Aris Athanasios "Thanos" Panagopoulos
Unit: Artificial Intelligence & Intelligent Systems Laboratory
Title: Assistant Professor, California State University, Fresno
Research Expertise
Aris Athanasios "Thanos" Panagopoulos is an Associate Professor of Computer Science and Founder and Director of the Artificial Intelligence & Intelligent Systems (AIIS) Laboratory at California State University, Fresno. His interdisciplinary research spans machine learning, generative AI, reinforcement learning, multiagent systems, optimization, intelligent control, and AI for sustainable cyber-physical and socio-technical systems, with applications in agriculture, energy, smart buildings, transportation, education, and public history.
He has served as Principal Investigator or Co-Principal Investigator on more than $2.4 million in sponsored projects supported by organizations including the National Science Foundation, Google/CAHSI, the California Learning Lab, the California Energy Commission, and the Agricultural Research Institute. His work has appeared in venues including AAAI, AAMAS, ECAI, ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology, Expert Systems with Applications, and Physical Review D.
Panagopoulos received the 2025 Fresno State Faculty Provost's Excellence in Teaching Award and has served on the program committees of major AI conferences including AAAI, IJCAI, ICLR, and ECAI. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Southampton, UK, and his integrated Master's degree in Electronic and Computer Engineering from the Technical University of Crete, Greece. Before joining Fresno State, he conducted postdoctoral research at UC Berkeley.
For more information, visit
apanagopoulos.com.
Areas of Expertise/Keywords
- Artificial Intelligence
- Machine Learning and Generative AI
- Reinforcement Learning and Intelligent Decision-Making
- Multiagent Systems
- Optimization and Intelligent Control
- AI for Sustainable Cyber-Physical Systems
