RECOGNITIONS
2025
- Best Presenter Award for the paper “Multi-Modal Emotion Temporal Environment Facial Classification to Help Children with ASD” in the Next Generation Artificial Intelligence session track at IEEE UEMCON 2025, IBM Louis V. Gerstner, Jr. Center for Learning, New York.
- Best Presenter Award for the paper “Forecasting Sea Water Level Using Deep Learning Models for Enhanced Coastal Flood Management and Mitigation” in the AI and Deep Learning session track at IEEE UEMCON 2025, IBM Louis V. Gerstner, Jr. Center for Learning, New York.
- Best Poster 1st Place Award for “Fension-Tension Fatigue of High-Temperature Thermoset Composites in Fire Drone Application” in collaboration with Rahul Sheley, Pratik Karkhanis, and Dr. Jitendra Tate at the 2025 Society for the Advancement of Material and Process Engineering (SAMPE) Conference and Exhibition in Indianapolis, Indiana.
- Faculty Fellowship for the Texas State Center for Analytics and Data Science (TXST CADS), FY2025.
2024
- Best Presenter Award for the paper “Fully Auto-Regressive Multi-Model Large Language Model for Contextual Emotion Recognition” in the Big Data, Data Management and AI session track at IEEE UEMCON 2024, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, New York.
- Best Presenter Award for the paper “Design of Autonomous Rover for Firefighter Rescue: Integrating Deep Learning With ROS2” in the Neural Networks, Robotics, and Machine Vision session track at IEEE AIIoT 2024, Seattle, WA.
- Best Presenter Award for the paper “Dataset Enlargement with Generative Adversarial Neural Networks” in the Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning session track at IEEE AIIoT 2024, Seattle, WA.
- Best Presenter Award for the paper “Development of an Augmented Reality Handwashing Tool for Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder” in the Big Data, Data Management and Analytics; AI session track at IEEE-CCWC 2024, UNLV.
2023
- Faculty Fellowship for the Translational Health Research Center (THRC) at Texas State University, FY2023.
- Best Paper Award at the 2023 IEEE World AI IoT Congress (IEEE – AIIoT’23), Author: Mohammad Nooruddin, Co-Authors: Dr. Valles, Seattle, WA, USA, 2023.
2022
- Best Poster Award at the American Statistical Association Conference on Statistical Practice 2022, Authors: T. Stapleton, R. Fuentes, S. R. Jeter, Co-Authors: Dr. R. Rolfe, Dr. D. Knudson, Dr. Valles, & Dr. F. Mendez, New Orleans, LA, USA, 2022.
2021
- Best Paper Award at The 12th IEEE Annual Ubiquitous Computing, Electronics & Mobile Communication Conference (IEEE – UEMCON’21), Author: Md. Syadus Sefat, Co-Authors: Dr. Md. Shahjahan, Mahbubur Rahman, & Dr. Valles, New York, NY, USA, 2021.
- Best Presenter Award for the paper “An Audio Processing Approach Using Ensemble Learning for Speech-Emotion Recognition for Children with ASD” in the Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning session track at the IEEE-AIIoT Congress 2021, Seattle, WA, USA.
2020
- Best Presenter Award for the paper titled “A Victim Detection Approach for Burning Building Sites Using Convolutional Neural Networks” in the Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Embedded Systems session track at IEEE-CCWC 2020, UNLV.
- Best Presenter Award 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.
2018
- Best Paper Award at The 9th IEEE Annual Information Technology, Electronics & Mobile Communication Conference (IEMCON’18), Author: Bikram DasGupta, Co-Authors: Dr. Valles & Dr. McClellan, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, 2018
- Outstanding Achievement Award in research contributions to the Field of Cyber-Physical Systems at The 2018 World Congress in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, and Applied Computing (CSCE’18), Las Vegas, NV, 2018
- Best Paper Award at The 8th Annual IEEE Computing and Communication Workshop and Conference (CCWC’18), Author: Riana Freedman, Co-Author: Dr. Valles, University of Nevada Las Vegas, Las Vegas, NV, 2018