Keynote Speaker
| Speaker Name | Dr. Rajkumar Buyya |
| Title of Talk | Innovative Cloud and BigData Computing with Aneka Platform |
Biography
Dr. Rajkumar Buyyais Professor of Computer Science and Software Engineering, Future Fellow of the Australian Research Council, and Director of the Cloud Computing and Distributed Systems (CLOUDS) Laboratory at the University of Melbourne, Australia. He is also serving as the founding CEO of Manjrasoft, a spin-off company of the University, commercializing its innovations in Cloud Computing. He has authored over 450 publications and four text books including “Mastering Cloud Computing” published by McGraw Hill and Elsevier/Morgan Kaufmann, 2013 for Indian and international markets respectively. He also edited several books including “Cloud Computing: Principles and Paradigms” (Wiley Press, USA, Feb 2011). He is one of the highly cited authors in computer science and software engineering worldwide (h-index=78, g-index=156, 27900+ citations). Microsoft Academic Search Index ranked Dr. Buyya as the world’s top author in distributed and parallel computing between 2007 and 2012. He is an “ISI Highly Cited Researcher”.
Software technologies for Grid and Cloud computing developed under Dr. Buyya’s leadership have gained rapid acceptance and are in use at several academic institutions and commercial enterprises in 40 countries around the world. Dr. Buyya has led the establishment and development of key community activities, including serving as foundation Chair of the IEEE Technical Committee on Scalable Computing and five IEEE/ACM conferences. These contributions and international research leadership of Dr. Buyya are recognized through the award of “2009 IEEE Medal for Excellence in Scalable Computing” from the IEEE Computer Society, USA. Manjrasoft’s Aneka Cloud technology developed under his leadership has received “2010 Asia Pacific Frost & Sullivan New Product Innovation Award” and “2011 Telstra Innovation Challenge, People’s Choice Award”. He is currently serving as the foundation Editor-in-Chief (EiC) of IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing. For further information on Dr. Buyya, please visit his cyberhome: www.buyya.com.