Basilis Gatos received his Electrical Engineering Diploma and his Ph.D. degree, both from the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department of Democritus University of Thrace, Xanthi, Greece. His Ph.D. thesis was on Optical Character Recognition Techniques. In 1993 he was awarded a scholarship from the Institute of Informatics and Telecommunications, NCSR “Demokritos”, where he worked till 1996. From 1997 to 1998 he worked as a Software Engineer at Computer Logic S.A. From 1998 to 2001 he worked at Lambrakis Press Archives as a Director of the Research Division in the field of digital preservation of old newspapers. From 2001 to 2003 he worked at BSI S.A. as Managing Director of R&D Division in the field of document management and recognition.

He is currently working as a Researcher at the Institute of Informatics and Telecommunications of the NCSR “Demokritos”, Athens, Greece. His main research interests are in Image Processing and Document Image Analysis, OCR and Pattern Recognition. He has more than 200 publications in journals and international conference proceedings and has participated in several research programs funded by the European community. He is a program committee member of several international Conferences and Workshops (e.g. ICDAR, ICFHR, DAS, International Workshop on Historical Document Imaging and Processing). He was co-organizer of the 14th International Conference of Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition (ICFHR 2014), of the 12th International Workshop on Document Analysis Systems (DAS 2016) as well as of the 18th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR 2024) that were all held in Greece.