Rajkumar Buyya is a Redmond Barry Distinguished Professor and Director of the Cloud Computing and Distributed Systems Laboratory at the University of Melbourne, Australia. Dr. Buyya is an IEEE Fellow, earned recognition as a Web of Science Highly Cited Researcher (2016, 2017), and received the Scopus Researcher of the Year with Excellence in Innovative Research Award (2017) for his outstanding contributions to cloud computing. He can be reached at rbuyya at unimelb.edu.au.