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The High-Performance Engineering (HiPE) #research group at @txstengineering focusing in #HPC | #AI | #EmbeddedEdgeSystems | #Robotics | #Semiconductors

Texas State University
Joined July 2020
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Joya Debnath and Md Masrur Hossain Rakin's paper, “Physics-Informed Neural Networks for Strain-Engineered Bandgap Prediction in the Ultrawide-Bandgap Spinel Oxide ZnGa₂O₄,” was accepted for the 2026 #IEEE 17th Annual UEMCON. #deeplearning #uwbg #research #txst
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Prashant's paper, “Performance Dynamics of #DeepLearning Model Training on Centralized #HPC Resources,” was accepted for the 2026 #IEEE 17th Annual Ubiquitous Computing, Electronics & Mobile Communication Conference (UEMCON) #benchmark #ai #hpc #research #txst
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Utsav's, Nathan's, and Rakin's paper, "Establishing a Measured Sensing and Motion-Classification Baseline for a ROS2-Based Animal Care Mobile Robot," was accepted for the 2026 IEEE 17th Annual UEMCON. #engineering #embedded #robotics #research #txst
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Franceli Gonzalez has joined the HiPE team and will be working on the computer vision components for detection/classification/tracking in our USDA AnimalCareBot project! #ai #computervision #cattle #engineering #research #txst
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Welcome Goli Rahnama Moghaddam, to our Smart Firefighting team! 🚒🤖 An @txst Electrical Engineering student and H-LSAMP Scholar, Goli will work on rover + computer vision operations for autonomous emergency-response systems. #HLSAMP #AI #Robotics #ComputerVision #TXST
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Welcome, Joya Rani Debnath, to our research team! ⚛️💻 An M.S. Electrical Engineering student at @txst, Joya will work on computational modeling and characterization of UWBG semiconductor materials for next-generation electronic devices. #UWBG #Semiconductors #HPC #TXST
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Welcome, Sourove Roy, to our research team! ⚛️💻 An M.S. Electrical Engineering student at @txst, Sourove will work on N-Body PNO methods for UWBG materials to predict material characterizations. #UWBG #Semiconductors #AI #TXST
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A quick HiPE summer dinner to celebrate our work and accomplishments over the Texas heat. Congratulations on defending your research thesis work to: > Erich > Rakin > Sakif Best of luck to Jay Jang and Simin in the upcoming Qual Exam! M.I.A. and thanks to Dr. Rashik Shadman
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Congratulations to Erich Ellsworth (former TXST REU AI+Health alum) on successfully defending his thesis work today! Amazing research in "A ROS 2 and Gazebo-Based Reinforcement Learning Framework for Autonomous Thermal Hazard Navigation" #ai #smartfirefighting #engineering #txst
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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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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
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Jay Jang has been awarded the graduate scholarship for the 2026-2027 academic year from Texas State University. Congratulations!
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Prashant Panta presented at the TXST Undergraduate Research Symposium on his work “Benchmarking Deep Learning Training Workloads on the LEAP2 HPC System: CPU vs. GPU Performance Characterization.” #ai #hpc #benchmarking #research #txst
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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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Erich’s paper “Autonomous Exploration of Complex Industrial Environments Using an IMPALA-Derived Convolutional Encoder and PPO” was accepted to the 2026 IEEE World AI IoT Congress (AIIoT) in Seattle, WA. Congratulations!!! 👏👏👏👏👏 #research #ai #AUV #RL #engineering #txst
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Our #USDA AnimalCareBot team had a strong game in displaying our project, interacting w/the community, and giving away some amazing toys at the S.T.E.A.M event: ⭐ Jillian G ⭐ Alexandra G ⭐ Isabela W ⭐ Pawan P ⭐ Susan L ⭐ Bria B #outreach #animalscience #engineering #txst
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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 AIIoT in Seattle, WA. #semiconductors #ai #research #txst
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Shafiqul Alam Khan’s journal article “Conquering the Urban Firefighting Challenge: A Deep Q-Network Approach for Autonomous UAV Navigation” has been published in @inventions_MDPI. Thanks for the support from @THRCtxst! #research #agentAI #drones #engineering #txst
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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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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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