Category: People

We want to welcome our research volunteers for this summer: Tabarek Hillan and Pema Sherpa from Texas State University, Daniel Marimekala from Farmington, Connecticut, and Evren Aslan from Austin, TX. Welcome all!

We want to welcome Armando Delgado from Los Angeles Valley College to our REU, who will also work on the “Utilizing AI to support conversation in individuals with ASD” under Dr. Berenice de la Cruz, Ph.D., from Texas A&M – San Antonio!

John Esparragoza from the University of Houston-Downtown will be working on one of our new projects, “Utilizing AI to support conversation in individuals with ASD,” under one of our new faculty mentors, Dr. Berenice de la Cruz, Ph.D., from Texas A&M-San Antonio. Welcome John!

Happy to welcome Mae Olsen from The University of Alabama to our REU and working on “Enhancing adaptive sports participation through technology-assisted physiological assessment for individuals with spinal cord injury” under the supervision of Dr. John Farrell III from our Department of Health & Human Performance

Adam Deinhardt from Brookdale Community College will also participate in the new REU project “Using AI and IoT to Build Smart Homes for Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder,” which is supervised by Dr. Ting Liu and Dr. Marcelo Carvalho. Welcome, Adam!

We want to welcome Devin Bowler from the University of Massachusetts Amherst to work on one of our new REU projects, “Using AI and IoT to Build Smart Homes for Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder,” under the supervision of Dr. Ting Liu and Dr. Marcelo Carvalho. Welcome!

Jorge Pineda from Austin College will participate in the initial efforts on one of our new projects at our REU site, “Advanced Object Recognition and Tracking using Computer Vision,” under the supervision of Dr. Semih Aslan. Welcome, Jorge!

We would like to welcome Annabella Wagner from Texas A&M University, who will be working on “Smart city firefighting autonomous data collection” under Dr. Damian Valles🦉

Gianna, Sam, and Dr. Resendiz reunited at the TSHA 69th Annual Convention & Exhibition in San Antonio!

We would like to welcome Michelle Su from Texas State University – Ingram School of Engineering, who will be working on “Enhancing Emotion Recognition in Autism Spectrum Disorder through Integrated Machine Learning Applications and Foundational Models” under Dr. Maria Resendiz, Dr. Ting Liu, and Dr. Damian Valles 🦉