Dr Suraj Pandey
Research Fellow ICT
Contact
ICT Center, Marsfield, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
suraj.pandey "AT" gmail.com
Tel: 61 2 9372 4343
Themes
- Service Oriented Systems (SOSy)
Projects
- Workflow Management System
Science Area
- Service Computing
Biography
Dr Suraj Pandey is a research fellow at CSIRO. Before joining CSIRO, he worked as a post-doctoral research fellow at the Cloud Computing and Distributed Systems (CLOUDS) Laboratory at the University of Melbourne, Australia. His PhD thesis focused on scheduling data intensive application workflows on Grids and Cloud computing environments.
His research spans many areas of high performance computing, including data intensive applications, workflow scheduling, resource provisioning, and accelerating scientific applications using distributed computing paradigms. He has been participating in international software competitions and has been awarded in several occasions by industry leaders such as Amazon and Microsoft.
More details can also be found at: http://www.cloudbus.org/spandey
Academic Qualifications
| 2011 | PhD, University of Melbourne, Australia. Thesis: Scheduling and Management of Data Intensive Application Workflows in Grid and Cloud Computing Environments |
| 2007 | Masters, Inha University, South Korea. Thesis: Power-Aware Query Processing Using Optimized Distributed R-tree in Sensor Networks |
| 2003 | Bachelors, Institute of Engineering, Tribhuvan University, Nepal. Thesis: WRCP: Web-based Remote Computer Access Program. |
Recent Professional Experience
| 2010-2011 | Research Fellow, University of Melbourne, Australia |
| 2008-2011 | IT Consultant, Manjrasoft Pty Ltd, Australia |
| 2005-2007 | Research Assistant, DBLab, Inha University, South Korea |
| 2003-2005 | Lead Software Engineer, MIS Division, Apex College, Nepal |
| 2003-2005 | Project Supervisor, Lecturer, Apex College, Nepal |
Achievements & Awards
| 2011 | 2nd Prize at SCALE 2011, The Fourth IEEE International Scalable Computing Challenge (SCALE 2011), sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Scalable Computing (TCSC), May 23th-26th, 2011,Newport Beach, California, USA. Plaque + $US500 |
| 2010 | Best Paper Award Winner at The IEEE 24th International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Application (AINA 2010), Perth, Australia, 20-23 April 2010. |
| 2009 | 2nd Prize at SCALE 2009, The Second IEEE International Scalable Computing Challenge (SCALE 2009) , sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Scalable Computing (TCSC), Shanghai, China, Plaque + $US500 |
| 2009 | SCALE 2009 Participation, 2009, $US 1000 |
| 2009 | SCALE 2008 Participation, 2008, $US 1000 |
| 2009 | Research Training Conference Assistance Scheme (RT-CAS), 2009, $AU 2000 |
| 2009 | Melbourne Abroad Travelling Scholarship (MATS), University of Melbourne, Australia, 2009, $AU 1500 |
| 2008 | IEEE Technical Committee on Scalable Computing (TCSC) Student Travel Award, 2008, $US 800 |
| 2007-2010 | IPRS, MIRS, University of Melbourne, Australia, 2007-2010, $AU 22,500 p/a |
| 2007 | Excellent Graduate Award, Inha University, South Korea, 2007. Search (컴퓨터정보공학과 석사 22051570 수라지 ) |
| 2005-2007 | Postgraduate Fellowship, Inha University, South Korea, 2005-2007, KRW700,000/month |
| 2005-2007 | International student scholarship (Jungseok scholarship), Inha University, South Korea, 2005-2007, Tuition Waver |
| 2002 | Certificate of Appreciation for developing & successfully competing in the international robotics competition ASIA-PACIFIC Robot Contest 2002 Tokyo organized by Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union (ABU), Japan, 2002 |
| 2001 | Certificate of Appreciation for developing & successfully competing in the international robotics competition ROBOCON 2001 in Japan organized by Japanese Broadcasting Corporation (NHK), Japan, 2001 |
Other Highlights
| 2011 | The Fourth IEEE International Scalable Computing Challenge (SCALE 2011) in conjunction with the 11th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Grid Computing (CCGrid 2011), Newport Beach, CA, USA, May 23-26, 2011. |
| 2010 | Third IEEE International Scalable Computing Challenge (SCALE 2010) in conjunction with the 10th IEEE International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Grid Computing (CCGrid 2010), Melbourne, Australia / May 17-20, 2010. |
| 2009 | Summit 09 Cloud Challenge in conjunction with Summit 09: Partnerships in CI Development, Banff, Alberta, Canada, Oct 12 - 16, 2009. |
| 2009 | Second IEEE International Scalable Computing Challenge (SCALE 2009) in conjunction with the 9th IEEE International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid (CCGrid 2009), Shanghai - China / May 18-21, 2009. Second Prize Winners |
| 2008 | 4th IEEE International Conference on e-Science (e-Science 2008), Indianapolis, IN, USA, 2008. |
| 2008 | First IEEE International Scalable Computing Challenge (SCALE 2008) in conjunction with the 8th IEEE International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid (CCGrid 2008), Lyon - France / May 19-22, 2008. |
| 2007 | Grids & e-Research Expo organized by the Gridbus lab on Nov 30, 2007 at CSSE Department of the University of Melbourne, Australia. |
Summary of Science & Technical Output
| Books/Book chapters | 3 |
|---|---|
| Journal | 4 |
| Refereed Conference/Workshop | 19 |
| Technical/Client Reports | 3 |
| Invited Presentations | 6 |
| Patents | 0 |
Grants
| 2012-2013 | NeCTAR eResearch Tools, "Cloud-Based Image Analysis and Processing Toolbox", with Dr Tomasz Bednarz, CSIRO ICT Centre. |
| 2011 | Amazon AWS credits for Cloud Computing Project in Australia - LIGO Australia Project (June 2011): $US6000 |
| 2010 | "Access to Amazon EC2 and S3 Public Cloud", Academic Research Grant-Equipment Access, Amazon Inc., Seattle, USA, 2010. Amount Equivalent: US$6,000. |
| 2010-2013 | 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. |
| 2010 | $AU3500 - The Victorian Life Sciences Computation Initiative (VLSCI) for attending SC10, New Orleans, November 15-18, 2010. |
Student Supervision
| 2011-2013 | Xuyun Zhang, Privacy in Cloud, PhD student at the University of Technology, Sydney. |
| 2011 | Dong Leng, Autonomic Scaling of PaaS Services in a Cloud Computing Environment Case Study: Ligo Gravitational Wave Search, Masters of Engineering in Distributed Computing Project, University of Melbourne, Jan-July 2011. |
| 2010 | Sheng Niu, An Auto-scaling Cloud Computing Infrastructure based on Aneka Enterprise Middleware and Gridbus Workflow Engine, Masters of Engineering in Distributed Computing Project, University of Melbourne, June 2010. |
| 2009 | Dileban Karunamoorthy, Gridbus Workflow Management System and Aneka Enterprise Middleware A project on the integration of the two technologies, Masters of Engineering in Distributed Computing Project, University of Melbourne, June 2009. |
| 2004 | Rabindra Shrestha, Online Electronic transaction [Embedded SSL security], Project in Bachelor's Degree in Computer Engineering, Kantipur Engineering College, Nepal, 2004. |
Science Citizenship
| 2011 | Poster and Research Demo Co-Chair, CCGrid 2012 — The 12th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Grid Computing, May 13-16, 2012, Ottawa, Canada. |
| 2011 | Technical Program Committee Member, The 11th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Grid Computing (CCGrid 2011), May 23rd - 26th, 2011, Newport Beach, CA, USA. |
| 2011 | Technical Program Committee Member, CMS 2011 : 2nd International Workshop on Conceptual Modelling of Services, Sep 6th - Sep 8th, 2011, Milan, Italy. |
| 2010 | Technical Program Committee Member, CISIS 2010 - International Conference on Complex, Intelligent and Software Intensive Systems. Track: "Scientific Computing: Infrastructures and Applications". February 15th - 18th 2010, Krakow, Poland |
| 2011 | Technical Program Committee Member, MoCS 2011 - Workshop on Management of Cloud Systems. 28 June 2011 - Kerkyra (Corfu) Greece |
| 2005-2011 | Reviewer, Future Generation Computer Systems, Journal of Systems and Software (Journal), CCGrid 2010, Grid 2009, eScience 2009, Europar 2008 (International Conferences) , SWF 2010 |
| 2011 | Organiser (Conference Organization, logistics, and management) 4th IEEE International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing (UCC 2011) |
| 2011 | Cyber Chair (Website Management), The 11th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Grid Computing (CCGrid 2011) |
| 2010 | Organiser (Conference Organization, logistics, and management) The 10th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Grid Computing (CCGrid 2010) |
| 2010 | Chair of Research/Product Demonstrations (Demo Organization, logistics, and management) The 10th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Grid Computing (CCGrid 2010) |
| 2010 | Cyber Chair (Website Management), The 10th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Grid Computing (CCGrid 2010) |
| 2007-2011 | IEEE member, Member of IEEE Computer Society, Member of Korea Information Processing Society (KIPS), Member of Korea Information Science Society (KISS) |
| 2004 | Exhibited at The CAN INFOTECH exhibition and conferences held every year by CAN, 2004, Project Title: "Climbing Robot", Affiliation: Apex College, Pokhara University, Kathmandu, Nepal. |
Top 10 Publications
| Publication details |
|---|
| Suraj Pandey and Rajkumar Buyya, Scheduling Workflow Applications based on Multi-Source Parallel Data Retrieval in Distributed Computing Networks, The Computer Journal, ISSN 0010-4620, Oxford University Press, UK, 2012. (in press, accepted on Nov. 27, 2011) |
| Suraj Pandey, William Voorsluys, Mustafizur Rahman, Rajkumar Buyya, James Dobson, Kenneth Chiu, A Grid Workflow Environment for Brain Imaging Analysis on Distributed Systems. Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, Volume 21, Number 16, Pages: 2118-2139, ISSN: 1532-0626, Wiley Press, New York, USA, November 2009. |
| Suraj Pandey, William Voorsluys, Sheng Niu, Ahsan Khandoker, Rajkumar Buyya, An Autonomic Cloud Environment for Hosting ECG Data Analysis Services, Future Generation Computer Systems, 2011 |
| Suraj Pandey, Dileban Karunamoorthy and Rajkumar Buyya, Workflow Engine for Clouds, Cloud Computing: Principles and Paradigms, R. Buyya, J. Broberg, A.Goscinski (eds), ISBN-13: 978-0470887998, Wiley Press, New York, USA, February 2011. |
| Suraj Pandey, Rajkumar Buyya. Scheduling and Management Techniques for Data-Intensive Application Workflows, Data Intensive Distributed Computing: Challenges and Solutions for Large-scale Information Management, T. Kosar (ed), IGI Global, USA, 2009. (in press, accepted on July 24, 2009) |
| Suraj Pandey, Linlin Wu, Siddeswara Guru, and Rajkumar Buyya, A Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO)-based Heuristic for Scheduling Workflow Applications in Cloud Computing Environments, Proceedings of the 24th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications (AINA 2010), Perth, Australia, April 20-23, 2010. - Best Paper Award. |
| Suraj Pandey, Kapil Kumar Gupta, Adam Barker and Rajkumar Buyya, Minimizing Execution Cost when using Globally Distributed Cloud Services, Proceedings of the 24th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications (AINA 2010), Perth, Australia, April 20-23, 2010. |
| Rajkumar Buyya, Suraj Pandey, Christian Vecchiola, Cloudbus Toolkit for Market-Oriented Cloud Computing, Proceeding of the 1st International Conference on Cloud Computing (CloudCom 2009, Springer, Germany), Beijing, China, December 1-4, 2009 |
| Christian Vecchiola, Suraj Pandey, and Rajkumar Buyya, High-Performance Cloud Computing: A View of Scientific Applications, Proceedings of the 10th International Symposium on Pervasive Systems, Algorithms and Networks (I-SPAN 2009, IEEE CS Press, USA), Kaohsiung, Taiwan, December 14-16, 2009. |
| Suraj Pandey, William Voorsluys, Mustafizur Rahman, Rajkumar Buyya, James Dobson, Kenneth Chiu, Brain Image Registration Analysis Workflow for fMRI Studies on Global Grids. In Proceedings of the 23rd IEEE International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications (AINA-09), Bradford, UK, May 2009. |
Number of citations
| ISI | 16 |
|---|---|
| Google Scholar | 204 |