Welcome to my personal web site!
Since September 2026, I am Full Professor in the Dept. of Electrical and Engineering at the University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA).
I joined UT San Antonio as Assistant Prof. in 2018, became Associate in 2022 (and started in 2023) and became Full Professor in 2025 (started in 2026).
I have been a Green Star Endowed Fellow in Energy in 2023 -2024.
I have been a Lutcher Brown Endowed Fellow in 2024-2025.
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
- Invited as a member of the Bexar County Nuclear Advisory Board that will support the deployment of the first microreactor in San Antonio area.
- Promotion to Full Professor announced in Februrary 2026. Followed an accelerated track and early assessement for promotion from Associate to Full Professor. Joined as Assistant prof. in summer 2018, I got an early tenure in 2023, and then became Full Professor in summer 2026.
- Best Paper Award in the 17thInternational Conference on Information, Systems and Applications (IISA 2026) for the paper on the application of RVACHEV Functions in Nuclear Security
- Best Paper Award in the 4th International Conference on Emerging Internet, Data and Web Technologies (EIDWT-2026)
- Elevated to IEEE Senior Member!
- Selected by the Texas Academy of Medicine, Engineering, Science, and Technology (TAMEST) to participate in the TAMEST Protégé Program where the Rising Stars of Texas participate!
- Included in the Stanford’s List of 2% Top World Scientists.
- Invited Panelist on the topic of Small Modular Reactors at Athens Riviera Summit
- Invited to serve as Associate Editor in IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science
- Placed in the top 0.5% of all scholars worldwide according to the 2024 ScholarGPS ranking
Best Paper Award in IEEE Texas Power and Energy Conference 2025
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:
- October 2026: Paper on Agentic Nuclear Sensing Systems was accepted at 11th Annual Conference on Electrical Engineering of the Athens Institute.
- October 2026: I was enlisted in the STANFORD LIST OF the Top 2% scientists in the world.
- October 2026: Paper on Physics Constrained Deep Transformers applied to gamma ray spectra accepted to Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics A Journal. Paper lead by my phd student Derian Mowen.
- September 2026: Paper on the innovative use of LG-Graph for gamma ray analysis was accepted to Electronics journal.
- August 2026: Conference paper on the new idea of Distributed Cognitive Surveillance was accepted in IEEE ICTAI 2026.
- September 1, 2026: PROMOTION to FULL PROFESSOR is effective.
- August 2026: Journal paper regarding the control of Medium and Heavy Duty Electric Vehicles was accepted in IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications.
- August 2026: Paper on the Physical Security of Maritime Physical Security Risks and Challenges in the Maritime Transport of Fueled Nuclear Microreactors has been published in the International Journal on Nuclear Security.
- July 2026: Paper on combining Fuzzy Inference, DDDAS and Matrix Profile was accepted in the top-tier IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science
- July 2026: 4 papers were accepted in the ANS Winter Meeting
- July 2026: My paper on FLOATING NUCLEAR DESALINATION was accepted in the top tier and prestigious MIT SCIENCE POLICY REVIEW journal. The paper is THE FIRST to discuss the geopolitcs and policy issues of combining floating reactors and desalination systems!
- July 2026: A paper on Transformer for Anomaly detection was accepted in IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference
- June 2026: Paper on Multimodal Transformer for Environmental predictions of Education buildings developed together with Architecture Dept of Drexel University was accepted in the top tier Smart and Sustainable Built Environment Journal.
- May 2026: Two student lead papers accepted in IISA 2026 conference. The first is on Load forecasting of AI Data Center Demand and the second on RVACHEV function application to nuclear security
- May 2026: Collaborative paper with Drexel University on Smart Preservation of Artifacts using AI is accepted in the top tier Smart and Sustainable Built Environment Journal.
- March 2026: Paper on Anomaly Detection in gamma spectra was accepted in ANS Global 2026.
- February 2026: The paper “Ensemble of GPR Models for Very-Short Term Forecasting of AI-Oriented Data Centers Load Demand,”” authored by my PhD student Mak Torkornoo, my colleagues S. Ahmed, N. Gatsis and myself was idnetified as the Best Paper in the EIDWT 2026 conference.
- February 2026: I was very honored to be elevated by IEEE to Senior Member. Only 10% of IEEE members are identified seniors!
- February 2026: My group had 6 papers accepted in the American Nuclear Student Conference 2026 containing innovative paper in Maritime Microreactors and AI for Data centers.
- February 2026: Collaborative paper with Drexel University was accepted at ndoor Air Quality, Ventilation and Energy Conservation in Buildings Conference
- February 2026: Innovative Paper on Muons for Microreactor monitoring was accepted to top-tier Elsevier’s Journal of Nuclear Engineering and Technology!
- January 2026: A paper on Studying the AI Datacenter Load on power stability is accepted at IEEE GreenTech Conference
- January 2026: Two papers on Cybersecurity were accepted at AINA 2026 conference
- January 2026: Paper on Load forecasting of AI Data Centers is accepted in the iEEE Texas Power and Energy Conference

