2026 - : UNITe: Universities for Science, Informatics and Technologies in the e-Society (BG05M2OP001-1.001-0004-C01 & BG16RFPR002-1.014-0004), WP1: Innovative mathematical methods and models to support digital transformation, team member (R3)
2023 - : SUMMIT: Sofia University Marking Momentum for Innovation and Technological Transfer, European Union - NextGenerationEU, through the National Recovery and Resilience Plan of the Republic of Bulgaria, project №BG-RRP-2.004-0008-C01, №70-123-459/27.06.2023
2022 - 2025 : me_HeLi-D: Mental Health Literacy and Diversity. Enhancing Mental Health and Resilience through digital Resources for Youth, Erasmus+, KA2, Strategic Partnerships
2020 – 2022 : MIRACle “Mechatronics, Innovation, Robotics, Automation, Clean technologies” Centre of competence, Project BG05M20P001-1.002-0011
2019 – 2020: GATE, European Commission, #: 857155
2018 – 2018: Biomedical data semantic integration models
2018 – 2018: 12th International Conference on Information Systems and Grid Technologies – ISGT’2018
2017 – 2017: 43nd International Conference „Applications of Mathematics in Engineering and Economics“
2016 – 2016: GLOBIG "Model for cloud integration of platform with hybrid massive parallelism and application for analysis and automated semantic enrichment of large collections of heterogeneous data"
Teaching
in English (for Erasmus students):
Project Risk Management
Design of Robotics Systems
Ethical Design for Trustworthy Solutions
Intellectual Property Protection
Prompt Engineering
Data Bases (seminars)
Models Evaluation
in Bulgarian:
Management Information Systems I (Information Systems, I year)
Management Information Systems II (Information Systems, II year)
XML-technologies (Information Systems, III year)
E-business Systems (Information Systems, IV year)
Design of Robotics Systems (Elective)
Project Risk Management (Elective)
Ethical Design for Trustworthy Solutions (Elective)
Intellectual Property Protection (Elective)
Prompt Engineering (Elective)
Models Evaluation (Elective)
Publications
Scientific articles
Patias, Ioannis (2026) On the Adoption of Information Technology in Organizations: A Focus on LLMs in Education. Lecture Notes on Data Engineering and Communications TechnologiesBook Chapter2026. DOI: 10.1007/978-981-95-4423-3_41 ()
Patias, I. (2026) Distributed Cognition with Edge Architecture Enabling Intelligent Machines. Smart Innovation Systems and TechnologiesOpen source preview, 2026, 125 SIST, pp. 159–171
Ioannis Patias (2026), A unified architectural framework for retail AI agents based on tiered functional decomposition. , 2026 Proceedings of International Scientific Conference Artificial Intelligence, editor/s:Prof. D.Sc. Georgi Popov, DHC, Technical University of Sofia, BG, 2026, pages:37-42, ISSN (print):ISSN (PRINT) 3033-2923, ISSN (online):ISSN (ONLINE) 3134-166
Ioannis Patias (2026), Forecasting Agentic AI Resource Consumption in Business Processes: A Three Dimensions Cost Estimation Conceptual Framework,2026 8th International Congress on Human-Computer Interaction, Optimization and Robotic Applications (ICHORA), Ankara, Turkiye, Publisher:IEEE, 2026,
Ioannis Patias, Rositsa Fakalieva (2026), A multi‑layer responsible AI scorecard for evaluating conversational agents,2026 8th International Congress on Human-Computer Interaction, Optimization and Robotic Applications (ICHORA), Ankara, Turkiye, Publisher:IEEE, 2026,
Boris Robev, Ioannis Patias (2026), IoT Payments: Bridging The Gap Between Connectivity, Compliance and Commerce,2026 8th International Congress on Human-Computer Interaction, Optimization and Robotic Applications (ICHORA), Ankara, Turkiye, Publisher:IEEE, 2026,
Ioannis Patias, Boris Robev (2026), A Quantitative Framework for Monetization in Agent-Mediated e-Commerce, 17th International Conference on E-Education, E-Business, E-Management and E-Learning (IC4e) held in Kyushu University Fukuoka, Japan,
Ioannis Patias, Toma Tomov (2026), Barriers and Horizons: Student Perspectives on LLMs in University Settings, 17th International Conference on E-Education, E-Business, E-Management and E-Learning (IC4e) held in Kyushu University Fukuoka, Japan,
Koutaro HACHIYA and Ioannis PATIAS (2026), Extending Latency Models for Long-Sequence Inference: Nonlinear, Adaptive, and Empirical Enhancements, 11th International Conference on Information and Communication Technology for Intelligent Systems held in Bangkok, Thailand,
Ioannis Patiasand Dimitar Dimitrov, (2026), Reusing test results for SQL query grading: A step-by-step approach, 12th International Conference on Frontiers of Educational Technologies (ICFET 2026), held in Otsuma Women's University, Tokyo, Japan,
Ioannis Patias, Koutaro Hachiya, (2026), Reconfigurable Intelligence Architecture for Ultra-Low-Latency LLMs on FPGAs, 10th International Conference on Machine Learning and Soft Computing (ICMLSC 2026), inpress
Ioannis Patias, Koutaro Hachiya, (2026), Determinants of Workload Suitability Across GPU, FPGA, and ASIC, 10th World Conference on Information Communication Systems, Software, Security and Sustainability — will be held in London, UK during July 28–30, 2026 (accepted - )
Ioannis Patias, Dafinka Miteva, and Elitsa Peltekova, (2026), Architectures for Trustworthy ITS: Balancing Fine‑Tuning, Adaptivity, and Explainability, 11th International Conference on Distance Education and Learning, held in Hangzhou, China during June 12-15, 2026,
Ioannis Patias and Boris Robev. 2026. Value-Based Pricing of LLMs: A three dimensions Framework for Input, Model, and Output Costs. In 2026 The 9th International Conference on Information and Computer Technologies (ICICT 2026), March 11–13, 2026, Honolulu, HI, USA. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 7 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3803291.3803360,
Ioannis PATIAS, Тoma TOMOV, (2026) MIS Education in the AI Era: Mapping APQC Processes to DigComp 2.2 Competences, 20th International Conference on Business Excellence (ICBE 2026), Bucurest - Romania,
Ioannis Patias. 2026. SYSTEMATIC PROMPT VALIDATION FOR ROBUST AND RELIABLE LLM‑DRIVEN AI SYSTEMS, Annual of Sofia University St Kliment Ohridski Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics Open source preview, 2026, Ioannis Patias, Covid-19 Digital health literacy of Sofia University IT students – preliminary results, International Journal of Population Data Science, vol:7, issue:2:11, 2022, ISSN (online):2399-4908, doi:https://doi.org/10.23889/ijpds.v7i2.1744, Ref, Web of Science, IF (16 - 2020), SCOPUS, SJR (0.602 - 2020), SCOPUS Quartile: Q2 (Information Systems and Management)
Georgieva, M., Patias, I., Totev, P. (2025) A Prompt Engineering Methodology for Evaluating Large Language Models in Academic Processes. Ismsit 2025 9th International Symposium on Multidisciplinary Studies and Innovative Technologies ProceedingsOpen source preview, 2025
Patias, I. (2025) Teaching the Machine, and Trusting the Machine: Unpacking the Pitfalls of LLMs in Education. 2025 2nd International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Teacher Education Icaite 2025Open source preview, 2025, pp. 343–348
Peltekova, E., Miteva, D., Patias, I. (2025) BUILDING MENTAL HEALTH RESOURCES: THE HUMAN-CENTERED INTERACTION DESIGN IMPLEMENTED IN me_HeLi-D PLATFORM. Annual of Sofia University St Kliment Ohridski Faculty of Mathematics and InformaticsOpen source preview, 2025, 112, pp. 123–135
Ioannis Patias and Koutaro Hachiya. 2025. A Parametric Latency Model for Optimizing Edge AI Architectures. In 2025 8th Artificial Intelligence and Cloud Computing Conference (AICCC 2025), December 20–22, 2025, Tokyo, Japan. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 8 pages (533-540). https://doi.org/10.1145/3789982. 379005
Ioannis Patias, Foundational Models as General-Purpose Technology: A Guide to Corporate Transformation, 9th International Symposium on Innovative Approaches in Smart Technologies” (ISAS2025) Gaziantep, Türkiye on Jun 27-Jun 28, 2025, Publisher:IEEE, 2025, https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/11101869, Ref, SCOPUS, SJR ( - 2024)
Ioannis Patias, Task-oriented and process-oriented approaches to advanced technologies deployment – pros and cons, 15th International Conference on Business Information Security BISEC’2024, Publisher:CEUR Workshop Proceedings (CEUR-WS.org, ISSN 1613-0073) , 2024, ISSN (online):1613-0073, Ref, SCOPUS, SJR (0.177 - 2022)
Ioannis Patias, Dafinka Miteva, Elitsa Peltekova, Using Old Lessons for New AI – a trainer for project risk management, FQAS 2025 , Publisher:Springer Nature , 2025, Ref, SCOPUS, SJR (0.352 - 2024)
Ioannis Patias, Cost Distribution in ICT Infrastructure During the AI Era: A Model for Data Centers, Power Grids, and Telecommunications, 2025 7th International Congress on Human-Computer Interaction, Optimization and Robotic Applications (ICHORA), Ankara, Turkiye, Publisher:IEEE, 2025, https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/11017137 Ref, SCOPUS, SJR ( - 2024)
Ioannis Patias, The Evolution of Pricing Models in the AI Age: A Comparative Analysis of Time-Based and Results-Based Approaches , 2025 8th International Conference on Information and Computer Technologies (ICICT), Hawaii-Hilo, HI, USA, 2025, Publisher:IEEE, 2025, pages:417-422, ISSN (print):979-8-3315-0518-9, ISSN (online):2769-4542, doi:doi: 10.1109/ICICT64582.2025.00071., Ref, Web of Science, SCOPUS, SJR ( - 2022)
Ioannis Patias, Dafinka Miteva, Elitsa Peltekova, Michaela Wright, Barbara Gasteiger-Klicpera, Leveraging Large Language Models to Enhance Mental Health Literacy and Diversity Awareness in Adolescents: The me_HeLi-D Project, 2024 8th International Symposium on Innovative Approaches in Smart Technologies (ISAS), 2024, pages:1-5, ISBN:979-8-3315-4010-4, doi:10.1109/ISAS64331.2024.10845582, Ref, SCOPUS, SJR (2 - 2023)
Kalinka Kaloyanova, Ioannis Patias, Students attitudes towards searching, evaluating, and sharing Covid-19 related information, Procedia Computer Science, Elsevier, vol:219, 2023, pages:1444-1452, ISSN (online):1877-0509, doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.procs.2023.01.434, Ref, SCOPUS, SJR (0.505 - 2023)
Ioannis Patias, Ethics education role in STEM people preparation, Bioethics, Medical Ethics and Health Law , editor/s:Prof. Amnon Carmi, Prof. Rui Nunes , Publisher:Mrs Gili Carmi, 2022, pages:142-142, ISBN:978-989-54596-7-4, 2022
Dobromira Bankova, Ioannis Patias, Intellectual property protection: a course introduction, Proceedings of the 15-th International Conference on Information Systems and Grid Technologies (ISGT’2022), editor/s:Vladimir Dimitrov, Vasil Georgiev, Publisher:CEUR Workshop Proceedings , 2022, ISSN (online):1613-0073, http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3191/paper24.pdf, Ref, SCOPUS, SJR (0.177 - 2020), 2022
Toma Tomov, Ioannis Patias, Vasil Georgiev, Intelligent urban environment lab infrastructure design , Proceedings of the 15-th International Conference on Information Systems and Grid Technologies (ISGT’2022), editor/s:Vladimir Dimitrov, Vasil Georgiev, Publisher:CEUR Workshop Proceedings (CEUR-WS.org), 2022, ISSN (online):1613-0073, http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3191/paper21.pdf, Ref, SCOPUS, SJR (0.177 - 2020), PhD, 2022
Boris Robev, Ioannis Patias, Review of service robots’ deployment and adoption, Proceedings of the 15-th International Conference on Information Systems and Grid Technologies (ISGT’2022), editor/s:Vladimir Dimitrov, Vasil Georgiev, Publisher:CEUR Workshop Proceedings , 2022, ISSN (online):1613-0073, http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3191/paper17.pdf, Ref, SCOPUS, SJR (0.177 - 2020), PhD, 2022
Ioannis Patias, Students’ Covid-19 Digital health literacy at Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics, Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski", Proceedings of the 15-th International Conference on Information Systems and Grid Technologies (ISGT’2022), editor/s:Vladimir Dimitrov, Vasil Georgiev, Publisher:CEUR Workshop Proceedings , 2022, ISSN (online):1613-0073, http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3191/paper12.pdf, Ref, SCOPUS, SJR (0.177 - 2020), 2022
Ioannis Patias, Vassil Georgiev, Ethical design for trustworthy solutions: an introduction to the course, Proceedings of the fourteenth International Conference on Information Systems and Grid Technologies (ISGT’2021), Sofia, Bulgaria, May 28-29, 2021, Publisher:CEUR Workshop Proceedings (CEUR-WS.org), 2021, pages:1-8, http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2933/paper1.pdf, ISSN (online):1613-0073, Ref, IR , SCOPUS, SJR (0.18 - 2020), 2021
Ioannis Patias, Vassil Georgiev, R&D ecosystems success factors, Proceedings of the fourteenth International Conference on Information Systems and Grid Technologies (ISGT’2021), Sofia, Bulgaria, May 28-29, 2021, Publisher:CEUR Workshop Proceedings (CEUR-WS.org), 2021, pages: 244-255, http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2933/paper24.pdf, ISSN (online):1613-0073, Ref, IR , SCOPUS, SJR (0.18 - 2020)2021
Kalinka Kaloyanova, Ioannis Patias, Boris Robev, Prototyping Data Management Model and Tasks, CEUR Workshop Proceedings, issue:2933, editor/s:Vladimir Dimitrov, Vasil Georgiev, 2021, pages:256-264, http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2933/paper25.pdf, ISSN (online):1613-0073, Ref, IR , SCOPUS, SJR (0.18 - 2020) 2021
I. Patias, V. Georgiev, Cloud Federation Usage in Engineering and Construction Sector, Proceedings of the thirteenth International Conference on Information Systems and Grid Technologies (ISGT’2020), Sofia, Bulgaria, May 29 – 30, 2020, Publisher:CEUR Workshop Proceedings, 2020, 2656, 2020, pages:200-207, http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2656/paper20.pdf, ISSN (online):1613-0073, Ref, SCOPUS, SJR (0.166 - 2018) 2020
I. Patias, V. Georgiev, Contract Management Issues in System Integration Projects, 2020 III International Conference on High Technology for Sustainable Development (HiTech), editor/s:Georgi MIHOV, Ivan YATCHEV, Publisher:IEEE Catalog Number CFP20Q62-ART, 2020, pages:1-4, ISBN:978-1-7281-8651-1, doi:10.1109/HiTech51434.2020.9363988, https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9363988,Ref, Web of Science2020
Ioannis Patias, ENGINEERING AND CONSTRUCTION PROJECT MANAGEMENT IN THE DIGITAL TWIN ERA, INTERNATIONALCONFERENCE ON INNOVATIONS IN SCIENCE AND EDUCATION, editor/s:Petr Hajek, Publisher:ISE Research Institute, 2020, pages:85-90, ISSN (print):TBD, ISSN (online):TBD, ISBN:978 - 80 - 907722 - 9 - 8, doi: https://doi.org/10.12955/pns.v1.127, https://ojs.cbuic.cz/index.php/pns/article/view/127, Ref2020
Ioannis Patias, Vasil Georgiev, Mobile Medical Applications and Cloud Federation Challenges, 16th World Congress on Public Health 2020, editor/s:Walter Ricciardi and Carlo Signorelli, Publisher: WCPH 2020 - European Journal of Public Health, 2020, pages:5-0, ISSN (print):1101-1262, ISSN (online):1464-360X, doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/eurpub/ckaa165.1029, Ref, IF, IF (2.391 - 2019), др.(Committee on Publication Ethics (COP)2020
I. Patias, V. Georgiev, The Use of Big Data in Medicine and Public Health Policy-Making: Opportunities and Challenges, Proceedings of the thirteenth International Conference on Information Systems and Grid Technologies (ISGT’2020), Sofia, Bulgaria, May 29 – 30, 2020, Publisher:CEUR Workshop Proceedings (CEUR-WS.org), 2020, pages:7-13, http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2656/paper1.pdf, ISSN (online):1613-0073, Ref, SCOPUS, SJR (0.166 - 2018)2020
Patias, I., Evaluation methods for robots taxation, CEUR Workshop ProceedingsVolume 2464, 2019, editor/s:Vladimir Dimitrov, and Vasil Georgiev, Publisher:УНИВЕРСИТЕТСКО ИЗДАТЕЛСТВО „СВ. КЛИМЕНТ ОХРИДСКИ“, 2019, pages:61-66, http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2464/paper6.pdf, ISSN (online):1613-0073, Ref, SCOPUS, SJR (0.166 - 2018)2019
I. Patias, V. Georgiev, Mobile Medical Applications as Instrument in Supporting Patients Compliance, American Journal of Engineering Research (AJER), vol:6, issue:8, 2017, pages:96-102, https://www.ajer.org/papers/v6(08)/N060896102.pdf, 2017
I. Patias, V. Georgiev, Mobile Medical Applications: From Cloud-oriented to Cloud Ready, Proceedings of the Eleventh Mediterranean Conference on Information Systems, Publisher:Association for Information Systems (AIS), 2017, pages:1-11, https://aisel.aisnet.org/mcis2017/6/, Ref, AIS eLibrary2017
Ioannis Patias, Vasil Georgiev, Modeling and Implementation of Bus Rapid Transit corridor based on isolated or coordinated Traffic Prioritization and Automatic Location, Journal of Emerging research and solutions in ICT (https://ersict.org/ersict-02-16-p02/), published by The Faculty of Information and Communication Technologies, University "St. Kliment Ohridski", Bitola, Macedonia, 2016
Ioannis Patias, Vasil Georgiev, Modeling and Implementation of Bus Rapid Transit corridor based on Traffic Prioritization and Automatic Location, Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Applied Internet and Information Technologies (AIIT’2016), http://www.tfzr.uns.ac.rs/aiit/old/archives/AIIT2016/files/proceedings.pdf, Bitola, 3-4 June 2016, 2016, doi:DOI: 10.20544/ERSICT.02.16.P02, 2016
Ioannis Patias, Roboethics: questions related to the implementation of robots, Proceedings of the 10th International Conference ISGT’2016 (Information Systems & Grid Technologies), https://isgt.fmi.uni-sofia.bg/proceedings/ISGT_2016_body.pdf, Sofia, Bulgaria, September, 2016
Ioannis Patias, The necessity of Project Management (PM) capacities and Organizational Flexibility (OF) for the successful implementation of complex projects in Municipalities, proceedings of the 10th International Conference ISGT’2016 (Information Systems & Grid Technologies), https://isgt.fmi.uni-sofia.bg/proceedings/ISGT_2016_body.pdf, Sofia, Bulgaria, September, 2016
I. Patias, V. Georgiev, Embedded Architecture of Tolls Collecting System, Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Information Systems & Grid Technologies ISGT’2015, 2015, pages:152-159, https://isgt.fmi.uni-sofia.bg/proceedings/ISGT15_body.pdf, doi:ISSN 1314-4855, Ref, International 2015
I. Patias, V. Georgiev, Traffic Prioritization System Based on Embedded Components, Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Information Systems & Grid Technologies ISGT’2015, Publisher:St. Kliment Ohridski University Press, 2015, pages:116-123, https://isgt.fmi.uni-sofia.bg/proceedings/ISGT15_body.pdf, doi:ISSN 1314-4855, Ref, International 2015
Ioannis Patias, Apostolos Karafillidis, Ivan Momtchev, Automation of the representation in knowledge-based configuration systems with Zoomable User Interface, Proceedings of the 16th International Conference SAER 2002 (Systems for Automation of Engineering and Research), editor/s:Angel Popov, Radi Romanski, Aristotel Tentov et al, Publisher:Printing House of Union of Scientists in Bulgaria , 2002, pages:207-211, ISBN:954-8329-42-5, International 2002
Ioannis Patias, Apostolos Karafillidis, Ivan Momtchev, Paradigmatic application of knowledge-based configuration system with Zoomable User Interface, Proceedings of the 16th International Conference SAER 2002 (Systems for Automation of Engineering and Research), editor/s:Angel Popov, Radi Romanski, Aristotel Tentov et al , Publisher:Printing House of Union of Scientists in Bulgaria , 2002, pages:202-206, ISBN:954-8329-42-5, International 2002
Ioannis Patias, Ivan Momtchev, A comparison analysis of knowledge-based configuration systems , Proceedings of the 15th International Conference SAER 2001 (Systems for Automation of Engineering and Research), editor/s:Angel Popov, Radi Romanski , Publisher:Printing House of Union of Scientists in Bulgaria , 2001, pages:205-209, ISBN:954-8329-33-6, International2001
Ioannis Patias, Ivan Momtchev, A Zoomable User Interface – functions and characteristics, Proceedings of the 14th International Conference «SAER 2000» (Systems for Automation of Engineering and Research), editor/s:Angel Popov, Radi Romanski , Publisher:Printing House of Union of Scientists in Bulgaria , 2000, pages:149-153, ISBN:954-8329-22-0, International2000
Ioannis Patias, Ivan Momchev, Adaptive interface architecture for knowledge-based configuration systems, Proceedings of the CECS 2000 (Communication Electronics and Computer Science), editor/s:I. Momchev, I. Madjarov (Session: Computer Systems), Publisher:Printing House of Union of Scientists in Bulgaria , 2000, pages:231-235, International2000
Ioannis Patias, Ivan Momtchev, Zoomable User's interface application in knowledge-based configuration systems, Proceedings of the 14th International Conference «SAER 2000» (Systems for Automation of Engineering and Research), editor/s:Angel Popov, Radi Romanski , Publisher:Printing House of Union of Scientists in Bulgaria , 2000, pages:154-158, ISBN:954-8329-22-0, International 2000
I. Patias, Iv. Momtchev, PCNET: An Expert System for configuring PC-based LAN’s, Proceedings of the 8th International Conference «SAER ‘94» (Systems for Automation of Engineering and Research), editor/s:Angel Popov, Publisher:Printing House of Union of Scientists in Bulgaria , 1994, pages:311-315, ISBN:954-8329-06-9, International1994
I. Patias, Iv. Momchev, The Use of Knowledge-based configuration system technology for PC’s, Proceedings of the 8th International Conference «SAER ‘94» (Systems for Automation of Engineering and Research), editor/s:Angel Popov, Publisher:Printing House of Union of Scientists in Bulgaria , 1994, pages:316-320, ISBN:954-8329-06-9, International1994
Books
Ioannis Patias "GPT as GPT / Generative Pre-trained Transformer as General-Purpose Technology/", ISBN: 978-954-07-6293-7, St. Kliment Ohridski University Press, Bulgaria, 2026.
Ioannis Patias, “Application Models of the Embedded Systems Software Architecture in Modern Entrepreneurship”, ISBN: 978-954-07-5018-7, University Press „Sv. Kliment Ohridski “ (https://unipress.bg/), Bulgaria, 2020.
Vasil Georgiev, Ioannis Patias, Christo Christov, “Autonomous Systems: platforms, applications, perspectives – Chapter sensors, and Chapter roboethics”, ISBN:978-954-07-5033-0, University Press „Sv. Kliment Ohridski “ (https://unipress.bg/), Bulgaria, 2020.
Ioannis Patias, Sylvia Ilieva, “Project Risk Management” ISBN:978-954-07-4262-2, University Press „Sv. Kliment Ohridski “ (https://unipress.bg/), Bulgaria, 2018.
Ioannis Patias, Vasil Georgiev, “Design of Robotics systems”, ISBN 978-954-07-4207-6, University Press „Sv. Kliment Ohridski “ (https://unipress.bg/), Bulgaria, 2017.