KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
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: 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.