Nicholas Batis

Dr. Nicholas Batis is a Professor in the Department of Planning and Regional Development. He is also serving as a member of the Integration Council that supervises the integration of the University of Thessaly with the TEI of Thessaly. In the past he held the positions of Rector, Dean and Department Head at the TEI of Thessaly.
Dr. Batis started his academic career as a faculty member of the University of Massachusetts/Boston and continued his research work at the Bell Laboratories where he was involved in analytical studies of high performance communication networks. Dr. Batis’ work was presented in various domestic and international forums and formed the basis for the edition, under the care of Dr. Batis, of the ANSI standard document of Frame Relay.
Dr. Batis holds a BA in Mathematics from the University of Athens, and completed his post graduate studies in New York University Tandom School of Engineering (former Polytechnic Institute of NY), which lead to the award of two Master degrees in Operations Research and Economic Systems respectively and a Ph.D. degree in Operational Research. His research interests are concentrated mainly on performance issues of high speed communications protocols.

1983

Doctoral Degree in Operations Research. Thesis title: "Resource Allocation with Interdependent Activities."
New York University Tandom School of Engineering , New York, USA

1981

Master of Sciences in Economic Systems
New York University Tandom School of Engineering (former Polytechnic Institute of New York), New York, USA

1978

Master of Sciences in Operations Research
New York University Tandom School of Engineering (former Polytechnic Institute of New York), New York, USA

1976

BA in Mathematics. Emphasis on Applied Mathematics.
Athens University, Athens, Greece

Awards

“Exceptional Contribution Award”, awarded by AT&T Bell Labs on March 1989 in recognition of significant contribution towards the development of the AT&T data networking architecture.
“Exceptional Contribution Award”, awarded by AT&T Bell Labs on March 1988 in recognition of significant contributions towards the standardization of frame relaying.
“Exceptional Contribution Award”, awarded by AT&T Bell Labs on July 1987 in recognition of technical contributions in the area of packet mode bearer services within ISDN.
“Exceptional Contribution Award”, awarded by AT&T Bell Labs on July 1985 in recognition of technical contributions in the area of private telecommunications network designs.
“Certificate of Appreciation” awarded by the American Institute of Decision Sciences on March 1985, in recognition of contributions toward the enhancement of the Interface between Industry and the Decision Science Academic Community.
Recipient of two Faculty Research Grants from the College of Management of the University of Massachusetts/Boston.
Teaching Fellow at Polytechnic Institute of New York from January 1978 to June 1982.

Member of the Intergation Council of University of Thessaly, September 2019 – present

Rector of Technological Education Institute of Thessaly, from September 2017 until January 2018

Vice President of the Board of Directors of Technological Education Institute of Thessaly, from January 2013 until 2016.

Dean of the School of Engineering of Technological Education Institute of Thessaly, from September 2003 until August 2010.

Head of the Department of Information Technology and Telecommunications of Technological Education Institute of Thessaly, from September 1999 until November 2002.

January 2020 to present

UNIVERSITY OF THESSALY, VOLOS-GREECE

Department of Planning and Regional Development

Professor of Information Systems with tenure.

January 2019 to January 2020

UNIVERSITY OF THESSALY, LARISA-GREECE

Department of General Sciences

Professor of Information Systems with tenure.

September 1989 to January 2019

INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGICAL EDUCATION OF THESSALY, LARISA-GREECE

Department of Computers Engineering.

Professor of Information Systems with tenure.Responsibilities included teaching, research and service. Teaching involved courses related to Probability and Statistics, Operations Research, Computer Programming, Engineering Economic Analysis, System Simulation, etc. Enjoyed excellent class relations. Research involved problems on Computer Networking, Congestion Control, etc.

September 1991 to September 1992

UNIVERSITY OF THESSALY, VOLOS-GREECE

Department of Planning and Regioanal Development.

Adjunct Assistant Professor

Responsibilities included teaching courses in computer programming.

September 1982 to July 1984

UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS, BOSTON MA 02125

Assistant Professor of Management Sciences.

Responsibilities included teaching, research and service. Teaching involved courses related to Statistics, Operations Management, Production Planning, Inventory Control, Quality Control, Simulation, Forecasting, and Mathematical Programming. Enjoyed excellent class relations and outstanding student evaluations. Research involved problems on Combinatorial Optimization related to 0-1 Knapsack problem, Fixed Charge problem, Optimum Location Selection problem, e.t.c.. Service involved introduction of new courses, faculty performance review, paper refereeing, student and University affairs, e.t.c..

January 1978 to June 1982

POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE OF NEW YORK

Teaching and Research Assistant. Responsibilities included teaching Operations Research courses and research on Combinatorial Optimization Problems.

September 1992 to July 1993

BELL COMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH, RED BANK, N.J. 07701

Member of Technical Staff (MTS) in the Data Communications

Technology Department (On sabbatical leave from Institute of

Technological Education, Larisa, Greece).

July 1986 to September 1989

AT&T BELL LABORATORIES, HOLMDEL N.J. 07733

Member of the AT&T Data Architecture Planning department.

Responsibilities include development and planning of the AT&T data architecture. Special emphasis on data networking, interworking, LAN interconnection, high speed data networking, and broadband ISDN. Analytical studies on the evolution of Integrated Services Digital Network (ISDN). Special emphasis on the evolution of packet mode services within ISDN, and on the evolution of ISDN interfaces into higher speeds (Broadband ISDN). Participation in the development of ISDN standards in CCITT (TSS) and T1S1 Standards forums. Editor of the Architecture and Service Description Document of Frame-relaying for the T1S1 Standards Committee.

July 1984 to July 1986

AT&T BELL LABORATORIES, HOLMDEL N.J. 07733

Analytical studies on private telecommunications networks, including design of voice networks, and voice and data integrated networks. Analysis of AT&T services and recommendations on improvements. Research and development of new services, including price structure, feasibility studies, functionality, e.t.c.. Introduced a hybrid design for private networks by combining Virtual Private Networks with Premises Based Networks.

Leader and major contributor in numerous projects sponsored by European Union.

Books/Monographs

Introduction to functional programming –I using ML. Batis. TEI of Thessaly. 2000 (in Greek)
Introduction to functional programming –IΙ using ML. Batis. TEI of Thessaly. 2001 (in Greek)
Introduction to Relational Data Base –SQL. Batis. TEI of Thessaly. 1998 (in Greek)
Introduction to Computer Programming with QBASIC. Batis. TEI of Thessaly. 1994 (in Greek)

Journals articles with reviews

Ipsilantis, P., Batis, N, Kantas, D., Papadopoulos, I., Trivellas, P., 2012. Experiences gained from the implementation of Quality Management processes at a Greek Higher Education Institution. Cultural, organizational and stakeholder issues. EUA Case Studies 2012, Quality and Trust: at the heart of what we do. (A selection of papers from the 6^th European Quality Assurance Forum – EQAF 2011, 17-19/11/2011, Antwerp, Belgium), pp. 36-45.
Koutsiaris A.G., Tachmitzi S.V., Batis N., 2013. Wall shear stress quantification in the human conjunctival pre-capillary arterioles in vivo. Microvascular Research 85: 34-39.
Aristotle G. Koutsiaris, Sophia Tachmitzi and Nick Batis. The Resistive index as a function of vessel diameter in the human carotid arterial tree. “The 6^th International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedical Engineering (iCBBE 2012)”, Shanghai, China, May 17-20, 2012.
Aristotle G. Koutsiaris, Sophia V. Tachmitzi, Periklis Papavasileiou, Nick Batis , Maria G. Kotoula, Athanasios D. Giannoukas, Evagelia Tsironi. “Blood velocity pulse quantification in the human conjunctival pre-capillary arterioles” MICROVASCULAR RESEARCH Volume 80 Issue 2 pp202-208 September 2010
Aristotle G. Koutsiaris, Sophia V. Tachmitzi, Nick Batis, Maria G. Kotoula, Constantinos H. Karabatsas, Evagelia Tsironi, and Dimitrios Z. Chatzoulis. “Volume flow and wall shear stress quantification in the human conjunctival capillaries and post-capillary venules in vivo” BIORHEOLOGY 44(2007) 375-386
Ν. Samaras, N. Batis “Optimal Trajectory of Dynamic Multistage ROT cooling Process with Stochastic Disturbances” The IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications. May/June 2006 issue.

Conference proceedings with reviews

Ν. Samaras, N. Batis “On optimization of multicast routing communication networks”. International Conference on Telecommunications & Multimedia – TEMU 2006
Karetsos and N. Batis “Technologies and trends for enabling Advanced IP based Services over Wireless Networks” International Conference on Telecommunications & Multimedia – TEMU 2005
Koutsiaris, Μaria Kotoula, John Marmorkos, Nick Samaras, Jim Xantzoulis, N. Batis “An imaging system with new capabilities for measuring microcirculatory parameters in the human conjuctiva” International Conference on Telecommunications & Multimedia– TEMU 2005.
A.G. Koutsiaris, S.V. Tachmitzi, M.G. Kotoula, C.H. Karabatsas, E. Tsironi, N. Batis and D.Z. Chatzoulis «A slit lamp based imaging system for measuring blood velocity in the conjunctival microcirculation of the human eye». 24th Conference of the European Society for Microcirculation, August 30-September 2, 2006, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Aristotle G. Koutsiaris, Sophia V. Tachmitzi, Maria G. Kotoula, Constantinos H. Karabatsas, Evagelia Tsironi, Nick Batis and Dimitrios Z. Chatzoulis. Measurements of Blood Velocity in the Human Conjunctival Microcirculation and WSS Estimation».2nd Eurosummer School on Biorheology & Symposium on Micro Mechanobiology of Cells, Tissues and Systems, September 17-20, 2006, Varna, Bulgaria.
“Resource Allocation under Assumption of Interdependency: Heuristics.” N. T. Batis –J.T. Chu. American Institute of Decision Sciences 1983 Proceedings. Williamsburg.
“Resource Allocation under Assumptions of Interdependency.” N. T. Batis –J.T. Chu. American Institute of Decision Sciences 1982 Proceedings. San Francisco.
“A Generalization of the 0-1 Knapsack Problem. Statistical Techniques for Estimating the Optimum Value”. N. T. Batis Operations Research/Management Sciences joint National Meeting. November 1983. Orlando, Florida.

Announcements in scientific conferences without proceedings

“Explicit Congestion Notification vs Implicit Congestion Detection in Frame Relaying”. T1S1 Meeting in New Brunswick, New Jersey. Contribution No. 89-149. April 1989.
“American National Standard for Telecommunications – FrameRelaying Bearer Service – Architectural Framework and Service Description”. T1S1 Meeting in Mclean, Virginia. January 1989. Contribution No. 88-224R1.
“Performance of a Dynamic Window Congestion Control Mechanism”. T1D1 Meeting in Cooper Mountain, Colorado. Contribution No. 87-203. May 1987. b) CCITT Study Group XVIII meeting in Hamburg. Contribution No. D.1123/XVIII. July 1987.
“Use of Priorities within Step 3 Packet Mode Bearer Services”. T1D1 Meeting in Cooper Mountain, Colorado. Contribution No. 87-201. May 1987. b) CCITT Study Group XVIII meeting in Hamburg. Contribution No D.1124/XVIII. July 1987.
“Definitions of Throughput, Transit Delay, and Information Integrity in a Frame-Relaying Network”. a) T1D1 Meeting in Cooper Mountain, Colorado. Contribution No. 87-202. May 1987. b) CCITT Study Group XVIII meeting in Hamburg. Contribution No D.1125/XVIII. July 1987.
“Link Layer Address Translation Function and Delay”. T1D1 Meeting in Cooper Mountain, Colorado. Contribution No. 87-205. May 1987. b) CCITT Study Group XVIII meeting in Hamburg. Contribution No D.1126/XVIII. July 1987.
“Fraud Vulnerability and Misrouting of Frames in a Frame-Relaying Network”. a) T1D1 Meeting in Cooper Mountain, Colorado. Contribution No. 87-206. May 1987. CCITT Study Group XVIII meeting in Hamburg. Contribution No D.1127/XVIII. July 1987.
“Resolution of Call Collision”. a) T1D1 Meeting in Cooper Mountain, Colorado. Contribution No. 87-207. May 1987. b) CCITT Study Group XVIII meeting in Hamburg. Contribution No D.1128/XVIII. July 1987.
“Connectionless Services in Step 3 Packet Mode Bearer Services”. a) T1D1 Meeting in Cooper Mountain, Colorado. Contribution No. 87-208. May 1987. b) CCITT Study Group XVIII meeting in Hamburg. Contribution No D.1129/XVIII. July 1987.
“Technical Issues Concerning Charging for Step 3 Packet Mode Bearer Services”. a) T1D1 Meeting in Cooper Mountain, Colorado. Contribution No. 87-209. May 1987. b) CCITT Study Group XVIII Meeting in Hamburg. Contribution No. 1130/XVIII. July 1987.
“Frame-Relaying in the D(16 Kbps) – Channel”. T1D1 Meeting in Cooper Mountain, Colorado. Contribution No. 87-204. May 1987.
“Load Increase under Link-by-Link and End-to-End Error Recovery”. a) T1D1 Meeting in Irving, Texas. Contribution No. 87-02. January 1987. b) CCITT Study Group XVIII meeting in Brasilia. Contribution No D.987/XVIII. February 1987.
“Bandwidth Utilization for Fixed and Variable frame Length”. T1D1 Meeting in Irving, Texas. Contribution No. 87-03. February 1987. b) CCITT Study Group XVIII meeting in Brasilia. Contribution No D.988/XVIII. February 1987.
“Delay and Throughput in a Frame-Relaying Network”. a) T1D1 Meeting in Irving, Texas. Contribution No. 87-04. February 1987. CCITT Study Group XVIII meeting in Brasilia. Contribution No D.989/XVIII. February 1987.
“Congestion Control in a Frame-Relaying LAPD Based Network”. T1D1 Meeting in Irving, Texas. Contribution No. 87-05. CCITT Study Group XVIII meeting in Brasilia. Contribution No D.990/XVIII. February 1987.
“Architecture and Service Description of Frame-Relaying”. T1D1 Meeting in Atlanta, Georgia. Contribution No. 87-93. March 1987.
“Technical Issues Concerning Charging for Proposed New Packet Mode Bearer Services”. a) T1D1 Meeting in Oakbrook, Illinois. Contribution No. 86-120. June 1986. b) CCITT Study Group XVIII meeting in Geneva. Contribution No D.718/XVIII. July 1986.

Other work

Editor of the ANSI Standard “Integrated Services Digital Network(ISDN). Architectural Framework and Service Description for Frame Relaying Bearer Service.
“Wide-band Packet Technology Design Applications in Private Networks”. AT&T Bell Laboratories Internal Memorandum. Filing Case No 39351-528. May 1986.
“Economic trade-offs between current technology and wide-band packet technology and a proposal of a pricing scheme for a wide- band packet network”. AT&T Bell laboratories Internal Memorandum. Filing case No 39351-528. May 1986.
“Study of Travelers Insurance Company’s Private Network.” AT&T Bell Laboratories Internal Memorandum. Filing Case No 39351-528. December 1985.
“Economic trade-offs between Software Defined Network and Private Lines.” AT&T Bell Laboratories Internal Memorandum. Filing Case No 39351-528. December 1985.
“Study of United Airlines Private Network.” AT&T Bell Laboratories Internal Memorandum. Filing Case No 39351-528. March 1985.

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