He received his B.S., M.S. and PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering from The University of Texas at El Paso. Dr. Valles held a post-doc position at Montana Tech in the Computer Science department as the High Performance Computing (HPC) Application Scientist. He then worked at Wake Forest University as a HPC system administrator for the Information Systems department, and part-time lecturer for the Computer Science department. Dr. Valles has been working in architecting, researching, and system administrating HPC since 2004. His research goal is to merge Engineering and Science research to HPC, Machine Learning, Embedded Systems, and Visualization solutions to enhance simulation and discovery.