Rajiv Ranjan

Research Scientist and Project Leader

Contact

Computer and Information Technology Building (Building 108),
Australian National University,
North Road Acton ACT 2601, Australia

GPO Box 664, Canberra ACT 2601, Australia

Tel: 61 2 6216 7047
Fax: 61 2 6216 7111
raj.ranjan@csiro.au

Themes

• Government and Commercial Services
• Broadband to Bush
• Service Oriented Systems

Projects

• HyCloud
• MediaWise

Science Area

• Service Computing

Biography

Dr. Rajiv Ranjan is a Research Scientist and Project Leader in the CSIRO ICT Center, Information Engineering Laboratory, Canberra, where he is working on projects related to cloud and service computing. Previously, he was a Senior Research Associate (Lecturer level B) in the School of Computer Science and Engineering, University of New South Wales (UNSW). Dr. Ranjan has a PhD (2009) in Computer Science and Software Engineering from the University of Melbourne. He completed Bachelor of Computer Engineering from North Gujarat University, India, in 2002. Dr. Ranjan is broadly interested in the emerging areas of cloud, grid, and service computing. The main goal of his current research is to advance the fundamental understanding and state of the art of provisioning and delivery of application services in large, heterogeneous, uncertain, and evolving distributed systems(cloud, grids, data center, and web services).

Though a recent graduate, his h-index is 15, with a total citation count of 800+ (source: http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=Y_Y3fVEAAAAJ&hl=en). Dr. Ranjan has often served as Guest Editor for leading distributed systems and software engineering journals including Future Generation Computer Systems (Elsevier Press), Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience (John Wiley & Sons), and Software: Practice and Experience (Wiley InterScience). He was the Program Chair for 2010, 2011, and 2012 Australasian Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Computing and 2010 IEEE TCSC Doctoral Symposium. He serves as the editor of IEEE TCSC Newsletter. He has also recently initiated (as chair) IEEE TCSC Technical area on Cloud Computing.

A journal paper that appeared in the IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorial Journal (impact factor 3.692 and the 5-year impact factor is 8.462) was named “Outstanding Paper on New Communications Topics for 2009” by IEEE Communications Society, USA. IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorial is ranked as no # 1 journal (among other journals including IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, IEEE Communications Letters, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, IEEE Transactions on Communications, etc.) in the field of communications based on the last five years impact factor.

Though his PhD was awarded only two years ago, already the quality of work undertaken as part of that degree and his subsequent post-doctoral research undertaken at the University of Melbourne and UNSW has been recognised, often cited, and adopted by both industry and academia. For example, the Alchemi toolkit http://www.cloudbus.org/~alchemi/projects.html) is used by CSIRO Physics, Biology, and Natural Sciences researchers as a platform for solving critical problems; by e-Water CRC to create environment simulation models for natural resource modelling; and by the Friedrich Miescher Institute (FMI), Switzerland; Tier Technologies, USA; Satyam Computers, India; and Correlation Systems Ltd., Israel. CloudSim (http://www.cloudbus.org/cloudsim/) is used extensively by Hewlett-Packard Labs Texas A&M University, and Duke University in USA; and Tsingua University in China and to study and evaluate performance measurements of Cloud resources and application management techniques.

He is happy to answer any questions, related to cloud computing research, development, consultancy, market study, and patent portfolio.

He is looking to hire PhD students in the research discipline of Cloud and Service computing at CSIRO ICT Centre in conjunction with University of New South Wales or Australian National University. Interested students may contact him through email.

Academic Qualifications

2009	PhD University of Melbourne, Grid Computing and Peer-to-Peer Networks
2002	B.E. Computer Engineering, North Gujarat University, India

Recent Professional Experience

2011-	Research Scientist, ICT Centre
2011-	Project Leader, ICT Centre
2011-	Adjunct Lecturer, University of New South Wales
2011-	Adjunct Research Fellow (Level B), Australian National University
2009-2011	Senior Research Associate, University of New South Wales
2008-2009	Research Fellow, University of Melbourne
2002-2003	Lecturer, Gujarat University, India

Achievements & Awards

2009	Outstanding Paper on New Communications Topics awarded by IEEE Communications Society, USA
2	Keynote papers
25+	ERA publications

Summary of Science & Technical Output

Grants

1.	R. Ranjan (Chief Investigator) and Prof. M. Parashar (Partner Investigator), “Comprehensive Model-driven Provisioning of Services in Composite Systems”, UNSW Goldstar Grant, January 2011- December 2011, $30000 AUD.
2.	R. Ranjan and Service Aggregation Project Team, CRC Smart Services, University of New South Wales, September 2010 - September 2011, $128000 AUD.
3.	IEEE TCSC Student Travel Grant (2005, 2006, and 2007), $3000 AUD.
4.	International Postgraduate Research Scholarship, Department of Industry, Innovation Science, Research and Tertiary Education, July 2003 – July 2007, PhD Study at University of Melbourne, $72000 AUD.
5.	Melbourne International Research Scholarship, Department of Computer Science and Software Engineer, University of Melbourne, July 2003 – July 2007, $72000 AUD.

Student Supervision

Michael	Menzel (2010- ), PhD Student, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany,[External Advisor]
Khalid	Alhamazani (2011- ), PhD Student, University of New South Wales, Australia, [Lead Supervisor]
Miranda	Zhang (2012- ), PhD Student, Australian National University, Australia, [Lead Supervisor]

Top 10 Publications

Publication details
R. Ranjan, A. Harwood, and R. Buyya, “Peer-to-Peer Based Discovery of Grid Resource Information: A Tutorial”, IEEE Communication Surveys and Tutorials (COMST), Volume 10, Issue 2, Second Quarter 2008, Pages 6-33, IEEE Communications Society Press. [50 Google Scholar Citations] *ERA, ISI and DBLP Indexed Journal, 2009 Outstanding Paper on New Communications Topic, Awarded by IEEE Communications Society
R. Buyya, R. Ranjan, and R. N. Calheiros, “Modeling and Simulation of Scalable Cloud Computing Environments and the CloudSim Toolkit: Challenges and Opportunities”, Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE High Performance Computing & Simulation (HPCS'09) Conference, June 21-24, 2009, Pages 1-11, Germany, IEEE Computer Society Press. [126 Google Scholar Citations], ERA Ranked Conference, Keynote Paper
A. Luther, R. Buyya, R. Ranjan, and S. Venugopal, “Alchemi: A .NET-Based Enterprise Grid Computing System”, Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Internet Computing (ICOMP'05), June 27-30, 2005, Las Vegas, USA. [90 Google Scholar Citations]
R. Buyya, R. Ranjan, and R. N. Calheiros, “InterCloud: Utility-Oriented Federation of Cloud Computing Environments for Scaling of Application Services”. Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Algorihtms and Architectures for Parallel Processing (ICA3PP 2010), Busan, Korea, March, 2010. [76 Google Scholar Citations], ERA Ranked Conference, Keynote paper
L. Wang, R. Ranjan, J. Chen, and B. Benatallah, “Cloud Computing: Methodology, Systems, and Applications”, Edited Book, ISBN: 9781439856413, 575 Pages, CRC Press, Taylor and Francis Group.
R. Ranjan, M. Rahman, and R. Buyya, “A Decentralized and Cooperative Workflow Scheduling Algorithm”, Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Cluster Computing and Grid (CCGrid 2008), IEEE Computer Society Press, 2008, May 19-22, 2008, Pages 1-8, Lyon, France. [20 Google Scholar Citations], ERA Ranked Conference
R. Ranjan, R. Buyya, and A. Harwood, “A Case for Cooperative and Incentive Based Coupling of Distributed Clusters”, Proceedings of the 7th IEEE International Conference on Cluster Computing (Cluster 2005), IEEE Computer Society Press, September 27 - 30, 2005, Pages 1-11, Boston, Massachusetts, USA. [23 Google Scholar Citations], ERA Ranked Conference
R. Ranjan, A. Harwood, and R. Buyya, “A SLA-Based Coordinated Super scheduling Scheme and Performance for Computational Grids”, Proceedings of the 8th IEEE International Conference on Cluster Computing (Cluster 2006), IEEE Computer Society Press, September 27 - 30, 2006, Pages 1-8, Barcelona, Spain. [18 Google Scholar Citations], ERA Ranked Conference
R. Ranjan and R. Buyya, “Decentralized Overlay for Federation of Enterprise Clouds”, Handbook of Research on Scalable Computing Technologies, Kuan-Ching Li, Ching-Hsien Hsu, Laurence Tianruo Yang, Jack Dongarra, and Hans Zima (editors), 28 Pages ISBN: 978-1-60566-661-7, IGI Global, 2009. [20 Google Scholar Citations]
R. Ranjan, L. Chan, A. Harwood, S. Karunasekera, and R. Buyya, “Decentralized Resource Discovery Service for Large Scale Federated Grids”, Proceedings of the 3rd IEEE International Conference on e-Science and Grid Computing (e-Science 2007), IEEE Computer Society Press, December 10-14, 2007, Pages 379-387, Bangalore, India. [11 Google Scholar Citations], ERA Ranked Conference

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