliu Liu, Sebastian Scherer
RSS Workshop on Robust Autonomy, 2020
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Best Paper Finalist
Rogerio Bonatti, Wenshan Wang, Cherie Ho, Aayush Ahuja, Mirko Gschwindt, Efe Camci, Erdal Kayacan, Sanjiban Choudhury, Sebastian Scherer
IROS Workshop on Vision-based Drone Navigation, 2019
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Spotlight Talk
Sam Zeng, Vaibhav Viswanathan, Cherie Ho and Sebastian Scherer
NeurIPS Workshop on Imitation Learning and its Challenges in Robotics, 2018
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Honors & Awards
- 2019-2021 Croucher Scholarship for Doctoral Study (Full Scholarship)
- 2019 Best Paper Finalist, IROS Vision-based Drones Workshop
- 2018 HMC INQ Inaugural Class (Harvey Mudd Startup Incubator)
- 2017 Harvey Mudd College Johnson Excellence in Engineering Award
- 2017 Harvey Mudd College Engineering Departmental Honors
- 2016 University of Southern California Wrigley Institute Graduate Summer Fellowship (as an undergraduate)
- 2014 - 2017 Jude and Eileen Laspa Fellowship in Autonomous Systems
- 2015 First Place, MuddHacks (Gesture-controlled helicopter)