Prof. PhD GABRIEL-MIRO MUNTEAN
School of Electronic Engineering, Dublin City University, Ireland
Topic: Innovative Solutions for High Quality Rich Media Content Delivery in 5G and Beyond Networks
Prof. Gabriel-Miro Muntean is a Professor with the School of Electronic Engineering, Dublin City University (DCU), Ireland, where he obtained his Ph.D. degree in 2003 for research on quality-oriented adaptive multimedia streaming over wired networks. He was awarded the B.Eng. and M.Sc. degrees in Software Engineering from the Computer Science Department, Politehnica University of Timisoara, Romania in 1996 and 1997 respectively. Prof. Muntean is co-director of the DCU Performance Engineering Laboratory and Investigator with Insight and Lero National Research Centres. His research interests include quality-oriented and performance-related issues of adaptive multimedia delivery, performance of wired and wireless communications, energy-aware networking and personalized technology-enhanced learning. Prof. Muntean has published over 450 papers in prestigious international journals and conferences, has authored 4 books and 25 book chapters and has edited 7 other books, which have attracted over 8500 citations. Prof. Muntean has supervised successfully 25 PhD students and 15 postdoctoral researchers. He is an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Broadcasting, Multimedia Communications Area Editor of IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials and reviewer for other important international journals, conferences, and funding agencies. He was the coordinator of the EU Horizon 2020 project NEWTON and leads the DCU team in the EU Horizon 2020 project TRACTION. He is a senior member of IEEE, and IEEE Broadcast Technology Society.