Prof. Rajkumar Buyya
Fellow
of IEEE
Director, Cloud Computing and Distributed Systems (CLOUDS) Laboratory
The University of Melbourne, Australia
Dr. Rajkumar Buyya is a Redmond Barry Distinguished Professor
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 served as a Future Fellow of the Australian
Research Council during 2012-2016. He has authored over 625
publications and seven text books including "Mastering Cloud
Computing" published by McGraw Hill, China Machine Press, and
Morgan Kaufmann for Indian, Chinese 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=118, g-index=255,
72,200+ citations). Microsoft Academic Search Index ranked Dr.
Buyya as #1 author in the world (2005-2016) for both field
rating and citations evaluations in the area of Distributed and
Parallel Computing. "A Scientometric Analysis of Cloud Computing
Literature" by German scientists ranked Dr. Buyya as the World's
Top-Cited (#1) Author and the World's Most-Productive (#1)
Author in Cloud Computing. Dr. Buyya is recognized as a "2016
Web of Science Highly Cited Researcher" by Thomson Reuters, a
Fellow of IEEE, and Scopus Researcher of the Year 2017 with
Excellence in Innovative Research Award by Elsevier for his
outstanding contributions to Cloud computing.
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
TCSC. Manjrasoft's Aneka Cloud technology developed under his
leadership has received "2010 Frost & Sullivan New Product
Innovation Award". Recently, Dr. Buyya
received "Mahatma Gandhi Award" along with Gold Medals for his
outstanding and extraordinary achievements in Information
Technology field and services rendered to promote greater
friendship and India-International cooperation. He served as the
founding Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Cloud
Computing. He is currently serving as Co-Editor-in-Chief of
Journal of Software: Practice and Experience, which was
established over 45 years ago. For further information on
Dr.Buyya, please visit his cyberhome: www.buyya.com.
Prof. Tang Loon Ching
Director,
Temasek Defence Systems Institute
National University of Singapore, Singapore
Professor TANG Loon Ching is a Professor at the Department of Industrial & Systems Engineering (ISE) and the Director of Temasek Defence Systems Institute in National University of Singapore (NUS). LC Tang obtained his PhD in the field of operations research from Cornell University in 1992 under the NUS Overseas Scholarship. He has published widely in many leading international journals in the field of IEOM. He was presented the IIE Transactions 2010 Best Application Paper Award and the prestigious Ralph A. Evans/P.K. McElroy Awards for the best paper presented at 2011 Reliability and Maintainability Symposium. The latter award is widely recognized as a hallmark of excellence in the field of reliability and maintenance engineering the first time, and was the first time it went to authors affiliated to an Asian University in its 58-year history. He has been named 2014 IEOM Outstanding Educator by the IEOM Forum. He is an elected Fellow of the International Society of Engineering Asset Management.
LC Tang is the editor of Quality and Reliability Engineering International and has been on the editorial review board of the Journal of Quality Technology, the flagship journal of American Society for Quality, since 2006, among others. He is the main author of the book: Six Sigma: Advanced Tools for Black Belts and Master Black Belts (which won the inaugural Masing Book Prize by International Academy of Quality); and a co-author of Markov-Modulated Processes and Semiregenerative phenomena. He is one of the founding members of Global Ports Research Alliance, IIE Asian Network and the steering committee of Logistics and Maritime Systems Conference Series; and has served as the General Chair of these conference series. Besides being active in the forefront of research in Industrial Engineering and Operations Management, LC Tang has also been engaged as consultant/trainer by many government agencies and MNCs in their enterprise transformation initiatives. To-date, he has trained and mentored more than 60 Master Black Belts and provided training to more than 3000 analysts, engineers and managers, from Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Israel, China, USA, Indonesia, India and the Philippines in the areas of Lean Six Sigma, Design for Six Sigma, Engineering Asset Management, Operations Research and Reliability Engineering.