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Rajkumar Buyya

USERN Advisory Board

Academic Qualifications



  • Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in Computer Science and Software Engineering, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia, 2002.
  • Master of Engineering (M.E.) in Computer Science and Engineering, Bangalore University, India, 1995.
  • Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) in Computer Science and Engineering, University of Mysore, India, 1992.

Research and Teaching Work Experience


Tenured/Continuing Appointments



  • Sept 2017- to date: Redmond Barry Distinguished Professor, University of Melbourne, Australia
  • 2010-Sept 2017: Professor, University of Melbourne, Australia
  • 2012-2016: Future Fellow of the Australian Research Council, University of Melbourne, Australia.
  • 2007-2009: Associate Professor and Reader, University of Melbourne, Australia
  • 2004-2006: Senior Lecturer, University of Melbourne, Australia
  • 2004-2005: StorageTek Fellow of Grid Computing, University of Melbourne, Australia
  • 2002-2004: Lecturer, University of Melbourne, Australia
  • 1997-1998: Member Technical Staff/Senior Scientist, Centre for Development of Advanced Computing, Bangalore, India
  • 1995-1996: Member Technical Staff/Scientist, Centre for Development of Advanced Computing, Bangalore, India
  • 1993-1994: Senior Software Designer, Applied Computer Technologists, Bangalore, India
  • 1992-1993: Software Engineer, Applied Computer Technologists, Bangalore, India

Short Term/Visiting Appointments



  • Feb 2017-to date: Honorary Professor, University of Birmingham, United Kingdom (UK).
  • 2015-2017: Visiting Professor, Imperial College London, UK.
  • 2015-to date: Distinguished Fellow, Institute for Development & Research in Banking Technology (IDRBT), Reserve Bank of India, Hyderabad, India.
  • 2011-2014: Intellectual Ventures (IV) Endowed Visiting Chair Professor, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.
  • 2009-to date: Visiting Professor, University of Hyderabad, India.
  • March 2010 and Jan/Feb 2011: Visiting Professor, A*STAR Institute of High Performance Computing (iHPC), Singapore.
  • 2008- to date: Founder and CEO (Chief Executive Officer), Manjrasoft Private Limited, Melbourne, Australia
  • Aug - Oct 2008: Visiting Academic/Professor for University of Vienna and Innsbruck (Austria), University of Rome and Pisa (Italy), University of Paris (France), University of Karlsruhe (Germany), Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Spain), and University of Hong Kong (China).
  • June 2007: International Lecturer, University of Calabria, Italy
  • July 2006: International Lecturer, Osaka University, Japan
  • Jan. 2003: International Research Fellow, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Tsukuba, Japan
  • 2000: Casual Lecturer, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
  • 1998: Casual Lecturer, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia
  • 1994-1997: Guest Faculty, Bangalore University, India


Track Record at a Glance - Leadership and Excellence: (as of Oct. 2018)


Research:



  1. I have made outstanding contributions to Computer Science, Software Engineering, and Information Technology (IT) research; I have advanced the discipline of Cloud computing and distributed systems with high distinction.
  2. I have co-authored over 600 publications, which include 220 journal papers, 245 conference papers, 65 book chapters, 6 textbooks, and 9 edited research books.
  3. My h-index is 132 and my papers have received over 92,500 citations (ref: Google Scholar).
  4. Five of my recent conference papers received Best Paper Awards. Two of my journal papers received 2009 Outstanding Paper Award from IEEE Communications Society, USA and 2017 Best Paper Award from Elsevier.
  5. I have been successful in obtaining over 35 competitive research grants (includes: 18 from Australian Research Council (ARC) and 7 from companies such as Microsoft and IBM) with colleagues for over $52 million.
  6. I have delivered 72 keynotes at international conferences (held in USA, Canada, Australia, Europe, China, India, Brazil, etc.). I received Chris Wallace Outstanding Researcher Award in 2008 from CORE, Australasia.
  7. I received the 2009 IEEE Medal for Excellence in Scalable Computing from IEEE Computer Society TCSC.
  8. I founded the CLOUDS Laboratory, a research group in Distributed and Cloud Computing and have been serving as its Director. Its outcomes led to recognition of our University as world #1 in Cloud computing research impact.
  9. I have successfully graduated 34 PhD students since 2006. They are now working at top IT companies including Google, IBM, Microsoft, Telstra, and Amazon.
  10. I was elected as a Fellow of IEEE (2015) and was recognized as "Web of Science Highly Cited Researcher" in 2016 and 2017.

Teaching and Curriculum Development:



  1. I offered significant academic leadership and strategic direction for setting up new research programs, development of advanced curriculum, and knowledge transfer and engagements in distributed computing field. I conceived, developed and directed the postgraduate program, Master of Engineering in Distributed Computing (MEDC) from 2005 to 2012. I took major responsibility in promoting and attracting Australian and international students. From 2011, it is offered as Master of Information Technology (MIT) in Distributed Computing and attracts 100+ students each year.
  2. Innovations I have introduced in teaching and research training programs have significantly enhanced the learning experience of Melbourne students and impacted on others internationally.
  3. My vision and leadership in mounting the world's first Masters course in Distributed Computing is internationally recognized -- IEEE published articles on the program and Microsoft sponsored $40K for creating a new teaching lab.

Knowledge Transfer and Engagements:



  1. Software technologies developed by me and my team are in use at many academic institutions and commercial enterprises in over 40 countries around the world, including IBM, HP Labs, Ericsson, Xerox PARC, and Fujitsu.
  2. My work is regularly featured in national and international press/media outlets, which include: The Age, ZDNet, The Hindu, The Australian, Deccan Herald, MIT Technology Review, Nikkei Japan, and Red Herring.
  3. Aneka Cloud technology, commercialized by our spin-off company, Manjrasoft, received the 2010 Frost New Product Innovation Award and the 2011 Telstra Innovation Challenge Award.

Community Services:



  1. I have founded five IEEE/ACM international conferences including CCGrid, Cluster, and e-Science.
  2. I co-founded the IEEE Technical Committee on Scalable Computing and served as the first elected Chair, 2005-2007.
  3. The President of the IEEE Computer Society, USA has recognised my dedicated services to IEEE and computing community by presenting me with the Distinguished Service Award in 2008.
  4. I served as the founding Editor-In-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing during 2012-2015. I am currently serving as Editor-in-Chief of Software: Practice and Experience (Wiley Press) since June 2014.


Honours, Scholarships and Awards



  1. Dharma Ratnakara Memorial Trust Gold Medal for Academic Excellence (securing the I Rank in B.E. Computer Science and Engineering), Mysore/Kuvempu University, Karnataka State, India, 1992.
  2. University Grant Commission (UGC)'s-Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE) Scholarship, Govt. of India, New Delhi, India, 1994-95.
  3. Australian Government International Postgraduate Research Scholarship (IPRS), 1998-2002.
  4. QUT's Postgraduate Research Award (QUT PRA) Scholarship, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia, 1998.
  5. International Lecturer, IEEE Computer Society Chapter Tutorials Program for 1999-2001.
  6. Co-founder and Co-Chair, IEEE Computer Society Task Force on Cluster Computing (TFCC), 1999-2004.
  7. Monash Graduate Scholarship (MGS), Monash University, Melbourne, Australia, 1999-2002.
  8. Distributed Systems Technology Centre (DSTC) Scholarship, DSTC Monash, Brisbane/Melbourne, Australia, 1999-2001.
  9. IEEE Computer Society Richard Merwin Scholarship Award, Washington, USA, 1999/2000, for demonstrating outstanding involvement in an IEEE Computer Society chapter activities, excellence in academic achievement, and promise in future professional efforts.
  10. Contributions and Leadership Award, In Recognition of Excellence Service as Grid 2000 Workshop Chair, 7th International Conference on High Performance Computing (HiPC 2000), December 17-20, 2000, Bangalore, India.
  11. Featured in Who's Who in the World (18th Edition) and Who's Who in Science and Engineering (6th Edition), Marquis Who's Who, USA, 2001.
  12. HPC Challenge Award (an active member of a large international team), IEEE/ACM Supercomputing (SC 2002) Conference, Baltimore, USA, 2002.
  13. Finalist in the HPC Challenge Competition, at the IEEE/ACM Supercomputing Conference (SC 2003), Phoenix, USA. I was Team leader of the Global Data-Intensive Grid Collaboration that put together a world-largest Grid by assembling computing resources contributed by academic and commercial institutions around the world (Australia, Asia, Europe, North America, and South America) and demonstrated 5 key data-intensive Grid applications in scientific and business domains.
  14. Contributions and Leadership Award, In Recognition of Excellence Service as Poster/Presentations Chair, 10th IEEE/ACM International Conference on High Performance Computing (HiPC 2003), December 17-20, 2003, Hyderabad, India.
  15. Certificate of Appreciation, 18th International Symposium on High Performance Computing Systems and Applications (HPCS 2004), May 19, 2004, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
  16. Co-founder and Interim Co-Chair, IEEE Technical Committee on Scalable Computing (TCSC), 2004 - Sept 2005.
  17. Contributions and Leadership Award, In Recognition of Excellence Service as Poster/Presentations Chair, 11th IEEE/ACM International Conference on High Performance Computing (HiPC 2004), December 19-22, 2004, Bangalore, India.
  18. Elected Chair, IEEE Technical Committee on Scalable Computing (TCSC), Oct 2005 - 2007.
  19. Excellence in Research Award, The University of Melbourne, Australia, 2006. In recognition of my outstanding contribution to R&D in computer science and software engineering area.
  20. One of my journal papers noted among the "Top 20 Cited Software Engineering Articles in 1986-2005". Source: The Journal of Information and Software Technology, January 2007.
  21. Vice-Chancellor's Knowledge Transfer Excellence (Commendation) Award, The University of Melbourne, Australia, Nov. 2007.
  22. Best Paper Award, 3rd IEEE International Conference on e-Science and Grid Computing (e-Science 2007, Bangalore, India), Elsevier Science, Dec. 2007. Authors: Hui Li and Rajkumar Buyya; Paper: Model-Driven Simulation of Grid Scheduling Strategies.
  23. Best Research Demo Award, 3rd IEEE International Conference on e-Science and Grid Computing, Dec. 2007. Authors: Jia Yu, Mustafizur Rahman, and Rajkumar Buyya; Software: Gridbus Workflow Engine.
  24. The Chris Wallace Award for Outstanding Research Contribution, The Computing Research and Education Association of Australasia (CORE), Australia and New Zealand, Jan. 2008.
  25. Distinguished Service Award, IEEE Computer Society, USA, May 2008.
  26. Best Paper Award, 16th International Conference on Advanced Computing and Communications (ADCOM 2008, Chennai, India), Dec. 2008. Authors: Saurabh Garg, Pramod Konugurthi, and Rajkumar Buyya; Paper: A Linear Programming Driven Genetic Algorithm for Meta-Scheduling on Utility Grids.
  27. Best Paper Award and Best Student Paper Award, 32nd Australasian Computer Science Conference (ACSC 2009, Wellington, New Zealand), Jan. 2009. Authors: Saurabh Garg, Rajkumar Buyya and Howard J. Siegel; Paper: Scheduling Parallel Applications on Utility Grids: Time and Cost Trade-off Management.
  28. Research Excellence Award (Computer Science and Software Engineering), The University of Melbourne, Australia, 2009.
  29. "2009 Outstanding Paper Award", IEEE Communications Society, USA, 2009. Authors: Rajiv Ranjan, Aaron Harwood, Rajkumar Buyya; Paper: Peer-to-Peer Based Resource Discovery in Global Grids.
  30. 2009 IEEE Medal for Excellence in Scalable Computing, IEEE Computer Society/Technical Committee on Scalable Computing, 2009.
  31. Co-Winner of the 2nd IEEE International Scalable Computing Challenge (SCALE 2009) Award; Entry Title: Megha Workflow Engine: fMRI Brain Image Analysis on Amazon EC2 and S3 Clouds; Contest held at: 9th EEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid (CCGrid 2009), Shanghai, China, May 18-21, 2009.
  32. Scopus Young Researcher of the Year 2010 Award, Finalist in Engineering and Technology Category, Elsevier Science and Universities Australia, March 2010.
  33. Best Paper Award, 24th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications (AINA 2010), Perth, Australia, April 20-23, 2010. Authors: Suraj Pandey, Linlin Wu, Siddeswara Guru, and Rajkumar Buyya. Paper: A Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO)-based Heuristic for Scheduling Workflow Applications in Cloud Computing Environments.
  34. Certificate of Honour and Appreciation, 10th International Conference on Algorithms and Architectures for Parallel Processing (ICA3PP 2010), Busan, South Korea, May 21-23, 2010.
  35. Outstanding Achievement Award, 2010 World Congress in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, and Applied Computing (WorldComp 2010), July 12-15, 2010, Las Vegas, USA.
  36. Google Australia Eureka Prize for Innovation in Computer Science: 2010 Finalist, Australian Museum, Sydney, Australia, Aug 17, 2010.
  37. 2010 Asia Pacific Frost & Sullivan New Product Innovation Award, Field: Cloud Management Platforms, Singapore, Aug 31, 2010.
  38. Co-Winner of the 4th IEEE International Scalable Computing Challenge (SCALE 2011) Award; Entry Title: Scaling LIGO Gravitational Wave Searches with Cloud Computing; Contest held at: 11th EEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Grid Computing (CCGrid 2011), Newport Beach, California, USA, May 23-26, 2011.
  39. IEEE Victoria Best Student Paper Prize, Australia, 2011. Paper: "QoS-aware Deployment of Network of Virtual Appliances Across Multiple Clouds".
  40. Google Australia Eureka Prize for Innovation in Computer Science: 2011 Finalist, Australian Museum, Sydney, Australia, Sept. 6, 2011.
  41. 2011 Telstra Innovation Challenge, People's Choice Award, Telstra, Australia, Nov 2011.
  42. Best Paper Award, 4th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing (UCC 2011), December 5-7, 2011, Melbourne, Australia. Authors: Bahman Javadi, Ruppa Thulasiram and Rajkumar Buyya. Paper: Statistical Modeling of Spot Instance Prices in Public Cloud Environments.
  43. "Hind Rattan (Jewel of India) Award", The 31st International Congress of Non Resident Indians, The NRI Welfare Society of India, New Delhi, India, Jan 2012.
  44. Best Software Prototype Award, Design and Development of an Adaptive Workflow-Enabled Spatial-Temporal Analytics Framework, ICPADS 2012 IEEE International Workshop on Scalable Computing for Big Data Analytics, Singapore, Dec 17-19, 2012.
  45. Future Fellowship, Australian Research Council (ARC), 2012-2016.
  46. Highly Cited Researcher by Thomson Reuters (TR), on computer science list posted by TR in 2013.
  47. World's Top-Cited (#1) Author in Cloud Computing, Source: "A Scientometric Analysis of Cloud Computing Literature" by Leonard Heilig and Stefan Voß from the University of Hamburg, Germany, 2014.
  48. World's Most-Productive (#1) Author in Cloud Computing, Source: "A Scientometric Analysis of Cloud Computing Literature" by Leonard Heilig and Stefan Voß from the University of Hamburg, Germany, 2014.
  49. Samsung Global Research Outreach (GRO) Award, Samsung, Korea, 2014.
  50. Manjrasoft Recognized as one of the Top 20 Cloud Computing Companies, Silicon Review Magazine, USA, Dec. 2014.
  51. Honorary Professor, Amity University, Uttar Pradesh, India, 2014.
  52. Fellow, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), USA, Class 2015.
  53. Reported as #1 in "Top Authors in Distributed and Parallel Computing" Listing in Last 10 Years (2005-2016) for Citations, Microsoft Academic Search, 2016 (accessed on March 29, 2016, please see a copy the first page listing at: http://tinyurl.com/zzqckl4).
  54. Honorary Professor, Hubei Engineering University, China, 2016.
  55. Bharath Nirman Award and Gold Medal, Friendship Forum of India, 2016. Presented by Choudhary Randhir Singh, Honorable Former Governor of Sikkim at the Conference on Economic Growth and National Unity, New Delhi, India, April 25, 2016.
  56. Mahatma Gandhi Award and Gold Medal, Friendship Forum of India, 2016. Presented by G.V.G. Krishnamurthy, Honorable Former Election Commissioner of India at the Conference on Economic Growth and National Unity, New Delhi, India, April 25, 2016.
  57. Manjrasoft Recognized as one of the Top 5 Cloud Applications Companies, Silicon India, USA, Oct. 2016.
  58. IEEE Victorian Section Student Paper Prize (Runner Up), Australia, August 2016. Paper: "iGiraph: A Cost-efficient Framework for Processing Large-scale Graphs on Public Clouds".
  59. 2016 Web of Science Highly Cited Researcher, Thomson Reuters, 2016. Named as one of the World's Top Researchers in Science according to Thomson Reuters report in the categories of Computer Science, "The World's Most Influential Scientific Minds 2016".
  60. Top Scientists by H-Index: Ranked 1 in Australia and 47 Worldwide (Computer Science and Electronics), Guide 2 Research Index, Jan. 2017.
  61. Honorary Professor, University of Birmingham, United Kingdom (UK), 2017.
  62. Best Paper Award, Journal of Network and Computer Applications, Elsevier, May 2017. Authors: Whaiduzzaman, Sookhak, Gani, and Buyya. Paper: A survey on vehicular cloud computing.
  63. Best Paper Award in Computing, 5th International Conference on Advanced Computing, Networking, and Informatics (ICACNI 2017), June 2017. Authors: Jaydeep Das, Arindam Dasgupta, Soumya K. Ghosh, and Rajkumar Buyya. Paper: A Learning Technique for VM Allocation to Resolve Geospatial Queries.
  64. Scopus Researcher of the Year 2017 with Excellence in Innovative Research Award, Elsevier, Nov. 10, 2017.
  65. 2017 Web of Science Highly Cited Researcher, Clarivate Analytics/Thomson Reuters, November 2017. (For contributing multiple Highly Cited Papers during 2005-2015).
  66. Our paper "Internet of Things (IoT): A vision, architectural elements, and future directions" is Ranked as #1 in Computer Science, Top 20 Elsevier Journal Articles from 26 subject areas 2013-2017, Elsevier, the Netherlands, January 2018.
  67. Most Downloaded Publication Award, IEEE Computer Society, USA, January 31, 2018. For paper: "Fog Computing: Helping the Internet of Things Realize its Potential" published in IEEE Computer.
  68. Top Scientists by H-Index: Ranked 1 in Australia and 40 Worldwide (Computer Science and Electronics), Guide 2 Research Index, March 2018.
  69. 2018 Web of Science Highly Cited Researcher, Clarivate Analytics/Thomson Reuters, November 2018. (For contributing multiple Highly Cited Papers during 2006-2016).
  70. Top Scientists by H-Index: Ranked 1 in Australia and 33 Worldwide (Computer Science and Electronics), Guide 2 Research Index, March 2019.
  71. Lifetime Achievement Award, Maharishi Markandeshwar University, Haryana, India, April 19, 2019.
  72. Lifetime Achievement Award, Chandigarh University, Punjab, India, April 24, 2019.
  73. World's Best, Computing Systems field (for quality, volume, and impact), 2019 Australian Research Magazine, The Australian, September 25, 2019.
  74. Lifetime Achievement Leaderboard, Engineering and Computer Science discipline, 2019 Australian Research Magazine, The Australian, September 25, 2019.
  75. 2019 Web of Science Highly Cited Researcher, Clarivate Analytics/Thomson Reuters, Oct/November 2019. (For contributing multiple Highly Cited Papers during 2007-2017).
  76. Khwarizmi International Award, KIA Laureate of the 33rd Khwarizmi International Award (KIA-33), Ministry of Science and Technology, Tehran, Iran, February 17, 2020.
  77. Top Ten Downloaded Article of 2019 Award, Journal of Systems and Software, Elsevier, April 2020. For paper: "FogBus: A Blockchain-based Lightweight Framework for Edge and Fog Computing".


Research Grants and Sponsorships


Funding for Research Projects (from 2002):


Australian Research Council (ARC)



  1. M. Sevior and R. Buyya, "The Development of Data Grids for High Energy Physics", Discovery Project, Australian Research Council (ARC), Australia, 2004-2006. Amount: $510,000.
  2. R. Buyya and A. Harwood, "Economic Scheduling for Efficient Management of Clusters and their Cooperative Federation", Discovery Project, Australian Research Council (ARC), Australia, 2004-2006. Amount: $150,000.
  3. C. Kepert (1), D. Abramson (2) et. al., R. Buyya (9) et. al., P. Turner (43), et. al., and A. Zomaya (50), "Molecular and Materials Structure Network", ARC Research Network Program, Australian Research Council (ARC), Australia, 2004/05 to 2008/09. Amount: $1,500,000.
  4. M. Palaniswami (1) et. al., R. Buyya (6) et. al., R. Evans (14) et. al., R. Kotagiri (21), et. al., and Y. Attikiouzel (50), "ARC Research Network on Intelligent Sensors, Sensor Networks and Information Processing", ARC Research Network Program, Australian Research Council (ARC), Australia, 2004/05 to 2008/09. Amount: $2,250,000.
  5. G. Egan, R. Buyya, I. Mareels, R. Kotagiri, and A. Toga, "Development of e-Research Tools for an MRI Grid Computing Facility", e-Research Initiative, Australian Research Council (ARC), Australia, 2005-2006. Amount: $80,000.
  6. P. Harris, A. Lonie, R. Buyya, S. Thomas, P. Hunter, W. Appelbe, "eResearch Grid Environment for Integration of Distributed Kidney Models and Resources", e-Research Initiative, Australian Research Council (ARC), Australia, 2005-2006. Amount: $124,422.
  7. R. Buyya, QoS-based Scheduling of e-Research Application Workflows on Global Grids, Discovery Project, Australian Research Council (ARC), Australia, 2007-2009. Amount: $319,000.
  8. R. Buyya, A Novel Software System for .NET-based Enterprise Grid Computing, Linkage Project, Australian Research Council (ARC) and Microsoft Corporation, Australia, 2007-2010. Amount: $408,884 (ARC: $278,884 and Microsoft: $130,000).
  9. R. Buyya and J. Abawajy, "InterGrid: Peering Architecture and Policies for Internetworking Disparate Grids", Discovery Project, Australian Research Council (ARC), Australia, 2008-2010. Amount: $216,000.
  10. M. Palaniswami, R. Kotagiri, R. Tucker, I. Atkinson, P. Pathirana, C. Leckie, P. Mendis, R. Buyya, M. Duckham, S. Halgamuge, G. Woods, L. Kulik, E. Tanin, S. Dey, B.N. Vo, K. Smith-Miles, M. Zukerman, BigNet - A Distributed Wireless Sensor Network Testbed, Linkage Infrastructure, Equipment and Facilities (LIEF) grant, Australian Research Council (ARC), Australia, 2008. Amount: $200,000.
  11. R. Buyya, Service Level Agreement (SLA) oriented Resource Allocation for Data Centers and Cloud Computing Systems, Linkage Project, Australian Research Council (ARC), Australia and CA (Computer Associates), Australia, 2009-2011. Amount: $273,000 (ARC: $195,000 and CA: $78,000).
  12. R. Buyya, Megha: Utility Oriented Federation of Cloud Computing Environments for Scaling of Application Services, Discovery Project, ARC, 2010-2012. Amount: $280,000.
  13. M. Palaniswami, P. Mendis, M. Taylor, E. Chung, P. Pathirana, R. Buyya, C. Leckie, M. Duckham, and D. Nandagopal, Internet of Things Testbed for Creating a Smart City, Linkage Infrastructure, Equipment and Facilities (LIEF) grant, Australian Research Council (ARC), Australia, 2012. Amount: $270,000.
  14. M. Palaniswami and R. Buyya, Creating a Smart City Through Internet of Things, Linkage Project, Australian Research Council (ARC), Australia and Partners (City of Melbourne and Arup Pty Ltd), Australia, 2012-2014. Amount: $440,000 (ARC: $350,000 and Partners: City of Melbourne: $60,000 and Arup: $30,000).
  15. R. Buyya, Dynamic Resource Provisioning for Autonomic Management of Cloud Computing Environments, Future Fellowship, Australian Research Council (ARC), 2012-2016. Amount: ~1 million (~$800,000 from ARC + $200000 form UniMelb).
  16. R. Buyya, A. Lachlan, A. Wierman, Resource management algorithms and software systems for green cloud computing, Discovery Project, Australian Research Council (ARC), 2013-2015. Amount: $315,000.
  17. R. Kotagiri, R. Buyya, C. Leckie, and S. Versteeg, Business goals and analytics driven management of cloud computing based information technology infrastructure, Linkage Project, Australian Research Council (ARC) and Computer Associates (CA), Australia, 2013-2016. Amount: $385,000 (ARC: $280,000 and CA: $105,000).
  18. R. Buyya, Algorithms and Software Systems for Management of Software-Defined Clouds, Discovery Project, Australian Research Council (ARC), 2016-2020. Amount: $410,000.
  19. D. Tao, B. Vucetic, R. Kotagiri, E. Nebot, X. Lin, Y. Gao, M. Bennamoun, R. Buyya, T. Baldwin, S. Williams, J. Yuan, and M. Pagnucco, "Whopping Volta GPU Cluster Transforming Artificial Intelligence Research", Linkage Infrastructure, Equipment and Facilities (LIEF) grant, Australian Research Council (ARC), Australia, 2020. Amount: $900,000.

Commonwealth of Australia - Innovation Grants:



  • R. Buyya was part of a team (as one of the contributed staff members from the Universities sector/The University of Melbourne) that successfully bid for eWater CRC led by Prof. Gary Jones. CRC received $ 40.25millon funding from Australian Government administered through the Department of Education, Science and Training (DEST), Australia, 2005-2012.
  • R. Buyya (project manager) and team, The Utility Grid Project: Autonomic and Utility-oriented Global Grids for Powering Emerging E-Research Applications, International Science Linkages, Department of Education, Science & Training, Australia, 2006-2009. Amount: $592,875.
  • Rajiv Ranjan, Rajkumar Buyya, R. K. Shyamasundar, Arkady Zaslavsky, Surya Nepal, Rodrigo N. Calheiros, Shiping Chen, R. K. Ghosh, Armin Haller, Onkar Dabeer, Innovative Solutions for Deployment of BigData and Disaster Management Applications on Clouds, Australia-India Strategic Research Fund (AISRF), Department of Industry, Australia and Dept. of Science and Technology (DST), Govt. Of India, 2013-2017. Amount: $400,000 (Australian team) and Amount: INR 10,200,000 (Indian team).

European Union Projects Grant:



  • R. Buyya was part of a team and the University of Melbourne as an international partner in an European Union funded project led by Prof. Denis Caromel (INRIA, France), "Grids Programming with Components (GridComp): An Advanced Component Platform for an Effective Invisible Grid", European Union, IST-FP6 Program, Europe, 2006-2009. Amount: € 1,928,278.00.

Indian Government Grant:



  • Soumya K. Ghosh (Indian lead) and Rajkumar Buyya (Australian lead), "Spatial Cloud Federation: Orchestration of Multiple Spatial Clouds for Efficient Provisioning of Spatial Services", SPARC (Scheme for Promotion of Academic and Research Collaboration), Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India, 2019-2022, Amount: Indian Rupees 52.8 Lakh (52,80,000).

Industry and Melbourne University



  1. R. Buyya, Chief Investigator, "Resource Management and Scheduling for Peer-to-Peer and Grid Computing", Academic Research Grant--Equipments, Sun Microsystems, Inc, Palo Alto, California, USA, 2001-2002. Amount Equivalent: A$60,000.
  2. R. Buyya, Chief Investigator, "Network Centric High Performance Cluster and Grid Computing Research", Melbourne Early Career Researcher Grant Scheme 2002, The University of Melbourne, Australia, 2001. Amount: A$30,000.
  3. L. Sterling, R. Buyya, G. Moloney, and D. van der Knijff K,  Co-Chief Investigators, "Grid Problem Solving Environment, Service Specification, Brokering and Testing - A Case Study in High Energy Physics", Victorian Partnership for Advanced Computing (VPAC), Melbourne, Australia. Amount: A$115,000.
  4. R. Buyya, Chief Investigator, "Gridbus: Economy and Quality of Service based cluster and grid computing", Academic Research Grant, Sun Microsystems, Inc, Palo Alto, California, USA, 2002. Amount Equivalent: A$20,000.
  5. R. Buyya, Chief Investigator, "Grid Computing: Introduction and Applications -- Courseware Development", Educational Grant Program, Victorian Partnership for Advanced Computing (VPAC), Melbourne, Australia, 2002-2003. Amount: A$35,000.
  6. G. Moloney, R. Buyya, D. Van der Kniff, and M. Sevior, "Engineering Grid Technologies for Distributed Processing of High Energy Physics Applications", Victorian Partnership for Advanced Computing (VPAC), Melbourne, Australia, 2003. Amount: A$66,000.
  7. R. Buyya, Chief Investigator, "Engineering Peer-to-Peer Software Infrastructure for Distributed Computing", Melbourne Early Career Researcher Grant Scheme 2003 (faculty-based), The University of Melbourne, Australia, 2003. Amount: A$10,000.
  8. R. Buyya, Chief Investigator, "Utility-Driven Cluster Scheduler: Economy-based Resource Allocation System for Cluster Computing", Melbourne Linkage Project Seed, The University of Melbourne, Australia, 2003. Amount: A$15,000.
  9. R. Buyya, Chief Investigator, "Tewkesbury Fellowship - Hosting Research Visit of Prof. Kai Hwang, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA", Faculty of Engineering, The University of Melbourne, 2004. Amount: $5000.
  10. R. Buyya, Chief Investigator, "Sponsorship of Chair/Fellow in Grid Computing and Research Collaboration in Data-Intensive Grid Computing", Storage Technology Corporation (StorageTek, USA), 2004-2005. Amount: $120,000.
  11. B. Smith, R. Buyya, and K. Branson, "BioGrid: Web and Grid Services Enabled Molecular Docking for Drug Discovery", APAC Grid Program, Australian Partnership for Advanced Computing (APAC), Canberra, Australia, 2004-2006. Amount: $157,500.
  12. R. Buyya, "Bid Preparation for ARC Centre of Excellence in Grid Computing and eScience", Faculty of Engineering, University of Melbourne, 2004. Amount: A$10,000.
  13. R. Buyya, Chief Investigator, "Collaboration, research and development in Grid Computing to support Singapore's Grid Operations Centre", Singapore Computer Systems(SCS), Singapore, 2004-2005. Amount: S$10,000.
  14. R. Buyya, Chief Investigator, "Establishment of .NET Lab to Support Educational and Research Initiatives", Microsoft Corporation, Australia, 2005-2007. Amount: US$60,000.
  15. R. Buyya, Chief Investigator, "Tewkesbury Fellowship - Hosting Research Visit of Prof. Manish Parashar, Rutgers: The State University of New Jersey, USA", Faculty of Engineering, The University of Melbourne, 2006. Amount: $4000.
  16. S. O'Leary, R Dowell, B. Pyman, P. Harris, G. Kennedy, L. Wise, A. Goodwin, N. Eizenberg, C. Briggs, E. Reynolds, A. Smith, M. Galea, R. Buyya, E. Kazmierczak, and L. Irving, "Haptic and 3D Visual Immersive Environments", SRIF (Strategic Research Infrastructure Fund). The University of Melbourne (+ Faculty of Medicine and Faculty of Engineering), 2006-2008. Amount: $500,000.
  17. J. Ellershaw, M. Duckham, A. Kealy, S. Winter, R. Tucker, J. Papandriopoulos, A. Overmars, R. Kotagiri, R. Buyya, L. Kulik, E. Tanin, P. Mendis, H. Malano, D. Smith, "Sensor Network Student Laboratory and Research Facility", A. E. Rowden White Foundation Grant, 2007-2008. Amount: $100,000
  18. R. Buyya and S. Pandey, "Access to Amazon EC2 and S3 Public Cloud", Academic Research Grant-Equipment Access, Amazon Inc., Seattle, USA, 2010. Amount Equivalent: US$6,000.
  19. R. Buyya, "Desktop Virtualisation and Cloud Computing", Academic Research Grant--Equipments, IBM, Melbourne, Australia, 2010-2011. Amount Equivalent: A$12,000.
  20. A. Melatos, G. Taylor, R. Buyya, R. Kotagiri, P. Farrell, W. Moran, P. Hall, and A. Delaigle, "Designing the LIGO Australia Data Centre", Sustainable Research Excellence (SRE) Implementation Fund, The University of Melbourne, 2011. Amount: $120,000. (Central: $95,000 and MSE: $25,000 MSE).
  21. R. Buyya and Aneka Team, "Scaling e-Science Applications using Azure Public Cloud", Academic Research Grant-Equipment Access, Microsoft, Seattle, USA, 2010-2013. Amount Equivalent: Approx. US$180,000.
  22. S. Pandey and R. Buyya, "Amazon AWS credits for Cloud Computing Project in Australia - LIGO Australia Project", Academic Research Grant-Equipment Access, Amazon Inc., Seattle, USA, 2011. Amount Equivalent: US$6,000.
  23. R. Buyya, Z. Xiao, Y. Cui, Y. Wu, J. Cao, U. Bellur, R. K. Shyamasundar, R. K. Pisipati, B. Sinha, S. K. Nandy, J. Lakshmi, and T. V. Prabhakar, Melbourne-Chindia Cloud Computing (MC3) Research Network, International Research and Research Training Fund (IRRTF), The University of Melbourne, Australia, 2013-2016. Amount: $150,000.
  24. R. Buyya and R. Calheiros, "A Platform for Software Defined Network (SDN)-based Green Cloud Computing", Global Research Outreach (GRO) Program, Samsung, South Korea, 2014-2015. Amount: US$100,000 (~A$132,000).
  25. R. Buyya and R. Calheiros, "Internet of Things (IoT) Programming Platform on Azure Public Cloud", Academic Research Grant-Equipment Access, Microsoft, Seattle, USA, 2014. Amount Equivalent: Approx. US$40,000.
  26. R. Buyya and A. Vahid, "Data Science for Enabling Prediction and Classification of Pedestrians Flows in Melbourne City", Academic Research Grant-Equipment Access, Microsoft, Seattle, USA, 2015-2017. Amount Equivalent: Approx. US$20,000.
  27. R. Buyya and M. Assuncao, Algorithms for Placement and Reconfiguration of Data Stream Processing Services for IoT Applications, French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS)-Melbourne University Cooperation, The University of Melbourne, Australia, 2017-2018. Amount: $10,000.
  28. R. Buyya, "Auto-Scaling and Resource Coordination of Network Slices in Software-Defined Clouds", Huawei Innovation Research Program (HIRP), Huawei, China, Sept. 2017-2018. Amount: US$75,000 (~A$100,000).
  29. R. Buyya, A. Toosi, and M. Sossa, "Cost-Efficient Orchestration of Containers in Clouds", Global Research Outreach (GRO) Program, Samsung, South Korea, Oct. 2017-2018. Amount: US$120,000 (~A$150,000).

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