Mihai Lupu is, since January 2018, the Studio Director of the Data Science Studio at Research Studios Austria Forschungsgesellchaft. Before that he has been a researcher at the TUW as well as a private entrepreneur, consulting small and large companies on search technology, with focus on search in the intellectual property domain. He graduated from the Singapore-MIT Alliance in 2008 and since then has published over 100 publications and three books on search technology. He is now the co-coordinator of Data Market Austria and the Coordinator of the H2020 Safe-DEED project.