Damian Valles, PhD 🦉

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

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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

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

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

Time to nerd out! Welcome!

#research #engineering #PhDLife #ai #Semiconductors #txst

Welcome to the team!

#research #engineering #ai #Semiconductors #txst

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

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

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

Invited talks - Applications: @dimadamen.bsky.social and Trevor Wood #SC25 #hpcignites

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

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

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

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

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

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

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!

Roll up sleeves!

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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

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

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Welcome to the team!

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Welcome aboard!!!!

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📢 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-...

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

🚨 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...

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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