Junior Undergraduate Researcher I
yasazaheen@usf.edu
1/23/2026→
Hi there! I’m a 2nd year Computer Science Student at USF and my technical skills revolve mostly around full-stack development but recently I’ve been messing around with machine learning algorithms as well. I serve as the Secretary of the Association for Computing Machinery at USF and also as an undergraduate student researcher at the RARE Lab. I have won 2 hackathons (Hackabull 2025 and Prosthex 2025) and love coding hours on end.
— 1/26/2026
Reaching out for broader impacts–RARE Lab participated Automation Fest!
RARE Lab’s WIP explanable robotics work, “Towards Contextual Robot Intent Explanation for Hierarchical Vision–Language–Action Collaboration,” was accepted to the ICRA 2026 Workshop on Semantics for Reliable Robot Autonomy: From Environment Understanding and Reasoning to Safe Interaction. Congrats to Amanuel, Aarav, Yasa, et al.!
