Welcome to my personal web site!
Since September 2023, I am Associate Professor and the GreenStar Endowed Fellow in Energy in the Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA).
My main research interests focus on applied artificial intelligence in various engineering applications such as Smart Grids, Smart Cities, Nuclear Power, and Nuclear Security. Please visit my research page for more details
Should you feel interested in working with me, please do not hesitate to contact me.
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AWARD and Distinction NEWS
Great Honor: UTSA honored me with the “LUTHCHER BROWN FELLOSHIP” for my research contributions.
Participating in the prestigious NNSA $25M Consortium: Prof. Alamaniotis is part of the “Enabling Capabilities in Technology Consortium!!
Great Honor: UTSA honored me with the “GreenStar Endowement Fellowship in Energy” for my contributions.
GREAT HONOR: Selected by the National Academy of Engineering among the top-notch 100 Early Career Engineers in USA for 2023 to attend the FOE Symposium.
I am the recipient of the UTSA President’s Distinguished Achievement Award for Research Achievement for 2022. Great Honor!!!
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NEWS:
- December 2024: Paper Accepted in the prestigious Journal of Building Engineering, collaborative work with Drexel University
- September 2024: 2 papers were accepted in the top-tier IEEE Int. Conference on Tools with AI. The first paper is on Anomaly detection in radiation measurements using Fuzzy Logic and the second on Fuzzy Management of Floating reactors in Smart Energy Systems.
- August 2024: Paper on Reactor Management for Maritime Environments was accepted in the MEDPOWER 2024 conference!!!!
- August 2024: Paper on the use of Hopfield Neural Networks to analyze gamma-ray spectra is accepted in the Top-Tier Journal Nuclear Technology.
- August 2024: Paper on Explainable AI for Background Radiation Estimation is accepted in the Prestigious ANNALS of NUCLEAR ENERGY JOURNAL.
- July 2024: Paper on Nuclear Security is accepted in ANS Winter Meeting
- July 2024: Paper on Economic Dispatch using RL is accepted in ISGT-2024 Europe
- June 2024: Paper on Matrix-Profile with DDDAS is accepted in DDDAS-2024 Conference
- June 2024: The NNSA “Enabling Capabilities in Technology” Consortium was selected for funding by DOE/NNSA. The Consortium comprised of 15 Universities and 8 National Laboratories will receive $25 million for 5 years: https://www.energy.gov/nnsa/articles/nnsa-awards-50-million-cooperative-agreements-two-university-consortia-support
- June 2024: Papers were accepted at IISA 2024 conference that takes place in Chania Greece.
- June 2024: Paper – collaboration with Dept. of Architecture in Drexel University – was accepted in Buildings Journal.
- April 2024: Paper on Small Modular Reactors for Electricity Markets has been accepted in the Energies Journal.
- March 2024: Interdisciplinary Paper (electrical engineering – architecture) accepted at Smart and Sustainable Built Environment
- February 2024: Paper accepted at ANS Annual Conference
- February 2024: Paper accepted at PLEA 2024 conference
- January 2024: My Phd Student Thanos Arvanitidis was awarded an NSF Travel award to go to IEEE TPEC.
- January 2024: 4 papers were accepted at the IEEE Texas Power and Energy Conference
- October 2023: Paper accepted in Radiation Physics and Chemistry Journal published by Elsevier
- September 2023: Associate Professor position with tenure is officially effective (Early tenured)
- September 2023: Granted the “GreenStar Endowment Felloship in Energy”
- September 2023: Two papers accepted at IEEE ICTAI 2023 conference
- August 2023: Paper accepted on Fuzzy decision making in container scanning was accepted at Nuclear Technology
- August 2023: Paper accepted at Prognostics and Health Management 2023 Conference
- August 2023: Paper accepted at Building Engineering journal
- August 2023: Paper accepted at ANS Winter Meeting
- August 2023: Paper accepted at ANS non-proliferation conference
- June 2023: Paper with Coventry University was accepted in the top-notch Journal of SCIENTIFIC REPORTS published by NATURE!
- June 2023: The Nuclear Technology journal accepted our novel paper on Reinforcement learning for radiation detector deployment!!
- June 2023: 5 papers were accepted in the IISA 2023 conference
- May 2023: Paper collaboration with Idaho National Laboratory was accepted in Energies journal.
- April 2023: Paper was accepted in Energies Journal
- April 2023: Paper was accepted to Cogent Engineering Journal
- March 2023: Paper was accepted to ANS Instrumentation and Control Conference
- March 2023: EARLY TENURE granted.
- March 2023: Journal Paper was accepted to Electric Power Systems Research Special issue.
- February 2023: Paper (collaboration with the Architectural Departments in Drexel and UTSA) was accepted in ARCC 2023 International Conference
- January 2023: Journal paper was accepted in SoftwareX journal (Elsevier)
- December 2022: paper in IEEE Modern Power Systems and Clean Energy Journal was accepted
- October 2022: paper in Energies is accepted
- September 2022: paper in Sustainability is accepted
- August 2022: paper in IJAIT is accepted
- July 2022: NEUP Grant awarded
- June 2022: NNSA Grant awarded
- January 25, 2022: Paper accepted to Nuclear Science and Engineering Journal!
- January 18, 2022: Paper accepted to Applied Artificial Intelligence Journal
- December 29, 2021: Paper on Smart Analytics in Low Count Gamma ray spectra was accepted
- November 9, 2021: Journal paper on AI for Building Identification was accepted at Energies
- October 27: Collaborative grant with Dept. of Architecture (Dr. Martinez-Molina) was awarded
- October 25: Paper accepted to IEEE ISGT – North America Conference 2022
- October 6: Paper accepted to Energies journal
- October 2: Paper accepted to Electric Power Systems Research Journal
- September 5: Journal Paper accepted to Nuclear Technology and Radiation Protection
- May 15, 2021: Journal Paper accepted in Journal on Artificial Intelligence Tools
- May 12, 2021: Collaborative paper with the UTSA Dept. of Architecture was accepted in Building Technology Educators’ Society (BTES) Conference.
- March 26, 2021: Student Adam Hooker received the prestigious Barry Goldwater Scholarship for his work on IoT Radiation Sensor Security
- March 25, 2021: 2 Papers accepted in ANS Instrumentation Conference (one paper in Quantum Communications, and the other on Molten Salt Reactors and Machine Learning)
- February 28, 2021: Paper accepted at IEEE PowerTech 2021 Conference
- February 25, 2021: Paper accepted at ANS Annual Conference
- February 20, 2021: Paper in ANS student Conference coauthored with undergraduate student Adam Hooker was accepted.
- February 18, 2021: Paper in ASCE Transporation Conference coauthored with Ph.D. student Y. Munian and Dr. Molina (Dept of Architecture) was accepted.
- February 4, 2021: Paper in Neural Computation and Applications Journal was accepted
- August 27, 2020: Collaboration grant with ANL funded by DOE/NEUP
- August 27, 2020: Paper accepted at Nuclear Technology
- August 1, 2020: 2 Papers accepted at ANS Winter Meeting
- July 19, 2020: Paper accepted at Sustainability Journal
- July 1, 2020: Special Issue in Int. J. on Artificial Intelligence Tools that I was the guest editor is published online
- June 30, 2020: Chapter published in Book “Artificial Intelligence Techniques for a Scalable Energy Transition.
- June 27, 2020: Paper on animal detection accepted at IISA conference
- June 25, 2020: Paper accepted in IEEE Access
- June 10, 2020: Prestigious Presidential award grant received by UTH-SA
- October 1, 2019: Awarded $3,000,000 grant from DOE/NNSA