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Rajkumar Buyya

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Redmond Barry Distinguished Professor at University of Melbourne
📍 Greater Melbourne Area, Australia

Rajkumar Buyya is a Redmond Barry Distinguished Professor at the University of Melbourne, where he directs the Cloud Computing and Distributed Systems Laboratory. He is also the founding CEO of Manjrasoft, a university spin-off. A prolific author with over 900 publications, he is a global leader in cloud computing. People often describe him as a "visionary researcher" and a "leader" in his field.

Outside of his extensive academic and entrepreneurial work, Rajkumar has a deep interest in spiritual philosophy. He frequently leads readings and discussions on the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, a foundational Hindu text, at ISKCON Melbourne, exploring the practical application of ancient wisdom in modern life.

He is ranked as the worlds #1 most-cited and most-productive author in Cloud Computing.

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Experience
28 Years
Current Role
Redmond Barry Distinguished Professor
Job Level
Mid-senior
Location
Greater Melbourne Area, Australia
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Topics Rajkumar cares about

Cloud & Edge Computing
His entire career is built around this, from founding the CLOUDS lab and Manjrasoft to authoring the textbook "Mastering Cloud Computing".
Technology Commercialization
He founded Manjrasoft as a spin-off from the University of Melbourne to commercialize innovations from his academic research.
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Career

Work history

9-2017
Redmond Barry Distinguished Professor
University of Melbourne
6-2014
Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Software: Practice and Experience (SPE)
Wiley-Blackwell
12-2012 - 12-2016
Future Fellow of Australian Research Council (ARC)
University of Melbourne
11-2012 - 4-2015
Editor-in-Chief (EiC) of the IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing (TCC)
IEEE
1-2010 - 9-2017
Professor
University of Melbourne
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Media appearances

How Melbourne University combines clouds to compute. Featured in Australian Financial Review
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Education
1-1999 - 4-2002
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
Monash University
1998 - 1998
PhD (1st year)
QUT (Queensland University of Technology)
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