Uthman Tijani

Lab Alumni

Uthman Tijani

Ph.D. Student

uthmantijani@usf.edu

08/2023→12/2024


Hello! I am Uthman Tijani, and I joined the RARE Lab in August 2023. I hold a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from the Federal University of Technology Akure (FUTA) in Nigeria. My research interests lie in robotics, human-robot interaction (HRI), artificial intelligence (AI), and augmented reality (AR).

I was working on developing an augmented reality (AR) technology called fog screen, which allows in-the-air projection for robots to communicate with humans in environments that lack projectable surfaces.

— 12/13/2024


Publications

Adrian Lozada, Uthman Tijani, Villa Keth, Hong Wang and Zhao Han

Anywhere Projected AR for Robot Communication: A Mid-Air Fog Screen-Robot System

2025 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI)

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2025
Top HRI conference. 25% acceptance rate.
Uthman Tijani, Hong Wang, and Zhao Han

Towards Reproducible Language-Based HRI Experiments: Open-Sourcing a Generalized Experiment Project

2024 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI)

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2024
61.3% acceptance rate (short contribution)

News

HRI 2025 Full Paper Acceptance

RARE Lab’s fog screen work was accepted to the HRI conference (25% acceptance rate)! Congrats to Adrian, Uthman, Villa, and Hong!

Mid-Fall Lab Lunch

We just had our mid-fall lab lunch. German style!

(Sorry that Maria, Felix, and Jonathan were unable to join!)

Congrats to Uthman Tijani for receiving Dr. Joy A. O’Shields Honorary Scholarship in Engineering. Thanks to donor Lakecia Gunter for supporting underrepresented students!

Start-of-Summer Lab Brunch

We just had our start-of-summer brunch or lunch!

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.

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!

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.

End-of-Fall-2023 Lab Lunch

We just had our end-of-semester lab lunch at Bahama Breeze. What a breeze in Florida!

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!”

First Lab Lunch

We just had our first lab lunch at Hong BBQ & Hot Pot in Tampa!

First Submission

RARE Lab’s first submission was out!

Uthman Tijani and Hong Wang joined the RARE Lab as graduate students. Welcome!