Faculty Profiles

Dr. Damian Valles Molina

Associate Professor at Ingram School of Engineering, College of Science & Engineering

Member, CoSE 60th Anniversary Committee. September 2025 - Present.
Editor, MDPI-Sensors, Special Issue: Novel Technologies and Applications for Internet of Things. January 2025 - Present.
University Mentor, Ingram School of Engineering. January 2025 - Present.
Chair, IT Oversight Committee. September 2024 - Present.
Reviewer / Referee, MPDI Journal - Entropy. March 2024 - Present.
Reviewer / Referee, American Society for Engineering Education. September 2023 - Present.
Reviewer / Referee, Springer's Journal of Supercomputing. October 2022 - Present.
Reviewer / Referee, MPDI Journal - Applied Science. June 2022 - Present.
Reviewer / Referee, MPDI Journal - Sensors. September 2021 - Present.
Reviewer / Referee, MPDI Journal - Brain Sciences. September 2021 - Present.
Reviewer / Referee, IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Computing. May 2021 - Present.
Reviewer / Referee, IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems. March 2021 - Present.
Reviewer / Referee, PLOS ONE Open Access Journal. February 2020 - Present.
Reviewer / Referee, IEEE Transactions in Cybernetics. February 2020 - Present.
Reviewer / Referee, IEEE Open Access Journal. August 2019 - Present.
Volunteer, IEEE Central Texas Section Meetings. 2017 - Present.

Participant, Spring Commencement. 2025.
Participant, Summer Commencement. 2025.
Reviewer / Referee, 2025 IEEE International Conference on Future Machine Learning and Data Science (FMLDS2025). July 2025 - September 2025.
Member, EE Graduate Recruitment at the TAPIA Conference 2025. September 9, 2025 - September 12, 2025.
Member, Search Committee. April 2025 - August 2025.
Member, Search Committee. April 2025 - August 2025.
Member, Supercomputing 25 Technical Program Panels Committee Member. January 2025 - July 2025.
Reviewer / Referee, XVII Congreso Mexicano de Inteligencia Artificial. March 2025 - May 2025.
Member, Personnel Committee - Ingram School of Engineering. September 2024 - May 2025.
Member, Principal Investigators (PI) Council. September 2023 - May 2025.
Member, CoSE Postdoctoral Development Working Group. February 2023 - May 2025.
Member, EE Ph.D. Program Development. September 2024 - April 2025.
Member, EE Ph.D. Admission Committee. September 2024 - April 2025.
Member, Search Committee. September 2024 - April 2025.
Member, Teaching Peer Review. February 2025.

University Mentor, H-LSAMP Scholars Program Faculty Mentoring. January 2018 - December 2024.
Member, Teaching Peer Review. October 2024.
Member, Teaching Peer Review. October 2024.
Technical Committee Member, The 15th IEEE Annual Ubiquitous Computing, Electronics, & Mobile Communications Conference (UEMCON 2024). August 2024 - October 2024.
Program Committee Member, IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (BIBM) 2024. August 2024 - October 2024.
Faculty Advisor, Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers (SHPE). August 2019 - September 2024.
Technical Committee Member, IEEE 5th World AI IoT Congress. February 2024 - May 2024.
Member, Search Committee. November 2023 - May 2024.
Member, Research Selection Committee. September 2023 - May 2024.
Member, Teaching Peer Review. April 2024.
Technical Committee Member, IEEE CCWC 2024. October 2023 - January 2024.

Member, Search Committee. June 2023 - December 2023.
Technical Committee Member, IEEE UEMCON 2023. August 2023 - November 2023.
Member, Presidential Commission on the Run to R1. September 2022 - September 2023.
Member, EE Ph.D. Proposal Writing Team. June 2023 - August 2023.
Chair, EE Ph.D. Feasibility Research. March 2023 - June 2023.
Technical Committee Member, IEEE 2023 World AI IoT Congress (AIIoT). November 2022 - June 2023.
Chair, Research Selection Committee. November 2022 - May 2023.
Member, Search Committee. October 2022 - April 2023.
Member, Search Committee. October 2022 - April 2023.

Faculty Facilitator, The GRADS MentorSHPE Groups. October 2022 - December 2022.
University Mentor, ASPIRE Undergraduate Research. August 2022 - December 2022.
Technical Committee Member, IEEE UEMCON 2022. June 2022 - October 2022.
Technical Committee Member, IEEE IEMCON 2022. June 2022 - October 2022.
University Mentor, CoSE Teaching Workshop. August 2022.
Chair, Research Selection Committee. December 2021 - August 2022.
Member, Recruiting, Graduation, Career Fair Events. November 2021 - August 2022.
Reviewer / Referee, 15th IEEE Dallas Circuits and Systems Conference (DCAS). 2021 - May 2022.
Member, Search Committee. October 2021 - May 2022.
Technical Committee Member, IEEE World AI IoT Congress 2022. September 2021 - May 2022.
Coordinator / Organizer, IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference. June 2021 - April 2022.
Member, Bobcat Days. February 2022.
Technical Committee Member, IEEE CCWC 2022. September 2021 - January 2022.

Participant, Fall Commencement. 2020 - 2021.
Participant, Spring Commencement. 2018 - 2021.
Reviewer / Referee, American Society for Engineering Education. October 2017 - 2021.
Technical Committee Member, IEEE UEMCON 2021. June 2021 - November 2021.
Member, Supercomputing 21 Technical Program ACM Graduate Poster Committee Member. December 2020 - November 2021.
Technical Committee Member, IEEE IEMCON 2021. June 2021 - October 2021.
Technical Committee Member, IEEE World AI IoT Congress. January 2021 - May 2021.
Member, Teaching Peer Review. April 2021.
Technical Committee Member, IEEE CCWC 2021. November 2020 - January 2021.

Session Chair, IEEE Computer and Communications Workshop and Conference 2020. 2020.
Member, Teaching Peer Review. November 2020.
Technical Committee Member, IEEE IEMCON 2020. June 2020 - October 2020.
Technical Committee Member, IEEE UEMCON 2020. June 2020 - October 2020.
Reviewer / Referee, IIEEE International IoT, Electronics and Mechatronics Conference (IEMTRONICS). August 2020.
Reviewer / Referee, IEEE Intermountain Engineering, Technology, and Computing Conference (i-ETC). March 2020 - April 2020.

Attendee / Participant, Texas Smart Cities Summit - Austin CityUP Consortium. 2019.
Attendee / Participant, SC19 Mentor-Protege Program. 2019.
Session Chair, IEEE Ubiquitous Computing, Electronics, & Mobile Communication Conference 2020. 2019.
Technical Committee Member, IEEE CCWC 2020. August 2019 - November 2019.
Technical Committee Member, IEEE UEMCON 2019. June 2019 - August 2019.
Technical Committee Member, IEEE IEMCON 2019. May 2019 - August 2019.

Session Chair, IEEE Computer and Communications Workshop and Conference 2018. 2018.
Session Chair, The 16th Int'l Conf on Embedded Systems, Cyber-physical Systems, and Applications. 2018.
Session Chair, The 5th Annual Conference on Computational Science and Computational Intelligence. 2018.
Attendee / Participant, SC18 Mentor-Protege Program. 2018.
Attendee / Participant, SIGHPC. 2018.
Member, Ad-Hoc EE Graduate Student Applications. February 2018 - December 2018.
Member, Bobcat Days. October 2018.
Member, Bobcat Days. April 2018.

Coordinator / Organizer, IEEE Region 5 - Student Paper Competition. 2017.
Session Chair, Conference on Computational Science and Computational Intelligence. 2017.

ECE Dept., UTEP: Chapin High School, “Prep Engineering and Science Course". 2012.

ECE Dept., UTEP: Chapin High School, “Prep Engineering and Science Course". 2010.
UTEP College of Engineering Excites Summer Program, “DCL Computer Assembly Module sponsored by the of Engineering Programs Office (EPO)". 2007 - 2010.