ICDPA 2024 | June 19-21, 2024 | Phuket Island, Thailand
Keynote Speaker I
Prof. Rajkumar Buyya
The University of Melbourne, Australia
Speech Title: Neoteric Frontiers in Cloud, Edge, and
Quantum Computing
Abstract: Computing is being transformed to a model
consisting of services that are delivered in a manner
similar to utilities such as water, electricity, gas, and
telephony. In such a model, users access services based on
their requirements without regard to where the services are
hosted or how they are delivered. Cloud computing paradigm
has turned this vision of "computing utilities" into a
reality. It offers infrastructure, platform, and software as
services, which are made available to consumers as
subscription-oriented services. Cloud application platforms
need to offer (1) APIs and tools for rapid creation of
elastic applications and (2) a runtime system for deployment
of applications on geographically distributed Data Centre
infrastructures (with Quantum computing nodes) in a seamless
manner.
The Internet of Things (IoT) paradigm enables seamless
integration of cyber-and-physical worlds and opening
opportunities for creating new class of applications for
domains such as smart cities, smart robotics, and smart
healthcare. The emerging Fog/Edge computing paradigms
support latency sensitive/real-time IoT applications with a
seamless integration of network-wide resources all the way
from edge to the Cloud.
This keynote presentation will cover (a) 21st century vision
of computing and identifies various IT paradigms promising
to deliver the vision of computing utilities; (b) innovative
architecture
for creating elastic Clouds integrating edge resources and
managed Clouds, (c) Aneka 5G, a Cloud Application Platform,
for rapid development of Cloud/Big Data/AI applications and
their deployment on private/public Clouds with resource
provisioning driven by SLAs, (d) a novel FogBus software
framework with Blockchain-based data-integrity management
for facilitating end-to-end IoT-Fog/Edge-Cloud integration
for execution of sensitive IoT applications, (e)
experimental results on deploying Cloud and Big Data/ IoT
applications in engineering, and health care (e.g.,
COVID-19), deep learning/Artificial intelligence (AI),
satellite image processing, and natural language processing
(mining COVID-19 research for new insights) on elastic
Clouds, (f) QFaaS: A Serverless Function-as-a-Service
Framework for Quantum Computing, and (g) directions for
delivering our 21st century vision along with new directions
for future research in Cloud, Edge, and Quantum computing.
Biography: Dr. Rajkumar
Buyya is a Redmond Barry Distinguished Professor and
Director of the Cloud Computing and Distributed Systems
(CLOUDS) Laboratory at the University of Melbourne,
Australia. He is also serving as the founding CEO of
Manjrasoft, a spin-off company of the University,
commercializing its innovations in Cloud Computing. He has
authored over
850 publications and seven textbooks including "Mastering
Cloud Computing" published by McGraw Hill, China Machine
Press, and Morgan Kaufmann for Indian, Chinese and
international markets respectively. Dr. Buyya is one of the
highly cited authors in computer science and software
engineering worldwide (h-index=166 g-index=365, and 145,500+
citations). He has been recognised as a "Web of Science
Highly Cited Researcher" for seven times since 2016, "Best
of the World" twice for research fields (in Computing
Systems in 2019 and Software Systems in 2021/2022/2023) as
well as "Lifetime Achiever" and "Superstar of Research" in
"Engineering and Computer Science" discipline twice (2019
and 2021) by the Australian Research Review.
Software technologies for Grid, Cloud, and Fog computing
developed under Dr.Buyya's leadership have gained rapid
acceptance and are in use at several academic institutions
and commercial enterprises in 50+ countries around the
world. Manjrasoft's Aneka Cloud technology developed under
his leadership has received "Frost New Product Innovation
Award". He served as founding Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE
Transactions on Cloud Computing. He is currently serving as
Editor-in-Chief of Software: Practice and Experience, a
long-standing journal in the field established 50+ years
ago. He has presented over 700 invited talks (keynotes,
tutorials, and seminars) on his vision on IT Futures,
Advanced Computing technologies, and Spiritual Science at
international conferences and institutions in Asia,
Australia, Europe, North America, and South America. He has
recently been recognized as a Fellow of the Academy of
Europe. For further information on Dr.Buyya, please visit
his cyberhome: www.buyya.com
Keynote Speaker II
Prof. Minghua Chen
City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
Biography: Minghua Chen
received his B.Eng. and M.S. degrees from the Department of
Electronic Engineering at Tsinghua University. He received
his Ph.D. degree from the Department of Electrical
Engineering and Computer Sciences at University of
California Berkeley. He is currently a Professor of School
of Data Science, City University of Hong Kong. He received
the Eli Jury award from UC Berkeley (presented to a graduate
student or recent alumnus for outstanding achievement in the
area of Systems, Communications, Control, or Signal
Processing) and several best paper awards, including IEEE
ICME Best Paper Award in 2009, IEEE Transactions on
Multimedia Prize Paper Award in 2009, ACM Multimedia Best
Paper Award in 2012, IEEE INFOCOM Best Poster Award in 2021,
and ACM e-Energy Best Paper Award in 2023. He is currently a
Senior Editor for IEEE Systems Journal and an Executive
Member of ACM SIGEnergy (as the Award Chair). His recent
research interests include online optimization and
algorithms, machine learning in power systems, intelligent
transportation systems, distributed optimization, and
delay-critical networked systems. He is an ACM Distinguished
Scientist and an IEEE Fellow.