Dr. Valles was awarded as Best Presenter for the paper titled “A Victims Detection Approach for Burning Building Sites Using Convolutional Neural Networks” in Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Embedded Systems session track and for the paper titled “Identification of Wild Species in Texas from Camera-trap Images Using Deep Neural Network for Conservation Monitoring” in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning session track at IEEE-CCWC 2020, UNLV.