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

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

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.

Olivia Laurel has joined the group to work to collaborate on the USDA-sponsored project AnimalCareBot at Texas State University.

Zaheen Afroz Simin will join the group for her GRA and thesis work in the Sertainity-CIEDAR project starting this summer!

Bryce L. Raybon joined the group to work for the rest of the semester on the initial stages of the thermo-resistant materials for the rover and drones in collaboration with the Advanced Composites Lab.

Dylan Hall’s, Gavin Jackson’s, and Alyssa Lopez’s research posters were accepted to the TXST STEM Conference 2024
HiPE’s collaboration with USDA’s AnimalCareBot Project at TXST welcomes the first cohort of research students: Rose Ochoa | Kevin C. Guerra | Jamal Close
Shafiqul Alam Khan has joined the group for his thesis research work. Learn more at HiPE – people

Alyssa Lopez will start her Animal AI Detection research under the USDA NextGen’s LEADING Hispanics under Dr. Valles’s mentorship. Learn more at HiPE – people

Dell’s and NVIDIA’s workstation brief of HiPE’s work on the Smart Firefighting rover prototype featuring Erich and Saad.