Rajkumar Buyya#
| Membership Number: | 6127 |
| Membership type: | FOREIGN |
| Section: | INFORMATICS |
| Elected: | 2022 |
| Main Country of Residence: | AUSTRALIA |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.buyya.com |
| ORCID: | 0000-0001-9754-6496 |
| Twitter: | @buyya |
| Facebook: | http://www.facebook.com/buyya |
| Linkedin: | https://www.linkedin.com/in/rajkumar-buyya-aba219 |
Present and Previous Positions
- Sept 2017 - present Redmond Barry Distinguished Professor, University of Melbourne, Australia
- 2017 - present Honorary Professor, University of Birmingham, UK.
- 2015 - 2017 Visiting Professor, Imperial College London, UK.
- 2012 - 2016 Future Fellow of the Australian Research Council, University of Melbourne, Australia.
- 2011 - 2014 Intellectual Ventures (IV) Endowed Visiting Chair Professor, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
- 2009 - 2019 Visiting Professor, University of Hyderabad, India.
- 2008 - present Founder and CEO, Manjrasoft Pvt Ltd, Melbourne, Australia
- 2002 - present Director, Cloud Computing and Distributed Systems (CLOUDS) Laboratory, University of Melbourne, Australia
- 2002 - 2017 Lecturer/Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor and Reader/Full Professor, University of Melbourne, Australia
- 1995 - 1998 Senior Scientist, Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC), Bangalore, India
Fields of Scholarship
- Cluster computing
- Grid computing
- Software systems
- Internet of Things
- Data centres
- Parallel and distributed computing
- Edge computing
- Service-oriented computing
- Cloud computing
- Energy-efficient computing
Honours and Awards
- 2022 Ranked 9th in the world and first in Australia in Research.com's 2022 Ranking of Top 1000 Scientists in Computer Science
- 2016 to 2021 (six times) Web of Science Highly Cited Researcher, Clarivate Analytics/Thomson Reuters
- 20121 Lifetime Achiever and Superstar of Research, Engineering and Computer Science discipline, The Australian Research 2021 Magazine, The Australian, November 10, 2021.
- October 2021 IEEE Research Impact Award, IEEE Technical Committee on Cloud Computing
- September 2021 IEEE Research Innovation Award, IEEE Technical Committee on Services Computing
- October 16, 2020 World-wide Rank #1 for Citation Impact during the Single Calendar Year 2020; and Rank #2 for Career-long Citation in Distributed Computing Field, John P. A. Ioannidis et. al. (Stanford University) report on Science-wide Author Databases of Standardized Citation Indicators, PLOS Biology Journal
- 2020 Khwarizmi International Award, KIA Laureate of the 33rd Khwarizmi International Award (KIA-33)
- 2019 The Best of The World, in Computing Systems field, The Australian
- Nov. 10, 2017 "Scopus Researcher of the Year 2017" with Excellence in Innovative Research Award, Elsevier
- 2016 Mahatma Gandhi Excellence Award and Gold Medal, Friendship Forum of India
- 2015 IEEE Fellow (for outstanding contribution to Cloud Computing), IEEE, USA
- 2012 - 2015 Founding Editor-in-Chief, IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing (TCC)
- Aug 31, 2010 Frost & Sullivan New Product Innovation Award, Field: Cloud Management Platforms
- 2009 IEEE TCSC Medal for Excellence in Scalable Computing, IEEE Computer Society TCSCThis award recognizes an individual who made significant and sustained contributions to the scalable computing community through the IEEE Technical Committee on Scalable Computing (TCSC), coupled with an outstanding record of high quality and high impact research
- Jan. 2008 Chris Wallace Award for Outstanding Research Contribution, Computing Research, and Education Association of Australasia (CORE), Australia and New Zealand
- 2008 Distinguished Service Award, Presented by the President of the IEEE Computer Society, USA
- 2007 Vice-Chancellor's Knowledge Transfer Excellence (Commendation) Award, University of Melbourne
- 2005 and 2008 Research Excellence Awards, Computer Science, University of Melbourne, Australia
- 1999/2000 IEEE Computer Society’s Richard Merwin Scholarship Award, Washington, USA
- Dharma Ratnakara Memorial Trust Gold Medal for Academic Excellence at the University of Mysore, India
