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  • 12-8-23: Dr. Valles is an SME for TxDOT & CIEDAR’s Advance Air Mobility contract.
  • 12-7-23: Dr. Valles’s co-authored collaborative paper “Development of an Augmented Reality Handwashing Tool for Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder” with Evan Smith was accepted to the 2024 IEEE CCWC.
  • 12-5-23: Dr. Valles’s co-authored collaborative paper titled “Early Prediction of Characteristic Compressive Strength of Concrete Based on Mix Proportions Using Modified Dimensional Analysis” with Nikhil Pawar was accepted to the 2024 IEEE CCWC
  • 11-25-23: Shafiqul Alam Khan has joined the group for his thesis research work.
  • 10-6-23: Alyssa Lopez will start her research under the USDA NextGen’s LEADING Hispanics under Dr. Valles’s mentorship
  • 9-20-23: Dr. Valles is one of the featured THRC Faculty Fellows at the TXST Press
  • 9-19-23: Dr. Valles is a Co-PI of the newly funded Scholars of Excellence in Engineering Design (SEED) from NSF-S-STEM program
  • 9-18-23: Dr. Valles is a Co-PI of the newly funded CAP: Expanding AI Curriculum and Infrastructure at Texas State University to Advance Interdisciplinary Research and Grow a Diverse AI Workforce from NSF-ExpandAI program
  • 9-15-23: 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)
  • 9-8-23: Saad Rafiq and Erich Ellsworth are featured with Dr. Valles on the DELL and NVIDIA workstation brief use case on the Smart Firefighting rover prototype.
  • 9-8-23: Welcome Dhadkan Shrestha, Saad Rafiq, and Daniyar Boztayev to HiPE in collaboration with THRC for the Smart Firefighting project utilizing AI and drones.
  • 9-4-23: HiPE and THRC welcome the Firebot Senior Design Team: Erich Ellsworth, Jaxon Castillo, Aidan McSpadden, and Tanner Ivey.
  • 9-1-23: Dr. Valles is officially a Faculty Fellow for Texas State University Translational Health Research Center (THRC).
  • 8-29-23: Dr. Valles is a Co-PD for a United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) – National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) funding project award for the AnimalCareBot: Bridging the Gap between Emerging Technologies for Livestock Production and Education in Agricultural Sciences.
  • 8-18-23: Dr. Valles’s collaboration work and poster, Is there gender bias in emotion identification?, was accepted at the 2023 SACNAS National Diversity in STEM (NDiSTEM) Conference in Portland, OR.
  • 8-10-23: Dr. Valles will be on the Digital 360 Summit’s Digital Roundtable webcast on Aug. 16th.
  • 6-26-23: Mohammad successfully defended his thesis
  • 6-10-23: Mohammad won the best paper for “An Advanced IoT Framework for Long Range Connectivity and Secure Data Transmission Leveraging LoRa and ASCON Encryption” at the IEEE World AI IoT Congress 2023 (AIIoT) in session Security for IoT.
  • 5-10-23: Gavin’s, Dylan’s, and Dr. Valles’ collaborative paper “Data Collection and Real-Time Facial Emotion Recognition in iOS Apps With CNN-Based Models” was accepted to the IEEE World AI IoT Congress 2023 (AIIoT).
  • 5-10-23: Adenrele Ishola‘s and Dr. Valles‘ paper, Enhancing Safety and Efficiency in Firefighting Operations via Deep Learning and Temperature Forecasting Modeling in Autonomous Units, was published in MDPI’s Sensors, Volume 23, Issue 10.
  • 5-5-23: Mohammad‘s paper “An Advanced IoT Framework for Long Range Connectivity and Secure Data Transmission Leveraging LoRa and ASCON Encryption” was accepted to the IEEE World AI IoT Congress 2023 (AIIoT).
  • 5-2-23: Sazida Islam‘s and Dr. Valles‘ paper titled Animal Species Recognition with Deep Convolutional Neural Networks from Ecological Camera Trap Images with Dr. Michael Forstner from Biology was published in MDPI’s Animals, Volume 13, Issue 9.
  • 4-5-23: Alex Little successfully defended his thesis!
  • 3-29-23: Joni McCawley and Gabriella Taverna will present their research poster on Emotion Recognition using Audio Input for Voice and Environmental Sounds at the TXST Data Analytics Showcase.
  • 3-29-23: Saad Rafiq and Erich Ellsworth will present their research poster on Smart City Firefighting Autonomous Data Collection at the TXST Data Analytics Showcase.
  • 3-29-23: Gavin Jackson and Dylan Hall will present their research poster on Face Emotion Recognition DL Development and App Adaptability at the TXST Data Analytics Showcase.
  • 3-29-23: Dr. Valles was invited to present a lightning talk on Machine Learning, IoT, Autonomous Driving, and AR to Respond to Fire Emergencies at the TXST Data Analytics Showcase.
  • 2-10-23: Dr. Valles’ co-authored collaborative paper titled “Wind Speed Forecasting for Designing Sustainable Wastewater Treatment Plants” with Shriyank Somvanshi, and et al. was accepted to the 2023 IEEE CCWC
  • 2-10-23: Dr. Valles’ co-authored collaborative paper titled “Forecast Analysis of Visibility for Airport Operations With Deep Learning Techniques” with Sabhasachi Saha was accepted to the 2023 IEEE CCWC
  • 2-9-23: Dr. Valles’ co-authored collaborative paper titled “Performance Analysis of TensorFlow2 Object Detection API Models for Engineering Site Surveillance Applications” with Dupri Grimes was accepted to the 2023 IEEE CCWC
  • 2-2-23: Daniyar Boztayev has joined the group to work on our Smart Firefighting Drone research work.
  • 2-2-23: Kaavya Sri Ramarapu has joined the group for her thesis research work.
  • 1-30-23: Dr. Valles’ co-authored collaborative paper titled “Classification Challenges and Analysis of Traffic Patterns for Highly Congested Areas in Central Texas” with Daniel Alonso and Eduardo Alonso was accepted to the 2023 IEEE CCWC
  • 1-26-23: Mohammad Nooruddin has joined the group for his thesis research work.