Mihai Mitrea is currently an Associate Professor at Institut Mines-Telecom ; Telecom SudParis engineering school in France. He coordinates the HTI (High-Tech Imaging) major at Telecom SudParis and the Multimedia Networking research master program at Institut Polytechnique de Paris.Since 2006, he is coordinating the Telecom SudParis activities inside more than 15 European and French R&D collaborative projects, related to 2D/3D content protection (for in-theater, TV and Internet distribution, blockchain) and collaborative multi-media based application virtualization in cloud. On such occasions, he had the opportunity to jointly work with leading industrial players, like AirBus Defense and Space, Philips, Bull, SFR, Orange Labs or T-Systems.He has been / is (co)supervising 14 PhD thesis at Institut Polytechnique de Paris, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Université ParisDecartes and MINES Paris-Tech. Inside ISO/IEC JTC1/SC29 (a.k.a. MPEG) he is an active contributor to the emerging standards on user description, Internet of Media Things and Smart Contracts for Media.He holds 3 French and international patents in the field of digital content protection, adaptive multimedia scenes and collaborative message compression. He co-authored 3 books, 15 journal papers, 5 book chapters and more than 75 international conference papers. He is Area Editor for the Elsevier Journal Signal Processing: Image Communications and a serves as regular reviewer for IEEE, Elsevier and Springer journals in the fields of multimedia/image processing and applications.Since February 2015, he is vice-president of the Cap Digital's Technical Commission on Digital Content.He is a co-founder of uStartapp (August 2015), a spin-off from Institut Mines-Telecom ; Telecom SudParis for which he also provides his scientific expertise ("concours scientific").