About me

I am a CS graduate student at the University of South Florida (USF). At USF, I was a research assistant at the Reality, Autonomy, and Robot Experience (RARE) Lab and conducted research in robotics. I hold a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from the Federal University of Technology Akure, Nigeria (FUTA). My interests lie in Robotics, Artificial Intelligence (AI), and Human-Robot Interaction (HRI).

At the RARE Lab, I led a project on a Fog Screen-Robot System. The project involved integrating a spatial augmented reality (AR) technology called a fog screen with a robotic system to allow in-the-air projections for robots to communicate with humans in environments that lack projectable surfaces.

Publications

Publication Thumbnail Adrian Lozada, Uthman Tijani, Villa Keth, Hong Wang, and Zhao Han
Anywhere Projected AR for Robot Communication: A Mid-Air Fog Screen-Robot System
HRI 2025
Publication Thumbnail Adrian Lozada, Villa Keth, Uthman Tijani, Michael Klein, and Zhao Han
A Controller for Robots to Autonomously Control Fog Machine
VAM-HRI Workshop at HRI 2025
Publication Thumbnail Uthman Tijani, Hong Wang, and Zhao Han
Towards Reproducible Language-Based HRI Experiments: Open-Sourcing a Generalized Experiment Project
HRI 2024

Uthman Tijani

Graduate Student, Computer Science,
University of South Florida

News

December 2, 2024

My work on a Mid-Air Fog Screen-Robot System was accepted as a full paper to the ACM/IEEE HRI 2025 conference!!!

August 7, 2024

I was awarded the Dr. Joy A. O’Shields Honorary Scholarship in Engineering! Special thanks to the donor Lakecia Gunter for supporting underrepresented graduate students.

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