Rajkumar Buyya

Rajkumar Buyya is a Redmond Barry Distinguished Professor in the School of Computing and Information Systems, Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology, at the University of Melbourne, and Director of the Cloud Computing and Distributed Systems (CLOUDS) Laboratory. He earned his B.E. in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of Mysore in 1992, M.E. in Computer Science and Engineering from Bangalore University in 1995, and Ph.D. in Computer Science and Software Engineering from Monash University, Melbourne, in 2002. Buyya joined the University of Melbourne in 2002 as a Lecturer, advancing through positions as Senior Lecturer (2004-2006), Associate Professor and Reader (2007-2009), Professor (2010-2017), and to his current distinguished professorship since 2017. Earlier in his career, he served as Member Technical Staff and Senior Scientist at the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC), Bangalore, India, from 1995 to 1998, and held software engineering roles at Applied Computer Technologists from 1992 to 1994. He is the founding CEO of Manjrasoft Pty Ltd., a University of Melbourne spin-off commercializing cloud computing innovations, and served as an Australian Research Council Future Fellow from 2012 to 2016. Buyya has held honorary and visiting professorships at institutions including Imperial College London, University of Birmingham, Tsinghua University, and University of Hyderabad.

Buyya's research focuses on cloud computing, distributed systems, service and utility computing, resource management and scheduling, green and energy-efficient computing, Internet of Things, high-performance computing, and quantum cloud computing. He has authored or co-authored over 850 publications, including textbooks Mastering Cloud Computing (McGraw Hill/Morgan Kaufmann, 2013), Cloud Computing: Principles and Paradigms (Wiley, 2011), Cloud Data Centers and Cost Modeling (Morgan Kaufmann, 2015), and Object Oriented Programming with Java (McGraw Hill, 2009), garnering over 166,000 citations, an h-index of 179, and g-index of 394. His pioneering economic paradigms for grid and cloud computing have produced influential software technologies such as Gridbus, Cloudbus, CloudSim, and Aneka, adopted by academic institutions and enterprises in over 50 countries. Buyya has secured over $8 million in competitive research grants from organizations including the Australian Research Council, IBM, Microsoft, and Sun Microsystems. His contributions earned fellowships from IEEE, ACM (2026), and Academia Europaea; the IEEE Medal for Excellence in Scalable Computing (2009); Scopus Researcher of the Year (2017); Chris Wallace Award (2008); multiple Web of Science Highly Cited Researcher awards; and Oracle Cloud Architect of the Year (2022). He founded the IEEE Technical Committee on Scalable Computing, co-founded five IEEE/ACM conferences (CCGrid, Cluster, Grid, e-Science, UCC), served as founding Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing, and is Co-Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Software: Practice and Experience. Buyya has delivered over 600 invited talks worldwide.

Professional Email: rbuyya@unimelb.edu.au