Academic biography

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, Principal and Funded Investigator with Insight and Lero National Research Centres, respectively. 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 26 book chapters and has edited 7 other books, which have attracted about 10,000 citations (H-index=53). 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 coordinated the EU Horizon 2020 project NEWTON and led the DCU team in the EU Horizon 2020 project TRACTION. He is a Fellow of the IEEE and IEEE Broadcast Technology Society.