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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Jay Jang has been awarded the graduate scholarship for the 2026-2027 academic year from Texas State University. Congratulations!

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

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

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

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