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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.