Prof Gabriel-Miro Muntean is a Professor with the School of Electronic Engineering, Dublin City University (DCU), Ireland, and Co-Director of the DCU Performance Engineering Laboratory. Prof Muntean was awarded the PhD degree by DCU for research on adaptive multimedia delivery in 2004 and BEng and MEng degrees in Software Engineering by “Politehnica” University of Timisoara, Romania in 1996 and 1997, respectively. He has published over 400 papers in top-level international journals and conferences, authored four books and 22 book chapters, and edited six additional books.

His research interests include quality, performance, and energy saving issues related to multimedia and multiple sensorial media delivery, technology-enhanced learning, and other data communications over heterogeneous networks. Prof. Muntean is an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Broadcasting, the Multimedia Communications Area  Editor of the IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials, and reviewer for important international  journals, conferences, and funding agencies. Prof. Muntean was the Coordinator of the EU Horizon 2020 Project NEWTON and is the Principal Investigator of the EU Horizon 2020 Project TRACTION. He is a senior member of IEEE and IEEE Broadcast Technology Society.