Dr. Damian Valles is an Ingram School of Engineering Electrical Engineering Associate Professor at Texas State University. He focuses on high-performance computing (HPC), machine learning (ML), and embedded system implementations under the High-Performance Engineering (HiPE) research group. Dr. Valles received his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. from the University of Texas at El Paso from the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, focusing on reconfigurable processors and HPC research.