Damian Valles, PhD 🦉
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Damian Valles, PhD 🦉
@dvalles.bsky.social
Associate Professor - Electrical Engineering at TXST (@txst.bsky.social) : #HPC | #AI | #EmbeddedEdgeSystems | #Robotics | #XR

HiPE lab: @hipelab.bsky.social
Research Software Engineering in the Age of AI panel - with the #hpc OG Michael Heroux #SC25 #hpcignites
November 20, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Invited talks - Applications: @dimadamen.bsky.social and Trevor Wood #SC25 #hpcignites
November 20, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Trust, but Verify in HPC: Uncertainty for AI and Computing panel addressing how to trust your results and any research #SC25 #hpcignites
November 20, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Hardware Modularity for Practical Heterogeneous HPC panel with award winner John Shalf, room 241 #SC25 #hpcignites
November 19, 2025 at 4:37 PM
ACM Gordon Bell Finalists Presentations with Session Chairs Amanda Randles and Jack Dongarra #SC25 #hpcignites
November 18, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Quantum computing, certainty of q-bits…uncertainty where the conversion will be in the panel 🤔 #SC25 #hpcignites
November 17, 2025 at 11:36 PM
The morning walk to #SC25 was amazing, the gala is getting ready, tutorial in building agents was productive
November 16, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Building agents with @ianfoster42.bsky.social and his team. #SC25 tutorials, room 126
November 16, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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!
November 15, 2025 at 11:08 PM
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
October 30, 2025 at 2:51 PM
📢 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-...
August 23, 2025 at 3:40 PM
🚨 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...
August 21, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Congrats to the amazing EE grad class! Proud of the @hipelab.bsky.social current and former students on their biggest day!

👩‍🔧 Kaavya Sri Ramarapu – The engineer who mastered
🚁 Daniyar Boztayev – The drone meister
🐄 Jamal Close – The cattle meister
🎄 Joni McCawley – The one who brought Xmas to HiPE
May 10, 2025 at 12:21 AM
Huge thanks to the @hipelab.bsky.social HiPE Research Group team for an incredible Spring Dinner! Great conversations, company, and amazing work from Baxter, Elysia, Susan, Pawan, Alexandra, Isabela, Jillian, Kevin, Shafiqul, Kaavya, and Zaheen. 🙌 #Grateful #Teamwork
May 2, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Happy to have collaborated with Dr. Maria Resendiz and received our US Patent on “EMOTION PORTRAYAL DATABASE." We are continuing to help Autistic Children through the end-to-end #AI design process!

#patent #database #emotion #autism #txst
April 26, 2025 at 11:37 PM
I was invited to talk at the Department of Physics @txst.edu Colloquium and will present on “Neural Operators for Physics-Informed #AI in Ultrawide Bandgap (UWBG) Semiconductor Research.”

When: April 2nd, 2025
Where: RFM-3219
Time: 5 – 6 PM
March 12, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Fire Tech: Frontline Innovation for Resilient and Effective Firefighter Technology

healthresearch.txst.edu/thrc-events/...

Session 1: How Can Robotics, Drones, and AI Transform Fire Response?

March 26th, 12 PM – 1 PM CST

Register: txstate.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
March 12, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Our REU site was featured in the A&M-SA Today article “Summer Research Program Focuses on Interdisciplinary AI Research in Healthcare.“

news.tamusa.edu/2025/02/Summ...
February 19, 2025 at 1:55 PM
We are recruiting summer undergrad students!

Visit our application page for more information about our NSF-REU site summer research at @txst.bsky.social in partnership with Texas A&M University-San Antonio.

Application page: reuaihealth.wp.txstate.edu/application/
January 8, 2025 at 12:58 AM
Amazing #SC24 year! Great talks, tutorials, panels, and walking out with tons of research ideas 💡 Now waiting for St. Louis #SC25

#hpc #ai #research #engineering
November 22, 2024 at 5:28 PM
Amazing #SC24 year! Great talks, tutorials, panels, and walking out with tons of research ideas 💡 Now waiting for St. Louis #SC25
November 22, 2024 at 5:16 PM
One last #SC24 panel and aquarium meditation 🧘

“The paper is dead. Long live the paper? How LLMs changed the field”
November 21, 2024 at 8:30 PM
I kinda want to do this….
November 20, 2024 at 6:00 PM
November 20, 2024 at 6:00 PM
Catching these beauties at the #SC24 Art of #HPC Display
November 20, 2024 at 6:00 PM