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“
Category: IoT
FNWF’24 Panel
Dr. Valles is on the “Smart Cities in the Era of 5G and Beyond – An Example” panel at the 2024 IEEE Future Networks World Forum (FNWF) in Dubai, UAE.
Welcome Zaheen!
Zaheen Afroz Simin will join the group for her GRA and thesis work in the Sertainity-CIEDAR project starting this summer!
SD Best Project!
The Senior Design team (Firebot) won the Best Project Industry Choice at the Ingram School Senior Design Day.
IEEE AI-IoT Paper Accepted!
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).
SERTAINTY/TXST-CIEDAR
Dr. Valles is awarded the industry project contract from Sertainty/TXST-CIEDAR, “Sertainty UXP Technology Implementation in the Context of IoT and LoRaWAN Gateway Constructs.”
HiPE@SXSW2024
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
THRC HSS POSTER!
Welcome USDA Team!
HiPE’s collaboration with USDA’s AnimalCareBot Project at TXST welcomes the first cohort of research students: Rose Ochoa | Kevin C. Guerra | Jamal Close
USDA’s AnimalCareBot Grant
Dr. Valles is a Co-PD of the newly funded AnimalCareBot: Bridging the Gap between Emerging Technologies for Livestock Production and Education in Agricultural Sciences from the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) – National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA)