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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 serving/served as 
Honorary/Visiting Professor for several elite Universities including Imperial College 
London (UK), University of Birmingham (UK), University of Hyderabad (India), and Tsinghua 
University (China). He has authored over 850 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=162, g-index=360, 141,800+ citations).  "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 "Web of Science Highly Cited Researcher" for seven
times since 2016, a Fellow of IEEE, Foreign Fellow of Academia Europaea, 
Scopus Researcher of the Year 2017 with Excellence in Innovative Research Award by 
Elsevier, and "Lifetime Achievement Awards" from two Indian universities for his 
outstanding contributions to Cloud computing and distributed systems. He has been 
recognised as the "Best of the World" twice for research fields (in Computing Systems in 
2019 and Software Systems in 2021) as well as "Lifetime Achiever" and "Superstar of 
Research" in "Engineering and Computer Science" discipline twice (2019 and 2021) by the 
Australian Research Review. Recently, he received "Research Innovation Award" from IEEE 
Technical Committee on Services Computing and "Research Impact Award" from IEEE Technical 
Committee on 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 50+ countries around the world. He acknowledges all researchers 
and institutions worldwide for their consideration in building on software systems 
created by his CLOUDS Lab and recognising them through citations and contributing to 
their further enhancements. 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". 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 50+ years ago. For further 
information on Dr.Buyya, please visit his cyberhome: www.buyya.com

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