Prof. S. Koubias received the Diploma in Electrical Engineering and the PhD degree from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Patras, Greece, in 1976 and 1982 respectively. Since 1990 he had been an Assistant Professor, Associate Professor and Full Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering of the University of Patras. He has been elected Deputy Chairman (2001 - 2003) and Chairman (2015 - 2020), as well as elected Director of the Applied Electronics Laboratory (2008-2018) in this department. Also, he had been elected as the Rector of the University of Patras for the period 2006-2010.
From 2001 to 2003 he was acting as Director of the Network Operation Center (NOC) of the University of Patras which supports about 25.000 users. He had been Member of the National Quality Council (NQC) for Growth (2003-2005), Member of the Western Greece Region Advisory Council of Research and Innovation (2012-2015) and Member-at-Large for the Administrative Committee of the ΙΕΕΕ Industrial Electronics Society (2008-2010). He is a senior IEEE member.
His main research interests include real-time distributed embedded systems, advanced wired and wireless control/industrial networking systems, real-time communication protocols, energy efficient routing protocols for wireless sensor networks, management techniques for wireless nodes power consumption, distributed enterprise systems and industrial communication structures for C2Β, Β2Β applications (use of ontologies, web-services, industrial GRID etc.), interoperable industrial networking architectures, interworking of heterogeneous control communication systems, building networking/management systems, industrial machine vision systems, dynamic systems for industrial/business excellence-total quality. He has published over 150 papers in prestigious international journals and conference proceedings. He has also written books in industrial networks and microprocessor/microcomputer systems.
He has participated as coordinator or partner in many important Greek and European R&D and educational programs. The vast majority of the national and European important R&D projects, that Prof. Koubias has participated in, have been cooperation projects along with industries and enterprises, focused on design and application of powerful innovative solutions for advanced automation/control problems, based on significant scientific and research achievements, mainly based on industrial real-time networking systems for advanced automation. He had been participated as General Chair, permanent Steering Committee Member and Committee Member in many prestigious international (mainly IEEE) conferences. In addition, he is Guest Editor and reviewer in several prestigious journals and international conferences.