Cherie Ho

Post-doc with Prof. Jeannette Bohg (IPRL @ Stanford) to work on Mobile Manipulators! Supported by a 2-year post-doc fellowship from the Croucher Foundation. Starting July 2025.

• Researching computer vision and learning algorithms to increase sensing horizon and deployment envelope for multiple applications: offroad driving, search-and-rescue, and wheelchair navigation. • Researching generalizable, uncertainty-aware perception for autonomous wheelchairs using LLM and Foundation Models (Funded by Japan AIST). • Researching ways to communicate robotics capabilities to the public and policymakers (Collab. with OECD). • Developed perception systems for high-speed off-road driving (Funded by DARPA). • Built a multi-drone planner for 3D actor reconstruction. Collaborated with three labs from CMU and UMN to build an autonomous outdoor MoCap for dense reconstruction (Funded by NSF).

Researched methods for "Pretraining for Robot Safety"

I led a team of 5 in an industry-sponsored project to characterize the impact of building materials and geometries on RF propagation using Vector Network Analyzers, Signal Generators, and Spectrum Analyzers. Essentially, we are answering, where in the house you should be at to avoid Netflix buffering.

I worked on tracking shark aggregations with multiple underwater robots! For this research, I received a Wrigley Institute Summer Graduate Fellowship from the University of Southern California (USC), usually reserved for Ph.D. candidates, as an undergraduate to conduct robotics research in Catalina.

I developed an internal tool for Google Analytics to monitor trends and detect anomalies in BigTable usage. The tool identifies possible concerns (ex: Stale BigTables, Sudden changes in BigTable usage and user group quota usage) and alerts the concerned engineer(s) of any issues.