Hafiz Oyediran

Education

M.Sc. Construction Management, University of Lagos, Nigeria
B.Sc. Building, University of Lagos, Nigeria
Associate Degree, Civil Engineering Technology, Lagos State Polytechnic, Nigeria

About Hafiz

Hafiz Oyediran joins the Department of Civil and Environmetal Engineering as a Lecturer starting Fall 2024. Hafiz has a background in Construction Automation and Robotics. Prior to his academic career, he worked in numerous roles as a structural engineer in training, site supervisor, and project manager. He holds an MSc in Construction Management and a BSc in Building from the University of Lagos, Nigeria, and an associate degree in Civil Engineering Technology from Lagos State Polytechnic, Lagos, Nigeria. He is also a co-founder and director of the "BIM Africa Initiative", an NGO for the advocacy of BIM adoption in Africa. The organization is known for BIM advocacy and adoption in Africa.

His current research areas of interest include:

• Construction Robotics
• Human Robot Interaction
• Building Information Modeling (BIM)
• Virtual, Augmented, and Mixed Reality Application in Construction

Selected Publications

Peer-reviewed Journal Publications

Peavy, M., Kim, P., Oyediran, H., & Kim, K. (2023). “Integration of Real-Time Semantic Building Map Updating with Adaptive Monte Carlo Localization (AMCL) for Robust Indoor Mobile Robot Localization”. Applied Sciences, 13(2), 909. https://doi.org/10.3390/app13020909

Ansaripour, A., Heydariaan, M., Kim, K., Gnawali, O., Oyediran, H. (2023). “ViPER+: Vehicle Pose Estimation Using Ultra-Wideband Radios for Automated Construction Safety Monitoring”. Applied Sciences, 13(3), 1581. https://doi.org/10.3390/app13031581

Oyediran, H., Turner, W., Kim, K., and Barrows, M. (2024). “Integration of 4D BIM and Robot Task Planning: Creation and Flow of Construction-Related Information for Action-Level Simulation of Indoor Wall Frame Installation”. arXiv preprint arXiv:2402.03602

Peer-refereed Conference Proceedings

Oyediran, H., Turner, W., and Kim, K. (2024). " Information Modeling for Construction Robot Task Planning and Simulation in 4D BIM" Construction Research Conference, Des Moines, Iowa, USA.

Oyediran, H., Shiraz, A., Peavy, M., Merino, L., and Kim, K. (2024). " Human-Aware Safe Robot Control and Monitoring System for Operations in Congested Indoor Construction Environment " Construction Research Conference, Des Moines, Iowa, USA.

Oyediran, H., Peavy, M., and Kim, K. (2021). “Autonomous Building Occupancy Monitoring Using Robots” ASCE International Conference on Computing in Civil Engineering (i3CE2021), Orlando, Florida, USA.

Oyediran, H., Ghimire, P., Peavy, M., Kim, K., and Barutha, P. (2021). "Robotics Applicability for Routine Operator Tasks in Nuclear Power Plants Facilities " 38th International Symposium on Automation and Robotics in Construction (ISARC), Dubai, UAE. doi: 10.22260/ISARC2021/0091 Pages 677-682 (2021 Proceedings of the 38th ISARC, Dubai, UAE, ISBN 978-952-69524-1-3, ISSN 2413-5844)

Other

BIM Africa. 2020. Africa BIM Report 2020. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/344197161_African_BIM_Report_2020.