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Dr. Rajkumar Buyya is Professor of Computer Science and Software Engineering; 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 Pty Ltd., a spin-off company of the University, commercialising its innovations in Grid and Cloud Computing. He has authored/co-authored over 400 papers and technical documents that include four books—Microprocessor x86 Programming, Mastering C++, and Design of PARAS Microkernel. He received B.E, M.E, and Ph.D. degrees from Mysore, Bangalore, and Monash Universities respectively. He was awarded Dharma Ratnakara Memorial Trust Gold Medal for academic excellence in Mysore University. He received Vice Chancellor's inaugural "Knowledge Transfer Excellence (Commendation) Award" from the University of Melbourne in Nov 2007. He co-founded the IEEE Technical Committee on Scalable Computing (TCSC) and served as its first elected Chair during 2005-2007. He served as Associate Editor of the Journal of Future Generation Computing Systems, Elsevier Press, Holland. For further information on Dr. Buyya, please browse his website.