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HiPE Research Group @ TXST @hipelab.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

A few weeks late (World Cup and other summer duties), but we want to congratulate Md Masrur Hossain Rakin on successfully defending his thesis "Strain-Bandgap Modeling for Diamond Using #PINNs"! Thank you to all involved (the village) in this #semiconductor & #ai work #txst #research #engineering

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HiPE Research Group @ TXST @hipelab.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

We want to congratulate Md Sakif Uddin Khan on successfully defending his thesis last week, titled "A Transfer-based Perception & Analytics Framework for Cattle Behavior Analysis Across Diverse Ranch Environments!" #txst #research #engineering #animalscience #ai #computervision

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HiPE Research Group @ TXST @hipelab.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Jay Jang has been awarded the graduate scholarship for the 2026-2027 academic year from Texas State University. Congratulations!

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Damian Valles, PhD 🦉 @dvalles.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Another successful Spring semester for the @hipelab.bsky.social, and an amazing dinner celebration for all students, staff, and significant others who have contributed to each research project! Thank you all! 👏 👏 👏 👏 #research #ai #robotics #uwbg #engineering #txst

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HiPE Research Group @ TXST @hipelab.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

Sakif’s paper “A Transformer-Based Detection and Instance Segmentation Pipeline for Cross-Domain Cattle Monitoring” was accepted to the 2026 IEEE World AI IoT Congress (AIIoT) in Seattle, WA. #ai #deeplearning #transformers #engineering #ag #cattle #research #txst

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Damian Valles, PhD 🦉 @dvalles.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Halfway through a thesis with success...boom! 💥 💥 💥

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Damian Valles, PhD 🦉 @dvalles.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

Our stuffed cows and robot kits were a hit! #toys

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HiPE Research Group @ TXST @hipelab.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

Utku’s, Rakin’s, Dr. Shadman’s, and Dr. Valles’s collaborative paper “Machine Learning for Bandgap Regression and Classification in Strained Diamond from First-Principles Descriptors” was accepted to the 2026 IEEE World AI IoT Congress (AIIoT) in Seattle, WA. #semiconductors #ai #research #txst

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HiPE Research Group @ TXST @hipelab.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Shafiqul Alam Khan’s journal article “Conquering the Urban Firefighting Challenge: A Deep Q-Network Approach for Autonomous UAV Navigation” has been published on @mdpiopenaccess.bsky.social Inventions. Thanks for the support from TXST THRC! #research #agentAI #drones #engineering #txst

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HiPE Research Group @ TXST @hipelab.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

The group was part of Community Day for the 60th anniversary of the College of Science and Engineering, Texas State University! Thanks to all the folks who visited our lab and enjoyed interacting with us and our research. #robotics #ai #celebrating #research #txst

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HiPE Research Group @ TXST @hipelab.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

Our USDA AnimalCareBot work was presented at the 4th Annual Texas State University STEM Conference. Amazing work from all the students in the team, and facing questions throughout the day! 👏 👏 👏 👏 #engineering #ag #ai #mechanical #electrical #research #txst

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HiPE Research Group @ TXST @hipelab.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

Susan Ledezma will present her work on "Developing Artificial Intelligence Models for Predicting Stress in Cattle Behavior" at the 2026 TXST STEM Conference: From Lab to Landscape: Building a Bigger, Better Texas. genstem.cose.txst.edu/txst-stem-co... #ai #yolo #detection #ag #research #txst

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HiPE Research Group @ TXST @hipelab.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

Md Sakif Uddin Khan will present his work on “Computer Vision Framework for Identity-Aware Cattle Behavior Monitoring in Ranch Systems” at the 2026 TXST STEM Conference: genstem.cose.txst.edu/txst-stem-co... #deeplearning #CV #ai #engineering #research #txst

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HiPE Research Group @ TXST @hipelab.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

Nathan Charles and Utsav Adhikari will present their work on “ROS2 GPS-based Autonomous Vehicle Navigation in the Agriculture and Livestock Space” at the 2026 TXST STEM Conference: From Lab to Landscape: genstem.cose.txst.edu/txst-stem-co... #ros2 #AUV #GPS #engineering #research #txst

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HiPE Research Group @ TXST @hipelab.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

Jillian, Kevin, Isabela, Alexandra, and Pawan will present their work on “Mechanical Design of an Autonomous Robot for Cattle Monitoring” at the 2026 TXST STEM Conference: genstem.cose.txst.edu/txst-stem-co... #mechanical #design #autonomous #research #engineering #txst

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HiPE Research Group @ TXST @hipelab.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

Josh Del Bosque joined our group in the USDA’s Mobile Robot for AnimalCareBot project. Welcome! animalbot.wp.txstate.edu #engineering #robotics #UAV #research #txst

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Damian Valles, PhD 🦉 @dvalles.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Welcome to the team! 🎇 🎇 🎇 🎇 🎇

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Damian Valles, PhD 🦉 @dvalles.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Physics, keyboard, and a good monitor...possible Wifi...let's get to work! ⚛️ ⌨️ 🖥️ 🛜

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Damian Valles, PhD 🦉 @dvalles.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

USDA team was featured in the new #txst marketing “Each and Every One.” Congrats to each and every student who has been part of this project! Video:https://youtu.be/1o2rFx6It60?si=kaHJZjWE0TEL7IUz Project: animalbot.wp.txstate.edu #research #engineering #agriculture #animalscience #robotics #ai

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Damian Valles, PhD 🦉 @dvalles.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

Come say "Hello!" and a Carbon-based LLM will reply to you.

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Damian Valles, PhD 🦉 @dvalles.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

Fun research: Hardware on steroids!! Welcome! 💪💪💪💪

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Damian Valles, PhD 🦉 @dvalles.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

Happy Holidays & Happy New Year from the @hipelab.bsky.social at @txst.edu. Thanks again to the great team of students throughout the year! Here’s to more breakthroughs (and fewer bugs) in 2026. #TXST #engineering #research #AI #HPC

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Damian Valles, PhD 🦉 @dvalles.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

Wondering if she jumped into the San Marcos River...🤔

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Damian Valles, PhD 🦉 @dvalles.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

Proud of this group and everything you’ve pushed forward this semester. Everyone here reflects late nights, challenging problems, and much persistence. Thank you all for your work, your ideas, and your patience with the chaos of research. Excited to see where you take things next. 👏 👏 👏 👏 👏 👏 👏

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Damian Valles, PhD 🦉 @dvalles.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

Research Software Engineering in the Age of AI panel - with the #hpc OG Michael Heroux #SC25 #hpcignites

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Damian Valles, PhD 🦉 @dvalles.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

Trust, but Verify in HPC: Uncertainty for AI and Computing panel addressing how to trust your results and any research #SC25 #hpcignites

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Damian Valles, PhD 🦉 @dvalles.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

Hardware Modularity for Practical Heterogeneous HPC panel with award winner John Shalf, room 241 #SC25 #hpcignites

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Damian Valles, PhD 🦉 @dvalles.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

ACM Gordon Bell Finalists Presentations with Session Chairs Amanda Randles and Jack Dongarra #SC25 #hpcignites

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Damian Valles, PhD 🦉 @dvalles.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

Quantum computing, certainty of q-bits…uncertainty where the conversion will be in the panel 🤔 #SC25 #hpcignites

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Damian Valles, PhD 🦉 @dvalles.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

The morning walk to #SC25 was amazing, the gala is getting ready, tutorial in building agents was productive

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Damian Valles, PhD 🦉 @dvalles.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

Building agents with @ianfoster42.bsky.social and his team. #SC25 tutorials, room 126

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Damian Valles, PhD 🦉 @dvalles.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

Annual pilgrimage to Supercomputing #SC25. Reflection of my first visit #SC07 as a student: I’ve moved up to business class now. Maybe first class next year ✈️ Have fun all FLOPS ppl!

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Damian Valles, PhD 🦉 @dvalles.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

Roll up sleeves! 👏 👏 👏 👏

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Damian Valles, PhD 🦉 @dvalles.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

At College Station for the 2025 Texas Semiconductor Summit with the all-stars: Dr Ariful Haque, Dr Dinusha Herath Mudiyanselage, Dr Ming-Hsun Lee, and Dr Dhanu Chettri. Many thanks to Div of Research - Materials Application Research Center (MARC)! #semiconductors #uwbg #engineering #research #txst

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Damian Valles, PhD 🦉 @dvalles.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

Hard work ----> Paid off! Congratulations! 👏 👏 👏 👏

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Damian Valles, PhD 🦉 @dvalles.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

Welcome to the team! 👏👏👏👏👏

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Damian Valles, PhD 🦉 @dvalles.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

Welcome aboard!!!! 👏 👏 👏 👏 👏

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Damian Valles, PhD 🦉 @dvalles.bsky.social · 23/08/2025

📢 Recruiting 2 PhD students (start Jan 2026)! Work on NSF-funded research in AI for UWBG semiconductor processes. ✅ MS in ECE/CS/related (thesis required) ✅ Publications in applied AI ✅ Research + mentoring focus 🌐 hipe.wp.txstate.edu/phd-student-...

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HiPE Research Group @ TXST @hipelab.bsky.social · 23/08/2025

Erich Ellsworth has rejoined the HiPE research group for his thesis research work. Welcome back!

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Damian Valles, PhD 🦉 @dvalles.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

🚨 Postdoc Opportunity 🚨 Texas State University is recruiting a Postdoctoral Research Fellow (start Jan 2026) for NSF-funded work on AI modeling in ultra-wide bandgap (UWBG) semiconductor processes. Full description: hipe.wp.txstate.edu/post-doc-pos...

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HiPE Research Group @ TXST @hipelab.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

Dr. @dvalles.bsky.social collaborative papers, “Simulation-Based Smart Home Architecture for Autism Support Using CSI-Based Movement Detection” and “IoT for Autism: Analyzing Motor Behaviors in Virtual Environments Using Visual Data,” were accepted to REUNS 2025 in IEEE MASS 2025, Chicago, USA.

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