Rajkumar Buyya is an Indian born Australian academic. As of 2022, he is distinguished professor and director of the Cloud Computing and Distributed Systems Laboratory at the

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. He was made a

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(IEEE) in 2015 for ''contributions to

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''. He was elected a foreign member of

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in 2022. He published ''Content Delivery Networks'' (with Athena I. Vakali and Mukaddim Pathan,

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, 2008). In 2017, Buyya won the

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Excellence in Innovative Research Award. In 2021, Buyya was included in a list of 40 researchers regarded as lifetime achievers in their fields published by

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