Program

• Keynote Speakers

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  Carolina Cruz-Neira, Agere Chair Professor in Computer Science, College of Engineering and Computer Science, University of Central Florida

  Biography: Dr. Carolina Cruz-Neira, a member of the National Academy of Engineering, is a pioneer in the areas of virtual reality (VR), interactive visualization, and digital twins. Her work has been translated to standard tools in industry, government, and academia. She is known world-wide for being the creator of the CAVE VR system, for transferring research into practice by spearheading several Open-Source initiatives, such as VR Juggler, and by leading entrepreneurial initiatives to commercialize research. She has over 150 publications and, together with her collaborators, has been awarded over $400 million in grants, contracts, and donations. She is recognized for founding successful VR research centers: the Virtual Reality Applications Center at Iowa State University, the Louisiana Immersive Technologies Enterprise, and the Emerging Analytics Center at the University of Arkansas. She serves on international technology boards and government technology advisory committees. One of her recent roles was being part of the National Academies report on Foundational Research Gaps and Future Directions for Digital Twins. She enjoys intersecting her research with the arts and the humanities through dance performances and museum installations. She has been named one of the top innovators in virtual reality and one of the top three greatest women visionaries in VR. She is the first person inducted to the National Academy of Engineering for contributions to immersive technologies and VR, she is a member of the IEEE VR Academy, an IEEE Fellow, an ACM Computer Pioneer, an AWE XR Hall of Fame member, and a Modeling and Simulation Hall of Fame; She received the IEEE VR Achievement Award and the International Digital Media & Arts Society Distinguished Career Award among many national and international recognitions. She has given numerous keynote addresses, and she advises governments on how VR can help to give industries a competitive edge leading to regional economic growth. She has appeared on numerous national and international TV shows and podcasts as an expert on her discipline and several documentaries have been produced about her life and career. Currently, Dr. Cruz is the Agere Chair in Computer Science at the University of Central Florida.

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  Professor Rajkumar Buyya, Director, Cloud Computing and Distributed Systems (CLOUDS) Lab, The University of Melbourne, Australia CEO, Manjrasoft Pvt Ltd, Melbourne, Australia

  Title: Neoteric Frontiers in Cloud and Quantum Computing
  

  Abstract: The twenty-first-century digital infrastructure and applications are driven by Cloud computing and Internet of Things (IoT) paradigms. The Cloud computing paradigm has been transforming computing into the 5th utility wherein “computing utilities” are commoditized and delivered to consumers like traditional utilities such as water, electricity, gas, and telephony. It offers infrastructure, platform, and software as services, which are made available to consumers as subscription-oriented services on a pay-as-you-go basis over the Internet. Its use is growing exponentially with the continued development of new classes of applications such as AI-powered models (e.g., ChatGPT) and the mining of crypto currencies such as Bitcoins. To make Clouds pervasive, Cloud application platforms need to offer (1) APIs and tools for rapid creation of scalable and 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 classes of real time applications such as smart cities, smart robotics, and smart healthcare. The emerging Fog/Edge computing models 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 emerging IT paradigms that make it easy to realize the vision of computing utilities; (b) innovative architecture for creating elastic Clouds integrating edge resources and managed Clouds, (c) Aneka 6G, a 6th generation Cloud Application Platform, for rapid development of Big Data/AI applications and their deployment on private/public Clouds driven by user requirements, (d) a novel FogBus software framework with Blockchain-based data-integrity management for end-to-end IoT-Fog/Edge-Cloud integration for execution of real time IoT applications, (e) experimental results on deploying Big Data/IoT applications in engineering, health care (e.g., COVID-19), deep learning/Artificial intelligence (AI), satellite image processing, and natural language processing (mining COVID-19 literature for new insights) on elastic Clouds, (f) QFaaS: A Serverless Function-as-a-Service Framework for Quantum Computing, and (g) new directions for emerging 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=169 g-index=373, and 154,200+ citations). He graduated 60 PhD students who are working in world-leading research universities and high-tech companies such as Microsoft, Google, and IBM. He has been recognized as IEEE Fellow, a “Web of Science Highly Cited Researcher” for seven times since 2016, the “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, Fog, Quantum 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 54+ years ago. He has presented over 750 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

• Technical Program Committee

  • Abdolreza Abhari – Ryerson University
  • Mohamed-Amine Abrache – LITL Laboratory
  • Leticia Abrica – Universidad del Mar
  • Petra Ahrweiler – Johannes Gutenberg University
  • Ajla Aksamija – School of Architecture, University of Utah
  • Maksudul Alam – Oak Ridge National Laboratory
  • Raid Al-Aomar – Industrial Engineering, German Jordanian University
  • Sara Alsaadani – AASTMT
  • Haşim Altan – Prince Mohammad bin Fahd University
  • Mohamed Aly Etman – SUNY University at Buffalo
  • Anastasia Anagnostou – Brunel University London
  • Philipp Andelfinger – Nanyang Technological University
  • Matteo Anedda – University of Cagliari
  • Patricia Arroba – Universidad Politecnica de Madrid
  • Kuldip Singh Atwal – George Mason University
  • Michel Audette – Old Dominion University
  • Danielle Azar – Lebanese American University
  • Roger Azevedo – University of Central Florida
  • Ahmad Bany Abdelnabi – School of Modeling Simulation and Training
  • Souvik Barat – Tata Consultancy Services Research
  • Ankica Barisic – Universite Cote d’Azur
  • Simon Barner – Fortiss
  • Fernando Barros – University of Coimbra
  • Chad Bates – George Mason University
  • Peristera Baziana – University of Thessaly
  • Logan Beaver – Old Dominion University
  • Stijn Bellis – University of Antwerp
  • Gisele Bennett – MEPSS LLC
  • Anamaria Berea – George Mason University
  • Rajinder Bhandal – Leeds University Business School
  • Raheleh Biglari – PhD student
  • Paul-Antoine Bisgambiglia – CNRS – University of Corsica
  • Biswajit Biswal – South Carolina State University
  • Maria Blas – Instituto de Desarrollo y Diseño INGAR (UTN-CONICET)
  • Dominique Blouin – Telecom Paris, Institut Polytechnique de Paris
  • Paolo Bocciarelli – University of Rome Tor Vergata
  • Biayna Bogosian – Arizona State University
  • Guillermo Botella – Complutense University of Madrid
  • Frédéric Boulanger – Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS, LMF, CentraleSupélec
  • Alexandros-Apostolos Boulogeorgos – University of Western Macedonia
  • Johannes Braumann – Robots in Architecture | UfG Linz
  • Andrés Bravo – Eviden
  • Samira Briongos Herrero – NEC Laboratories Europe
  • Alessio Bucaioni – Mälardalen University
  • Michael Budig – Singapore University of Technology and Design
  • Annetta Burger – Oak Ridge National Laboratory
  • Rajkumar Buyya – University of Melbourne
  • Lorena Cadavid – Universidad Nacional de Colombia
  • Carmen Caiseda – Inter American University of PR
  • Mert Canatan – University of Florida
  • Roman Cardenas – Universidad Politecnica de Madrid
  • Gustavo Carneiro – Regulatory Agency for Water, Energy and Sanitation (ADASA)
  • Rodrigo Castro – Universidad de Buenos Aires
  • Ana Cavalcanti – University of York
  • Deniz Cetinkaya – Bournemouth University
  • Ayush Chopra – Media and Data Science Research Lab, Adobe
  • Angelos Chronis – Austrian Institute of Technology
  • Franco Domenico Cicirelli – ICAR-CNR
  • Thomas Clemen – Hamburg Univ. of Applied Sciences
  • Andrew Collins – Old Dominion University
  • Walter Commerell – THU
  • Ugo Maria Coraglia – Alma Mater Studiorum – University of Bologna
  • Milan Cornelis – University of Antwerp
  • Drury Crawley – Bentley Systems
  • Maximiliano Cristia – Universidad Nacional de Rosario
  • Gabriele D’Angelo – University of Bologna
  • Ron Dahlgren – University of Central Florida
  • Andrea D’Ambrogio – University of Rome Tor Vergata
  • Joy Datt – MITRE Corporation
  • Juan De Anton Heredero – University of Valladolid
  • Robson De Grande – Brock University
  • Francesco De Luca – Tallinn University of Technology
  • Paul De Meulenaere – University of Antwerp
  • Pieter de Wilde – Lund University
  • Benjamin De Witte – ETHICS 7446 laboratory
  • Julien Deantoni – I3S, Université Cote d’Azur
  • Alberto Antonio Del Barrio Garcia – Complutense University of Madrid
  • Joachim Denil – University of Antwerp
  • Stephen Dipple – Carnegie Mellon University
  • Clement Dluzniewski – Université Catholique de Lille
  • Sazana Dragicevic – Simon Fraser University
  • Raphael Duboz – CIRAD
  • Jamal El Hachem – University of South Brittany
  • Mariane El Kassis – IMT – Mines Alès
  • Mohaiad O. Elbasheer – University of Calabria
  • Joaquin Entrialgo – Universidad de Oviedo
  • Elif Erdine – Architectural Association (AA) School of Architecture
  • Yasamin Eslami – Associate Professor
  • Joeri Exelmans – Universiteit Antwerpen
  • Alberto Falcone – University of Calabria
  • Jesus Felez – UPM
  • Keegan Fernandes – University of Waterloo
  • Samuel Ferrero-Losada – Universidad Complutense de Madrid
  • Nicolas Ferry – Université Céte d’Azur
  • John Fitzgerald – Newcastle University
  • Katherine Flanigan – Carnegie Mellon University
  • Richard Flournoy – MITRE Corporation
  • Pau Fonseca – Universitat Politènica de Catalunya
  • Claudia Frydman – AMU
  • Francisco Garcia-Herrero – Universidad Complutense de Madrid
  • Alfredo Garro – University of Calabria
  • Marjan Ghobad – Independent Researcher
  • Adriana Giret – UPV
  • Ryan Glasby – ORNL
  • Rhys Goldstein – Autodesk Research
  • Leo González – UPM
  • Ross Gore – Old Dominion University
  • Mohammad Goudarzi – Faculty of Information Technology, Monsah University
  • Navid Goudarzi – Cleveland State University
  • Valdemar Vicente Graciano Neto – Federal University of Goiás
  • Eric Guiffo Kaigom – Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences
  • Helen Haase – HAW Hamburg
  • Saimun Habib – The University of Edinburgh
  • Khatereh Hadi – GTRI
  • Nohra Hage – Institut Catholique de Lille
  • Olaf Hagendorf – University of Applied Science Wismar
  • Navid Hatefnia – BuroHappold Engineering/Technical University of Munich
  • Brandon Haworth – University of Victoria
  • Mohammad Heidarinejad – Illinois Institute of Technology
  • Joerg Holtmann – Digital Rail for Germany
  • Xiaolin Hu – Georgia State University
  • Edward Hua – MITRE Corporation
  • Jianxiang Huang – The University of Hong Kong
  • Yilin Huang – TU Delft
  • Amjad Iqbal – Carleton University
  • Joseph Jabbour – ICL, Junia, Université Catholique de Lille, LITL
  • Amel Jaoua – National Engineering School of Tunis
  • Moath Jarrah – Eastern Illinois University
  • Jason Jaskolka – Carleton University
  • Na Jiang – University at Buffalo
  • Erik Johnston – Arizona State University
  • Nathaniel Jones – Arup
  • Charbel Kady – IMT – Mines Alès
  • Masoud Kahalimoghadam – University of Melbourne
  • Eduard Kamburjan – University of Oslo
  • Omar Kammouh – Delft University of Technology
  • Hamdi Kavak – George Mason University
  • Naomi Keena – McGill University
  • William Kennedy – George Mason University
  • Inki Kim – University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  • Stefan Klikovits – Johannes Kepler University Linz
  • Odysseas Kontovourkis – University of Cyprus
  • Antonios Kontsos – Rowan University
  • Martin Krammer – Knorr-Bremse Rail Vehicle Systems
  • Madhuri Kumari – Amity University Uttar Pradesh, Noida
  • Yao-Ming Kuo – UTN, Monolithic Power Systems
  • Vladimir Kuts – TalTech
  • Jesús Omar Lacruz – IMDEA Networks Institute
  • Blanca Larraga – Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
  • Allen Lee – Arizona State University
  • Dr. Anas Lila – University of the West of England
  • Luis Lopera Gonzalez – FAU
  • Adolfo Lopez – University of Málaga
  • Giovanni Lugaresi – KU Leuven
  • Christiane M Herr – Southern University of Science and Technology
  • Pedro Malagon – Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
  • Avleen Malhi – University of Warwick
  • Maxim Malikov – George Mason University
  • Nick Malleson – University of Leeds
  • Carla Martin Villalba – UNED
  • Andrea Matta – Politecnico di Milano
  • Steve McKeever – Uppsala University
  • Joost Mertens – University of Antwerp
  • Sermet Mir – Bournemouth University
  • Saurabh Mittal – The MITRE Corporation
  • Emmanuel Montanez-Navarro – Dewey University
  • Il-Chul Moon – KAIST
  • Jose Manuel Moya – Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
  • Paula Munoz – University of Malaga
  • Alexandre Muzy – CNRS
  • Hyeong Suk Na – University of Missouri
  • Andreas Naderlinger – University of Salzburg
  • Sina Namaki-Araghi – Associate Professor
  • Taro Narahara – New Jersey Institute of Technology
  • Eva Navarro – Rochester Institute of Technology
  • Martin Neumann – University of Southern Denmark
  • Hoa Nguyen – The University of Melbourne
  • James Nutaro – ORNL
  • Bentley Oakes – Polytechnique Montreal
  • Mohammad Obeid – Shenandoah University
  • Halit Oguztuzun – Middle East Technical University
  • Mohammed Olama – Oak Ridge National Laboratory
  • Bertug Ozarisoy – London South Bank University
  • Jose Padilla – VMASC/ODU
  • Josue Pagan – Technical University of Madrid
  • Randy Paredis – University Of Antwerp
  • Marco Parente – FEUP
  • Thorsten Pawletta – Wismar University of Applied Sciences
  • Ezequiel Pecker Marcosig – University of Buenos Aires
  • Paolo Pedrazzoli – SUPSI
  • Carlos E. Pereira
  • Kenneth Pierce – Newcastle University
  • Nathalie Pinede – University of Bordeaux Montaigne
  • Bianica Pires – The MITRE Corporation
  • Gary Polhill – The James Hutton Institute
  • Jalal Possik – Université Catholique de Lille
  • David Poza – University of Valladolid
  • Vishnu Prabhu – University of Central Florida
  • Francesco Quaglia – DIAG – Sapienza Universita’ di Roma
  • Ghaith Rabadi – University of Central Florida
  • Adrian Ramirez-Nafarrate – Tecnologico de Monterrey
  • Marina Rantanen Modeer – Saab AB
  • Dhananjai Rao – Miami University
  • Danda Rawat – Howard University
  • Maria Read – The University of Melbourne
  • Jose L. Risco-Martin – Universidad Complutense de Madrid
  • Óscar David Robles Sánchez – Universidad Rey Juan Carlos
  • Guilherme Rodrigues – IFSUL
  • Alexander Roman – Universität der Bundeswehr München
  • Scott Rosen – MITRE
  • Andreas Rowald – Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
  • Jerzy Rozenblit – University of Arizona
  • Ivan Ruchkin – University of Pennsylvania
  • Cristina Ruiz Martin – Carleton University
  • Soheil Sabri – University of Central Florida
  • Md Nazmus Sakib – University of Texas at Arlington
  • Kathleen Salazar-Serna – Pontificia Universidad Javeriana Cali
  • Johannes Sametinger – JKU
  • Hessam Sarjoughian – Arizona State University
  • Gulesin Sena Das
  • Moon Gi Seok – Dongguk University
  • Mani Sharifi – Visiting Assistant Professor
  • Ashwin Shashidharan – Esri
  • Yuzhong Shen – Old Dominion University
  • Ahmed Sherif – The American University in Cairo
  • Sachin Shetty – Old Dominion University
  • Pratishtha Shukla – Oak Ridge National Laboratory
  • Georgios Ch. Sirakoulis – Democritus University of Thrace
  • Stuart Slattery – Oak Ridge National Laboratory
  • Przemysław Śliwiński – Wrocław University of Science and Technology
  • Samuel Sohn – Rutgers University
  • Vittorio Solina – University of Calabria
  • Bulent Soykan – University of Central Florida
  • Joshua Stadlan – Tufts University
  • Mirko Stoffers – RWTH Aahen University
  • Rudi Stouffs – National University of Singapore
  • Carmen Paz Suarez-Araujo – Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
  • Aarthi Sundaram – TU Delft
  • Eugene Syriani – University of Montreal
  • Paul T – NYU
  • Prasad Talasila – Aarhus University
  • Austin Tapp – SimLife Solutions
  • Khaled Tarabieh – Associate Professor
  • Simon Taylor – Brunel University London
  • Casper Thule – Vestas Wind Systems A/S
  • Daniel Tish – Harvard University
  • Ange Lionel Toba – Idaho National Laboratory
  • Andreas Tolk – The MITRE Corporation
  • Okan Topçu – METU NCC
  • Toan Tran – Emory University
  • Mamadou Traore – University of Bordeaux
  • Enrico Tronci – Sapienza University of Rome
  • Adelinde Uhrmacher – University of Rostock
  • Alfonso Urquia – UNED
  • Bert Van Acker – University of Antwerp
  • Koen H. van Dam – Imperial College London
  • Andrea Vandin – Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies
  • Yon Vanommeslaeghe – University of Antwerp
  • Alexander Verbraeck – TU Delft
  • Harko Verhagen – Stockholm University
  • Peter von Buelow – University of Michigan
  • Christoph Waibel – ETH Zurich
  • Gabriel Wainer – Carleton University
  • Haifeng Wang – Mississippi State University
  • Rufei Wang – Atelier Ten
  • Xin Wang – University of Illinois Chicago
  • Martijn Warnier – Delft University of Technology
  • Ramon Weber – University of California, Berkeley
  • Thomas Wiedemann – University of Applied Sciences Dresden
  • Nanda Wijermans – Stockholm University
  • Mike Wise – Oak Ridge National Laboratory
  • Sarah Wise – University College London
  • Dr Helena Wisniewski – University of Alaska Anchorage
  • Bernd Wolfinger – University of Hamburg
  • Gabriel Wurzer – TU Wien
  • Xu Xie – National University of Defense Technology
  • Charles Yaacoub – Université Catholique de Lille
  • Bing Yao – University of Tennessee Knoxville
  • Levent Yilmaz – Auburn University
  • Srikanth Yoginath – ORNL
  • Greg Zacharewicz – IMT – Mines Alès
  • Cecilia Zanni-Merk – INSA Rouen Normandie
  • Marina Zapater – University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland (HES-SO)
  • Andrzej Zarzycki – New Jersey Institute of Technology
  • Xin Zhao – Seattle University
  • Kashif Zia – University of Glasgow
  • Dmitry Zinoviv – Suffolk University
  • Sisi Zlatanova – UNSW, School of Built Environment, GRID

Program At-a-Glance