GreenStar Endowed Professor in Energy

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
The University of Texas at San Antonio
One UTSA Circle, San Antonio, TX 78249
Office Location: AET 2.356

 

My main area of research is the optimal planning, operation, and control of power and energy systems. I place particular emphasis on the analysis and optimization of the interactions between the electric power grid and other infrastructures, including water distribution networks, electrified transportation, and data centers. My research methodologically draws from mathematical optimization; systems and control; and machine learning.

Current research topics

• Modeling and analysis of electric power distribution networks 
• Impacts of data centers on the grid and the energy-compute nexus
• Optimal and secure operation of water distribution systems
• Impacts of transportation electrification on the electric grid
• Short-circuit analysis and protection of inverter-based power systems
• Stochastic optimization for power systems with distributed renewable energy resources
• Detection and mitigation of spoofing attacks against the Global Positioning System

Awards

• Annual Innovation Award, (UTSA, 2022)
• President’s Award for Research Achievement (UTSA, 2021)
  
• Contributions to Teaching Excellence Award (UTSA Klesse College of Engineering and Integrated Design, 2021)
• Lutcher Brown Endowed Fellowship (UTSA, 2020-2021)
• NSF CAREER Award (2019)

Education

I received the Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering with minor in Mathematics from the University of Minnesota in June 2012. Before that, I received the 5-year Diploma degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Patras, Greece.

My Google Scholar profile can be found here.