We want to welcome Md Masrur Hossain Rakin to the HiPE research team for his upcoming thesis research work!
Welcome Masrur!
Author: Damian Valles
FMLDS Paper Accepted!
Dr. Valles‘s collaborative paper “Low-Cost Sensor Fusion Framework for Organic Substance Classification and Quality Control Using Classification Methods” was accepted to the 2025 IEEE International Conference on Future Machine Learning and Data Science (FMLDS2025), Los Angeles, USA.
NSF-CREST Award!
Dr. Valles is a Co-PI for the awarded NSF-CREST Phase I Center for Ultrawide Bandgap Semiconductor Device Materials, $7,500,000.00 with Dr. Edwin L. Piner (PI – Physics), Yoichi Miyahara (Co-PI – Physics), and Ariful Haque (Co-PI – EE).
Zaheen Defended!
Zaheen Afroz Simin has successfully defended her thesis titled “Secure Bidirectional Communication in IoT-Driven Utility Networks Using Sertainty UXP and LoRaWAN“
Paper Accepted!
Dr. Valles‘s collaborative papers “Motor Fault Diagnosis Across Variable Power Using Deep Learning,” “FPGA-based Matrix Multiplication Accelerator,” and “Image Restoration With Variational Dynamic Memory Net, U-Net and Lnns” were accepted to the 2025 IEEE International Conference on Computer, Information, and Telecommunication Systems (CITS 2025), Comar, France.
Shafiqul Defended!
Shafiqul Alam Khan has successfully defended his thesis titled “UAV Navigation for Urban Firefighting Using Deep Reinforcement Learning“
Patent Issued!
Dr. Maria Resendiz and Dr. Valles receiving our US Patent on “EMOTION PORTRAYAL DATABASE“!
Kaavya Defended!
Kaavya Ramarapu has successfully defended her thesis titled “Environmental Emotion Recognition for Children with ASD“
TXST STEM Conference!
Jamal Close and Alyssa Lopez will present their research poster at the 2025 TXST STEM Conference.
Jamal’s “Electrical Integration of Autonomous Agricultural Bot” is his work under the USDA’s AnimalCareBot Project
Alyssa’s “Developing Artificial Intelligence Models for Predicting Cattle Movement, Behavior, and Emotion,” and collaboration with Elysa Jimenez from the AnimalCareBot project, is her work from the USDA’s Leading Hispanics program.
Physics Colloquium
Dr. Valles was invited to talk at the Department of Physics Colloquium, and will present on “Neural Operators for Physics-Informed AI in Ultrawide Bandgap (UWBG) Semiconductor Research.”
When: April 2nd, 2025
Where: RFM-3219
Time: 5 – 6 PM
