Prof. Rajkumar Buyya
The University of Melbourne, Australia
Speech Title: Neoteric Frontiers in
Cloud, Edge, and Quantum Computing
Abstract: Computing is
being transformed to a model consisting of services that
are delivered in a manner similar to utilities such as
water, electricity, gas, and telephony. In such a model,
users access services based on their requirements
without regard to where the services are hosted or how
they are delivered. Cloud computing paradigm has turned
this vision of "computing utilities" into a reality. It
offers infrastructure, platform, and software as
services, which are made available to consumers as
subscription-oriented services. Cloud application
platforms need to offer (1) APIs and tools for rapid
creation of elastic applications and (2) a runtime
system for deployment of applications on geographically
distributed Data Centre infrastructures (with Quantum
computing nodes) in a seamless manner.
The Internet of Things (IoT) paradigm enables seamless
integration of cyber-and-physical worlds and opening
opportunities for creating new class of applications for
domains such as smart cities, smart robotics, and smart
healthcare. The emerging Fog/Edge computing paradigms
support latency sensitive/real-time IoT applications
with a seamless integration of network-wide resources
all the way from edge to the Cloud.
This keynote presentation will cover (a) 21st century
vision of computing and identifies various IT paradigms
promising to deliver the vision of computing utilities;
(b) innovative architecture
for creating elastic Clouds integrating edge resources
and managed Clouds, (c) Aneka 5G, a Cloud Application
Platform, for rapid development of Cloud/Big Data/AI
applications and their deployment on private/public
Clouds with resource provisioning driven by SLAs, (d) a
novel FogBus software framework with Blockchain-based
data-integrity management for facilitating end-to-end
IoT-Fog/Edge-Cloud integration for execution of
sensitive IoT applications, (e) experimental results on
deploying Cloud and Big Data/ IoT applications in
engineering, and health care (e.g., COVID-19), deep
learning/Artificial intelligence (AI), satellite image
processing, and natural language processing (mining
COVID-19 research for new insights) on elastic Clouds,
(f) QFaaS: A Serverless Function-as-a-Service Framework
for Quantum Computing, and (g) directions for delivering
our 21st century vision along with new directions for
future research in Cloud, Edge, and Quantum computing.
Biography: 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
has authored over
850 publications and seven textbooks including
"Mastering Cloud Computing" published by McGraw Hill,
China Machine Press, and Morgan Kaufmann for Indian,
Chinese and international markets respectively. Dr.
Buyya is one of the highly cited authors in computer
science and software engineering worldwide (h-index=166
g-index=365, and 145,500+ citations). He has been
recognised as a "Web of Science Highly Cited Researcher"
for seven times since 2016, "Best of the World" twice
for research fields (in Computing Systems in 2019 and
Software Systems in 2021/2022/2023) as well as "Lifetime
Achiever" and "Superstar of Research" in "Engineering
and Computer Science" discipline twice (2019 and 2021)
by the Australian Research Review.
Software technologies for Grid, Cloud, and Fog 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. Manjrasoft's Aneka Cloud technology
developed under his leadership has received "Frost New
Product Innovation Award". He served as founding
Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Cloud
Computing. He is currently serving as Editor-in-Chief of
Software: Practice and Experience, a long-standing
journal in the field established 50+ years ago. He has
presented over 700 invited talks (keynotes, tutorials,
and seminars) on his vision on IT Futures, Advanced
Computing technologies, and Spiritual Science at
international conferences and institutions in Asia,
Australia, Europe, North America, and South America. He
has recently been recognized as a Fellow of the Academy
of Europe. For further information on Dr.Buyya, please
visit his cyberhome: www.buyya.com
Prof. Minghua Chen
City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
Biography: Dr. Minghua Chen received his B.Eng. and M.S. degrees from the Department of Electronic Engineering at Tsinghua University. He received his Ph.D. degree from the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at University of California Berkeley. He is currently a Professor of School of Data Science, City University of Hong Kong. He received the Eli Jury award from UC Berkeley (presented to a graduate student or recent alumnus for outstanding achievement in the area of Systems, Communications, Control, or Signal Processing) and several best paper awards, including IEEE ICME Best Paper Award in 2009, IEEE Transactions on Multimedia Prize Paper Award in 2009, ACM Multimedia Best Paper Award in 2012, IEEE INFOCOM Best Poster Award in 2021, and ACM e-Energy Best Paper Award in 2023. He is currently a Senior Editor for IEEE Systems Journal and an Executive Member of ACM SIGEnergy (as the Award Chair). His recent research interests include online optimization and algorithms, machine learning in power systems, intelligent transportation systems, distributed optimization, and delay-critical networked systems. He is an ACM Distinguished Scientist and an IEEE Fellow.