Md Sakif Uddin Khan is joining the HiPE group for his thesis work in USDA’s AnimalCareBot’s Transformer-Based Vision Classification and Segmentation Modeling. Welcome!

Md Sakif Uddin Khan is joining the HiPE group for his thesis work in USDA’s AnimalCareBot’s Transformer-Based Vision Classification and Segmentation Modeling. Welcome!

Kaavya Sri Ramarapu‘s paper “Multi-Modal Emotion Temporal Environment Facial Classification to Help Children with ASD” was accepted to the 2025 IEEE 16th Annual Ubiquitous Computing, Electronics, and Mobile Communications Conference (UEMCON–2025), IBM Learning Center, Armonk, New York.

Kaavya Ramarapu has successfully defended her thesis titled “Environmental Emotion Recognition for Children with ASD“

Fire Tech: Frontline Innovation for Resilient and Effective Firefighter Technology –
Session 1: How Can Robotics, Drones, and AI Transform Fire Response?
March 26th 12 PM – 1 PM CST
Register: https://txstate.zoom.us/meeting/register/Tf_6H_-1RKSnDAna-cnMmg#/registration

Dr. Valles’s NSF-REU was renewed in collaboration with Texas A&M-San Antonio, “REU Site: Undergraduate Research Experiences in Artificial Intelligence, Data Analytics, and Mixed Reality for Smart and Connected Health“
Gavin Jackson’s paper, “Dataset Enlargement With Generative Adversarial Neural Networks,” has been accepted to the 2024 IEEE World AI IoT Congress (AIIoT).
Saad Rafiq and Erich Ellsworth‘s collaboration paper with HiPE Alums Adenrele Ishola, Oscar Resendiz, and Susmitha Haripriya Varanasi, “Design of Autonomous Rover for Firefighter Rescue: Integrating Deep Learning With ROS2,” has been accepted to the 2024 IEEE World AI IoT Congress (AIIoT).
The HiPE research group Smart Firefighting team is heading to SXSW through the TXST Corporate & Foundation Partnerships Innovation Lab event. We will showcase our Smart Firefighting project in partnership with Translational Health Research Center!
Link: SXSW 2024 Innovation Lab

HiPE’s collaboration with USDA’s AnimalCareBot Project at TXST welcomes the first cohort of research students: Rose Ochoa | Kevin C. Guerra | Jamal Close