Qi Heng Ho

Qi Heng Ho

Autonomous Systems & AI Researcher. Assistant Professor at Virginia Tech.

Publications

You can also find my articles on my Google Scholar profile.

Journal Articles

  1. Perrault, N., Ho, Q. H., & Lahijanian, M. (2025). Kino-PAX: Highly Parallel Kinodynamic Sampling-based Planner. Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L).
  2. Ho, Q. H., Sunberg, Z., & Lahijanian, M. (2024). Sampling-based Reactive Synthesis for Nondeterministic Hybrid Systems. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L).

Peer-Reviewed Conference Publications

  1. Muvvala, K., Ho, Q. H., & Lahijanian, M. (2025). Beyond Winning Strategies: Admissible and Admissible Winning Strategies for Quantitative Reachability Games. International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI).
  2. Ho, Q. H., Feather, M., Rossi, F., Sunberg, Z., & Lahijanian, M. (2024). Sound and Efficient Algorithms for POMDPs with Reachability Objectives via Heuristic Search. Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI).
  3. Ho, Q. H., Becker, T., Kraske, B., Laouar, Z., Feather, M., Rossi, F., Sunberg, Z., & Lahijanian, M. (2024). Recursively-Constrained Partially Observable Markov Decision Processes. Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI).
  4. Ho, Q. H., Perrault, N., Sunberg, Z., & Lahijanian, M. (2024). LTL-Gaussian Belief Trees. International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) Workshop on How to Ensure Correct Robot Behaviors? Software Challenges in Formal Methods for Robotics.
  5. Laouar, Z., Ho, Q. H., Mazouz, R., Becker, T., & Sunberg, Z. (2024). Feasibility-Guided Safety-Aware Model Predictive Control for Jump Markov Linear Systems. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS).
  6. Ilyes, R., Ho, Q. H., & Lahijanian, M. (2023). Stochastic Robustness Interval for Motion Planning with Signal Temporal Logic. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA).
  7. Ho, Q. H., Ilyes, R., Sunberg, Z., & Lahijanian, M. (2023). Poster Abstract: Sampling-based Approach to Robust STL Synthesis for Complex Systems under Uncertainty. Proceedings of the 26th ACM International Conference on Hybrid Systems: Computation and Control (HSCC).
  8. Ho, Q. H., Sunberg, Z., & Lahijanian, M. (2023). Planning with SiMBA: Motion Planning under Uncertainty for Temporal Goals using Simplified Belief Guides. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA).
  9. Theurkauf, A., Ho, Q. H., Ilyes, R., Ahmed, N., & Lahijanian, M. (2023). Chance-Constrained Motion Planning with Event-Triggered Estimation. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA).
  10. Ho, Q. H., Sunberg, Z., & Lahijanian, M. (2022). Gaussian Belief Trees for Probabilistic Signal Temporal Logic Planning. Robotics Science and Systems (RSS) Workshop on Risk Aware Decision Making: From Optimal Control to Reinforcement Learning.
  11. Ho, Q. H., Sunberg, Z., & Lahijanian, M. (2022). Gaussian Belief Trees for Chance Constrained Asymptotically Optimal Motion Planning. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA).
  12. Ho, Q. H., Ilyes, R., Sunberg, Z., & Lahijanian, M. (2022). Automaton-Guided Control Synthesis for Signal Temporal Logic Specifications. IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC).
  13. Luo*, Y., Meghjani*, M., Ho*, Q. H., Hsu, D., & Rus, D. (2021). Interactive Planning for Autonomous Urban Driving in Adversarial Scenarios. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA).
  14. Guo, H., Huang, Z., Ho, Q. H., Ang, M., & Rus, D. (2021). Autonomous Navigation in Dynamic Environments with Multi-Modal Perception Uncertainties. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA).
  15. Meghjani, M., Luo, Y., Ho, Q. H., Cai, P., Verma, S., Rus, D., & Hsu, D. (2019). Context and Intention Aware Planning for Urban Driving. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS).
  16. Meghjani, M., Verma, S., Eng, Y. H., Ho, Q. H., Rus, D., & Ang, M. H. J. (2018). Context-Aware Intention and Trajectory Prediction for Urban Driving Environment. IFRR International Symposium on Experimental Robotics (ISER).

Lightly Refereed Manuscripts (Workshops, Symposia)

  1. Ho, Q. H., Feather, M., Rossi, F., Lahijanian, M., & Sunberg, Z. (2024). Enhancing Online Planning and Human-in-the-Loop Control with Probabilistic Temporal Logic Shields for Partially Observable Systems. In Southern California Robotics Symposium.