Melbourne CLOUDS Lab’s 2022 Annual Report

Dear Colleagues:

On behalf of Melbourne CLOUDS Lab, I am pleased to share 2022 Annual Report detailing its R&D activities, outcomes, and community services. For full report, please visit:
http://cloudbus.org/reports/CLOUDS-Lab-AnnualReport2022.pdf
http://clouds.cis.unimelb.edu.au/reports/CLOUDS-Lab-AnnualReport2022.pdf

The highlights of our research activities and outcomes in 2022 are:

• The Lab successfully hosted ARC research projects (Discovery and Linkage Infrastructure Projects) along with hosting two new research projects.
• Members of the CLOUDS Lab have authored 69 publications, which include 52 journal papers. You can access full version of most of our papers from: http://clouds.cis.unimelb.edu.au/publications-years.html
• The Lab’s flagship Cloudbus Project has released various new modules for Aneka, CloudSim, iFogSim, and Fogbus. iFogSim, building on CloudSim, has emerged as a de-facto toolkit for modelling and simulation of Fog and Edge computing environments. It has been used by several researchers in academia and industries around the world.
• Members have presented over 45 invited talks that include 23 keynotes delivered at international conferences/events held in Australia, India, Portugal, Italy, Thailand, China, and USA.
• The Lab successfully hosted research activities of over 25 scholars, which include 19 PhD students and 2 Research Fellows.
• IEEE Technical Committee on Cloud Computing (IEEE TCCLD) presented its 2022 “Outstanding PhD Thesis Award” to Dr. Mohammad Goudarzi for his PhD thesis.
• We are recognised as the Top Researcher in “Computing Systems” and “Software Systems” field (highest cited in top 20 journals over the past five years), The Australian Research Magazine 2023, The Australian, November 10, 2022.
• A list of the world’s top 2% researchers complied by Stanford University after assessing scientists worldwide for research carried out over their careers across all disciplines ranks us as #1 for citation impact during the single calendar year 2021 and #2 for career-long citation impact up until the end of 2021 in Distributed Computing area.

I wish you all a peaceful, healthy, safe, and spiritually enlightened rest of the year 2022.

Take care.

Best regards
Raj