Melbourne CLOUDS Lab’s 2023 Annual Report

Dear Colleagues:

On behalf of Melbourne CLOUDS Lab, I am pleased to share 2023 Annual Report detailing its R&D activities, outcomes, and community services. For full report, please visit:
http://cloudbus.org/reports/CLOUDS-Lab-AnnualReport2023.pdf
http://clouds.cis.unimelb.edu.au/reports/CLOUDS-Lab-AnnualReport2023.pdf

The highlights of our research activities and outcomes in 2023 are:

• The Lab successfully attracted ARC Discovery Project along with involvement in two large projects (especially Zero Net Emissions CRC for Agriculture).
• Members of the CLOUDS Lab have authored 40 publications, which include 26 journal papers and 10 conference papers.
• The Lab’s flagship Cloudbus Project has released various new modules for 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. We released two new Quantum computing software systems (qFaaS and iQuantum). They have been used by several researchers in academia and industries around the world.
• Members have presented over 40 invited talks that include 14 keynotes delivered at international conferences/events held in Australia, India, China, USA, and France.
• The Lab successfully hosted research activities of over 25 scholars, which include 19 PhD students and 3 Visiting Research Fellows.
• In 2023 alone, our papers have attracted over 10100 citations (ref: Google Scholar). Two of our papers received Best Paper Awards.
• IEEE Technical Committee on Scalable Computing (IEEE TCSC) presented its 2023 “Outstanding PhD Thesis Award” to Dr. Samodha Pallewatta for her PhD thesis.
• We are recognised as the Top Researcher in “Software Systems” field (highest cited in top 20 journals over the past five years), The Australian Research Magazine 2024, The Australian, November 10, 2023.
• 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 2022 and #2 for career-long citation impact up until the end of 2022 in Distributed Computing area.

I wish you all a peaceful, healthy, safe, and spiritually enlightened rest of the year 2023.

Take care.

Best regards
Raj