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2020

  • 12-18-20: Thesis Research Support Fellowship awarded to Homayra Alam & Mahbubur Rahman for the 2020-2021 Academic Year.
  • 12-17-20: Dr. Valles’s co-authored abstract “A Deep Learning Time-Series Forecasting of Disaster Relief Donations for Food Banks”  has been accepted and invited to a full paper for the IISE 2021.
  • 12-7-20: Dr. Valles has been invited to serve as an ACM Graduate Posters Committee Member in the Technical Program for Supercomputing (SC21).
  • 10-30-20: Shafinaz successfully defended her thesis!
  • 10-30-20: Sazida successfully defended her thesis!
  • 10-30-20: Rezwan successfully defended his thesis!
  • 10-22-20: Purvesh successfully defended his thesis!
  • 10-9-20: Rezwan’s paper received 3rd place at The IEEE Intermountain Engineering, Technology, and Computing Conference (i-ETC) in the Computing Conference Track.
  • 10-8-20: Miguel’s paper titled “An Initial Julia Simulation Approach to Material Handling Operations from Motion Captured Data” was accepted to the 2020 IEEE Information Technology, Electronics, and Mobile Communication Conference (IEMCON-2020). [To be presented virtually in Nov. 2020].
  • 10-1-20: Geovanni & Dr. Valles on the Harnessing Big Data interview for the Texas State Univesity Big Ideas Virtual Event!
  • 9-11-20: Shafinaz’s paper titled “Performance Analysis and Evaluation of LSTM and GRU Architectures for Houston Toad and Crawfish Frog Call Detection” was accepted to the 2020 IEEE Ubiquitous Computing, Electronics and Mobile Communication Conference (UEMCON-2020). [To be presented virtually in Oct. 2020].
  • 9-9-20: Purvesh’s paper titled “Backbone Neural Network Design of Single Shot Detector from RGB-D Images for Object Detection” was accepted to the 2020 IEEE Ubiquitous Computing, Electronics, and Mobile Communication Conference (UEMCON-2020). [To be presented virtually in Oct. 2020].
  • 8-21-20: Dr. Valles and Geo’s co-authored paper titled “Comparison of Inverse Kinematics Algorithms for Digital Twin Industry 4.0 Applications”  has been accepted to the IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (IEEE-SMC 2020). [To be presented virtually in Oct. 2020].
  • 8-20-20: Purvesh and Rezwan were recognized for their Academic Performance Excellence over Two Years Award during the AY2019-2020 by The Ingram School Graduate Program
  • 8-10-20: Uma’s paper titled “Vehicle Type and Color Classification and Detection for Amber and Silver Alert Emergencies Using Machine Learning” was accepted to the 2020 IEEE International IoT, Electronics, and Mechatronics Conference (IEMTRONICS). [To be presented in September 2020].
  • 8-7-2020: Rezwan finished his mentoring internship this week with Affectiva’s EMPath2020 Program.
  • 8-6-2020: Purvesh has been accepted to return to the Student Volunteer Program (SCinet) for the Virtual SC20 as a SCinet Student Volunteer.
  • 8-6-2020: Tamima Rashid receives the Texas State Graduate College & Bobcats to Bobcats Scholarships for the 2020-2021 Academic Year.
  • 8-6-2020: Homayra Alam and Mahbubur Rahman receive the Bobcats to Bobcats Scholarships for the 2020-2021 Academic Year.
  • 8-5-2020: Dr. Valles has been invited to be part of the Digital 360 Summit – Smart Factory & Industry 4.0 Panel.
  • 7-14-20: HiPE Group is now on Twitter! (@GroupHipe)
  • 7-10-20: Rezwan, Inzamam, and Dr. Valles co-authored paper “Emotions and Emoticons: Facial Expression Recognition App for Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD),” was accepted to the 2020 ASHA (American Speech-Language-Hearing Association) Convention.
  • 6-22-20: Rezwan and Dr. Valles will present with Dr. Resendiz at the 2020 Bobcat Pride Day – “App for People with Autism Spectrum Disorder”  in September at Texas State University. [Canceled due to COVID-19]
  • 6-15-20: Texas State’s Student Achievement article “International graduate student conducts research for a multi-modal emotion recognition model” highlights Rezwan’s thesis research work.
  • 6-12-20: Dr. Valles’s co-authored paper titled “A Digital Twin Framework for Real-time Analysis and Feedback of Repetitive Work in Manual Material Handling Industry”  has been accepted to the Winter Simulation Conference 2020. [To be presented in Orlando in Dec. 2020].
  • 5-4-20: HiPE group highlighted by TXST Newsroom article “Engineering students support research remotely and adapt to remote learning.”
  • 4-1-20: Sazida’s paper titled “Herpetofauna Species Classification from Images with Deep Neural Network” was accepted to the 2020 IEEE Intermountain Engineering, Technology, and Computing Conference (i-ETC). [To be presented virtually in Oct. 2020].
  • 4-1-20: Shafinaz’s paper titled “A Houston Toad Call Detection Initial Approach Using Gated Recurrent Units for Conservational Efforts” was accepted to the 2020 IEEE Intermountain Engineering, Technology, and Computing Conference (i-ETC). [To be presented virtually in Oct. 2020].
  • 4-1-20: Rezwan’s paper titled “A Speech Emotion Recognition Solution Based on Support Vector Machine for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder to Help Identify Human Emotions” was accepted to the 2020 IEEE Intermountain Engineering, Technology, and Computing Conference (i-ETC). [To be presented virtually in Oct. 2020].
  • 3-5-20: Dr. Valles’s co-authored paper titled “Cross-cultural engineering skill development at an international engineering summer boot camp”  has been accepted to the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) annual conference. [To be presented in Montreal, Quebec, in June 2020].
  • 3-3-20: Adenrele Ishola has joined the group for his thesis research work
  • 2-28-20: Rezwan Matin won the 3MT (3-minute thesis) Competition at TXST!!
  • 2-24-20: Uma Kamatchi K. Pillai to present her thesis research poster “Vehicle Colors and Types Detection for Amber and Silver Alert Emergencies Using Machine Learning” at the 2020 WiSE Conference at TXST.
  • 2-24-20: Dr. Valles collaborated on a research poster titled “Exploring the Contagion Effect of Social Media on Mass Shootings” to be presented at the 2020 WiSE Conference at TXST.
  • 2-24-20: Geovanni collaborated for a research poster titled “Analysis of Human Motion and Physical Fatigue of Manual Material Handling Tasks Using a Digital Twin Framework in Industry 4.0” to be presented at the 2020 WiSE Conference at TXST.
  • 2-11-20: Dr. Valles to speak at the IEEE 6th World Forum on the Internet of Things for the Computing and Information Processing Track in New Orleans, Louisiana. [Cancelled due to COVID-19]
  • 2-11-20: Homayra Alam has joined the group for her thesis research work
  • 1-31-20: Tamima Rashid has joined the group for her thesis research work
  • 1-24-20: Miguel Hernandez has joined the group for undergraduate research work in HPC.
  • 1-28-20: Fairuz S. Saeed has joined the group for her thesis research work
  • 1-24-20: Miguel Hernandez has joined the group for undergraduate research work in HPC.
  • 1-17-20: Thomas Paveglio has joined the group for undergraduate research work in Computer Vision+Machine Learning.
  • 1-8-20: Dr. Valles was awarded Best Presenter for the paper “Identification of Wild Species in Texas from Camera-trap Images Using Deep Neural Network for Conservation Monitoring” in the Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning session track at IEEE-CCWC 2020, UNLV.
  • 1-8-20: 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 at IEEE-CCWC 2020, UNLV.
  • 1-6-20: Mahbubur Rahman has joined the group for his thesis research work