Nicholas Th. Batis received the B.S. degree from Athens University in Math and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Polytechnic Institute of New York, Brooklyn, NY, in 1978, and 1983 respectively, all in Operations Research. He has been a member of Technical Staff (MTS) of AT&T Bell Laboratories from 1984 to 1989.
He is currently Professor at the Department of Information Technology and Telecommunications. Dr Batis served as the chairman of the Information Technology and Telecommunications Department. He also served from September 2003 to September 2010 as Dean of the School of Engineering, at the Larissa Institute of Technology (TEI), Larissa, Greece. His current research interests include Optimization Methods in Communication Networks.