About the speaker of the tutorial on Utility-Oriented Grid Computing and the Gridbus Middleware
Dr. Rajkumar Buyya is an Associate Professor and Reader of
Computer Science and Software Engineering; and Director of the Grid Computing
and
Distributed Systems (GRIDS) Laboratory at the University of Melbourne,
Australia. He received B.E and M.E in Computer Science and Engineering from
Mysore and Bangalore Universities in 1992 and 1995 respectively; and Doctor
of Philosophy (PhD) in Computer Science and Software Engineering from Monash
University, Melbourne, Australia in 2002. He was awarded Dharma Ratnakara
Memorial Trust Gold Medal in 1992 for his academic excellence at the
University of Mysore, India. He received Richard Merwin Award from the IEEE
Computer Society (USA) for excellence in academic achievement and
professional efforts in 1999. He received Leadership and Service Excellence
Awards from the IEEE/ACM International Conference on High Performance
Computing in 2000 and 2003. He received "Research Excellence Award" from the
University of Melbourne for productive and quality research in computer
science and software engineering in 2005. The CiteSeer Research Index in
August 2006 ranked Dr. Buyya's research work among the top 0.73% most cited
authors in Computer Science (and 0.28% in the list with article citation
counts normalized by publication year) out of 790,329 authors in the
database.