Big Data and Cloud Computing

1. Architecture.- 2. MapReduce.- 3. Security and Privacy.- 4. Services and Applications.- 5. Virtualization. 

Neelanarayanan Venkataraman received his Master of Science in Computer Science from Madurai Kamaraj University, India, in 1995 and his Ph.D. from IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark, in 2012. Currently, he is Professor at VIT University, Chennai, India. Before joining VIT University, he worked as Scientist at the Centre for Advanced Computing (CDAC), India, and as Lecturer at Madurai Kamaraj University, India, and its affiliated institutions. His areas of research include distributed computing such as grid and cloud computing, context-aware computing, network management and security, XML-based security technologies, and e-communities. He has initiated several international research collaborations with universities in Europe, Australia, and South Korea as Research Group Coordinator and Chief Investigator at VIT University. He was instrumental in initiating joint research collaboration between VIT University and industries such as CDAC, SET, and DLink. He served as Head of the department in Cyber-Physical Systems between 2019 and 2023. As head of the department, he was responsible for the design and development of curriculum and syllabi for undergraduate and postgraduate specialization programs. He was instrumental in setting cyber-physical systems lab and an industry 4.0 lab at VIT University, Chennai.

 

Lipo Wang received a bachelor's degree from the National University of Defense Technology (China) and a Ph.D. from Louisiana State University (USA). He is presently on the faculty of the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. His research interest is artificial intelligence with applications to image/video processing, biomedical engineering, communications, control, and power systems. He has 350+ publications, a US patent in neural networks, and a patent in systems to his credit. He has co-authored 2 monographs and (co-)edited 15 books. He was Keynote Speaker for 36 international