Archives: News
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HRI 2025 Full Paper Acceptance
RARE Lab’s fog screen work was accepted to the HRI conference (25% acceptance rate)! Congrats to Uthman, Adrian, Villa, and Hong!
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Dec 2024 New Member
Undergraduate Researcher Vlad Krukhmalev has joined the RARE lab, working at the intersection of AR and HRI. Welcome!
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Mid-Fall Lab Lunch
We just had our mid-fall lab lunch. German style! (Sorry that Maria, Felix, and Jonathan were unable to join!)
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Adrain’s First Submission
Undergraduate Researcher Adrian Lozada‘s first conference paper was submitted. Congrats!
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DevFest Tampa Bay 2024
RARE Lab participated in the DevFest Tampa Bay outreach event! Hong and Maria showcased our research on indicating a robot’s vision capability with a Pepper robot and AR headset.
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October 2024 New Member
B.S. Honors student Ashley Herbert (10/4), Jonathan Wong (10/17), and Chi Vo (10/28) have joined the RARE lab. Ashley will work on a thesis on robotics & dentistry. Jonathan will focus on robotics & AR/VR. Chi Vo will LLM-enabled storytelling robots. Welcome!
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Sep 2024 New Member
Undergraduate students Maria Julia Vidal (9/4) and Felix Mendez (9/17) have joined the RARE lab. Welcome!
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August 2024 New Member
Undergraduate Student Dev Thakkar joined RARE Lab working at the intersection of robotics and augmented reality.
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Dr. Joy A. O’Shields Honorary Scholarship
Congrats to Uthman Tijani for receiving Dr. Joy A. O’Shields Honorary Scholarship in Engineering. Thanks to donor Lakecia Gunter for supporting underrepresented students!
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July 2024 New Member
Undergraduate student James Yab joined the RARE lab working on comparing a physical robot with its augmented reality version.
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Start-of-Summer Lab Brunch
We just had our start-of-summer brunch or lunch!
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UR2PhD
Congrats to Adrian Lozada and Villa Keth for selection to the CRA Undergraduate Research to PhD (“UR2PhD”) program to learn the hidden, fulfilling research pathways!
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Summer 2024 New Members
Undergraduate students Villa Keth and Ridhima Phatak joined the RARE Lab. Welcome!
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Excellence in Mentoring Undergraduate Research Award – Faculty
Dr. Zhao Han has received the Excellence in Mentoring Undergraduate Research Award – Faculty, in part thanks to the nomination from Tammy Do and Liam Ha!
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April 2024 New Member
Undergraduate student James Ocampo has joined the RARE Lab and will work at the intersection of augmented reality and robotics. Welcome!
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2024 CRA-WP DREU
Congrats to Adrian Lozada for acceptance to the selective CRA-WP Distributed Research Experiences for Undergraduates (DREU)! Adrian will be mentored by Dr. Zhao Han this summer in the RARE lab.
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2024 OneUSF Undergraduate Research Conference
Congrats to Tammy Do and Liam Ha for presenting their work on robots for mental health at the 2024 OneUSF Undergraduate Research Conference! If you missed it, watch a pre-recorded video here.
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IEEE VR 2024
RARE Lab went to the top VR/AR conference—IEEE VR ’24! Hong Wang presented a poster submission on clarifying a robot’s physical vision capability.
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HRI 2024
After just six months, RARE Lab started strong at HRI 2024! Uthman Tijani, Hong Wang, and Xiangfei Kong presented the lab’s works [1, 2, 3]. Dr. Zhao Han gave a keynote.
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USF Innovation Fest
RARE Lab participated Innovation Fest outreach event! Hong Wang showcased our research on indicating a robot’s vision capability with a Pepper robot.
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WYSD Workshop Acceptance
Congrats to Xiangfei Kong for acceptance of her first paper to the WYSD workshop at HRI 2024! It is time to hone methodological skills!
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VAM-HRI 2024 Acceptance and Keynote
Two papers were accepted to the VAM-HRI 2024 workshop! Congrats to Hong Wang, Tammy Do, and Uthman Tijani! Dr. Zhao Han will also give a keynote to the workshop!
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IEEE VR 2024 Student Volunteer Program
Congrats to Hong Wang for being selected (50/200=25%) as a student volunteer at IEEE VR ’24!
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IEEE VR 2024 Poster Submission Acceptance
Hong Wang’s first first-author submission (poster) with Tammy Do’s help was just accepted!
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HRI 2024 Student Volunteer Program
Congrats to Xiangfei Kong & Hong Wang for acceptance to the student volunteer program at HRI ’24. It is a great opportunity to connect with their peers and a fun way to participate in the top conference in HRI!
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Jan 2024 New Members
Undergraduate students Adrian Lozada and Duy Linh (Liam) Ha have joined the RARE Lab. Welcome!
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Third Robot: Fetch Mobile Manipulator
We just unboxed a powerful Fetch robot and learned how to be safe with it. Again, stay tuned to our work!
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Second Robot: Misty II
A Misty II robot has arrived to the RARE lab. Stay tuned to our work!
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2024 CRA-WP Grad Cohort Workshops
Congrats to Hong Wang and Uthman Tijani for acceptance to 2024 CRA-WP Grad Cohort Wokshops for Women and IDEALS (respectively)! They will build mentoring relationships and peer networks there to benefit their graduate career and beyond, as well as balance the power inequality in CS.
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End-of-Fall-2023 Lab Lunch
We just had our end-of-semester lab lunch at Bahama Breeze. What a breeze in Florida!
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HRI 2024 Short
RARE Lab’s first paper was accepted to HRI 2024: “Towards Reproducible Language-Based HRI Experiments: Open-Sourcing a Generalized Experiment Project“. Congrats to Uthman Tijani and Hong Wang!!
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Nov 2023 New Members
Xiangfei Kong and Tammy Do have joined the RARE lab. Welcome!
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First Lab Lunch
We just had our first lab lunch at Hong BBQ & Hot Pot in Tampa!
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First Submission
RARE Lab’s first submission is out, led by Uthman Tijani and Hong Wang!
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First Robot: Pepper
A Pepper robot has arrived! Thank Dr. John Licato for lending it!
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Fall 2023 New Members
Uthman Tijani and Hong Wang joined the RARE Lab as graduate students. Welcome!
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RARE Lab Founded
RARE Lab is officially founded! Welcome to apply to join the lab!