Our NSF-S-STEM paper “Sowing the SEEDs (Scholars of Excellence in Engineering Design): Starting the SEED NSF S-STEM Program at Texas State University,” was accepted to the 2025 ASEE Annual Conference, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

HiPE Research Group — Ingram School of Engineering
Our NSF-S-STEM paper “Sowing the SEEDs (Scholars of Excellence in Engineering Design): Starting the SEED NSF S-STEM Program at Texas State University,” was accepted to the 2025 ASEE Annual Conference, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
I’m part of the “Smart Cities in the Era of 5G and Beyond – An Example” panel at the 2024 IEEE Future Networks World Forum (FNWF) in Dubai, UAE.
Talk “Financial Frontiers: The Economic Impact of AI-Enhanced Emergency Response Systems” was accepted to the 1st Artificial Intelligence in Finance Conference (AIIFC).
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.
Industry panel invitation on “Certification and Challenges for Autonomy in Safety-Critical Systems, with a Bias Towards Autonomy in Space” to the IEEE RTSS 2022.
Invited to talk at the IEEE 8th World Forum Internet of Things – discussion on “IoT and Technologies to Respond to Fire Emergencies,” Vertical Topic: Computing and Processing.
Our panel on “The Future of Smart Ecosystem Empowered by IoT Collaborative Technologies” was accepted and will be presented at the IEEE GLOBECOM 2022.
Our panel on “Agriculture in the Age of Advanced Technology” was accepted and will be presented at the IEEE Future Networks World Forum 2022.
Discussing resilient health research topics at #HSS22. Join me and Texas State University’s Translational Health Research Center on April 8th to learn more about our research: “Human Expression Recognition Deep Learning Models to Help Children with ASD Identify Emotions.”
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.