Managing Internet of Things Applications across Edge and Cloud Data Centres

About

Rajiv Ranjan is the university chair professor for Internet of Things research co-director of the Networked and Ubiquitous Systems Engineering (NUSE) Group and academic director of the School of Computing as well as research director of the Newcastle Urban Observatory at Newcastle University UK. He is an expert in algorithms resource management models and distributed system architectures for cloud computing IoT and big data. He has developed novel techniques and distributed system architectures to facilitate performance-driven provisioning of multimedia and IoT applications over multiple cloud datacentres. He serves on the editorial board of international journals such as the IEEE Transactions on Computers IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing and Future Generation Computer Systems. He is a senior member of IEEE. Karan Mitra is an associate professor at Luleå University of Technology Sweden. He received his dual-badge PhD from Monash University Australia and Luleå University of Technology in 2013. He received his MIT (MT) and a PGradDipDigComm from Monash University in 2008 and 2006 respectively. He received his BIS (Hons.) from Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University Delhi India in 2004. His research interests include quality of experience modelling and prediction context-aware computing cloud computing and mobile and pervasive computing systems. From January 2012 to December 2013 he worked as a researcher at CSIRO Canberra Australia. He is a member of the IEEE and ACM. He serves as an associate editor for ACM Computing Surveys. Prem Prakash Jayaraman is a professor in Internet of Things and distributed systems at Swinburne University of Technology Australia. He leads several strategic initiatives including the Factory of the Future the Digital Innovation Lab and the Advanced Manufacturing Industry 4.0 Hub at Swinburne. His research area of interest is broadly around distributed systems particularly IoT cloud computing and mobile computing aiming to establish and develop novel techniques and solutions for deploying and provision resilient and interoperable IoT analytics applications across multi-cloud and smart device/edge environments. Prof. Jayaraman's has received over $18Mil in competitive external research funding from both industry and the Australian Research Council. He has published over 150 papers in several top venues including IEEE Communication and Tutorials ACM Surveys Transaction of Cloud Computing and serves as speciality chief editor associate editor and chairs for several high-quality journals and conference such as Frontiers in Internet of Things ACM Computing Surveys and IEEE Consumer Communication and Networking Conference. He has been awarded twice Vice Chancellor awards for excellence in industry-based research at Swinburne two best paper awards at top tier computer science conferences and one industry award (iAwards 2023) for his pioneering industry-based research. Albert Y. Zomaya is Peter Nicol Russell Chair Professor of Computer Science and Director of the Centre for Distributed and High-Performance Computing at the University of Sydney. To date he has published > 700 scientific papers and articles and is (co-)author/editor of > 30 books. A sought-after speaker he has delivered > 250 keynote addresses invited seminars and media briefings. He was previously Editor in Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Computers (2010-2014) and the IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Computing (2016-2020). Prof. Zomaya is a decorated scholar with numerous accolades including Fellowship of the IEEE the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the Institution of Engineering and Technology. Also he is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science Royal Society of New South Wales Foreign Member of Academia Europaea and Member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts. Some of Prof. Zomaya's recent awards include the Research Innovation Award IEEE Technical Committee on Cloud Computing (2021) the Technical Achievement and Recognition Award IEEE Communications Society's IoT Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks Technical Committee (2022). Prof. Zomaya is a Clarivate 2022 Highly Cited Researcher and his research interests lie in parallel and distributed computing networking and complex systems.