Basilis Boutsinas has been a full professor at the Department of Business Administration of the University of Patras in Greece since 2001. He received his diploma in "Computer Engineering and Informatics" in 1991 from the University of Patras. He also conducted studies in "Electronics Engineering" at the Technical Education Institute of Piraeus, Greece, and Pedagogics at the Pedagogical Academy of Lamia, Greece. He received his Ph.D. on knowledge representation from the University of Patras in 1997. His primary research interests include intelligent information systems, data mining, business intelligence, and knowledge representation. Some of his research results have been included in early/introductory scientific literature on topics such as parallel artificial intelligence, the application of data mining to facility location problems, and the application of data mining techniques to education. He has been the Director of the Management Information Systems and Business Intelligence Lab (MISBILAB) at the University of Patras since 2009 and a founding member of the Artificial Intelligence Institute of the University Research Center of the University of Patras. He has managed various research projects at the University of Patras, funded with more than 3 million euros by national and European funds in the last ten years, mostly through competitive bids. Since 2018, he has served as the dean of the business school at the University of Patras.