Time: 15:30, Jul.19, 2024
Venue: Room 503, SEIE Building
Organizer: SEIE (School of Electronics and Information Engineering)
Content:The digital infrastructure and applications of the 21st century are driven by the paradigms of cloud computing and the Internet of Things (IoT). The rapid development of AI-driven models (e.g., ChatGPT) and emerging applications such as cryptocurrency mining (e.g., Bitcoin) have led to exponential growth in the demand for cloud computing power. To make cloud computing ubiquitous, cloud application platforms must provide: (1) APIs and tools for the rapid creation of scalable and elastic applications; and (2) runtime systems for seamless deployment of applications on geographically distributed data center infrastructures, potentially integrated with quantum computing nodes.Meanwhile, the IoT paradigm enables seamless integration of networks and the physical world, creating opportunities for innovative real-time applications such as smart cities, intelligent robotics, and smart healthcare. Emerging fog and edge computing models support latency-sensitive and real-time IoT applications, offering seamless integration of resources across the entire network from edge to cloud.Against this backdrop of technological advancement, this keynote report will cover:(a) a vision for 21st-century computing and the identification of emerging IT paradigms that enable this vision;(b) new architectures for creating resilient clouds that integrate edge resources and hosted cloud services;(c) Aneka 6G, a sixth-generation cloud application platform for rapid development of big data and AI applications, deployable on both private and public clouds according to user requirements;(d) FogBus, a novel software framework for end-to-end IoT–fog/edge–cloud integration with blockchain-enabled data integrity management;(e) experimental results from deploying big data and IoT applications on resilient clouds across domains such as engineering, healthcare, deep learning and AI, satellite image processing, and natural language processing;(f) QFaaS, a serverless Function-as-a-Service framework with quantum computing support;(g) emerging research directions in cloud, edge, and quantum computing.
Speaker: Rajkumar Buyyareceived his Ph.D. from Monash University, Australia. He is a Redmond Barry Distinguished Professor, IEEE Fellow, 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 Melbourne University, commercializing its innovations in Cloud Computing. He has authored over 850 publications and seven text books including Mastering Cloud Computing published by McGraw Hill, China Machine Press, and Morgan Kaufmann for Indian, Chinese and international markets respectively.He is one of the highly cited authors in computer science and software engineering worldwide (h-index=168, g-index=369, 149,700+ citations). “A Scientometric Analysis of Cloud Computing Literature” by German scientists ranked Dr. Buyya as the World’s Top-Cited (#1) Author and the World’s Most-Productive (#1) Author in Cloud Computing. Dr. Buyya is recognized as a “Web of Science Highly Cited Researcher” by Thomson Reuters, a Fellow of IEEE, Scopus Researcher of the Year 2017 with Excellence in Innovative Research Award by Elsevier, a Fellow of Academia Europea, Lifetime Achiever and Superstar of Australia Research (2021) by The Australian Research Review, and Cloud Architect of the Year 2022 by Oracle for his outstanding contributions to Cloud computing.
