Panel Discussion

Panellists

Prof. Richard Sinnott

Professor of Applied Computing Systems at the University of Melbourne.

Biography: Professor Richard O. Sinnott (BSc, MSc, PhD) is Professor of Applied Computing Systems at the University of Melbourne. He has been a technical lead on a multitude of large-scale international projects, with an emphasis on big data and security, worth over $500m. This includes numerous projects in the defence, intelligence, and biomedical domains. He has over 500 peer-reviewed publications across a range of computing and application-specific domains.

Rakesh Singh

Enterprise Architect at Oracle Corporation

Biography: Rakesh Singh is an Enterprise Architect at Oracle Corporation, where he helps organisations bridge business strategy and technology execution. With extensive experience across government, finance, and non-profit sectors, he designs and delivers enterprise architectures that drive digital transformation and measurable business outcomes. As Lead of the Sustainability Community of Practice for Oracle JAPAC, Rakesh champions collaboration and innovation to advance sustainability through technology. His work brings together people, data, and purpose—empowering organisations to build smarter, more resilient, and more sustainable futures. Blending technical depth, strategic vision, and environmental commitment, Rakesh is passionate about using technology as a force for positive change.

Xiao Liu

Professor at the School of Information Technology, Deakin University

Biography: Xiao Liu received his Ph.D. degree in software engineering at Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia, in 2011. He was an Associate Professor at the Software Engineering Institute, East China Normal University, Shanghai, China, during 2013 to 2015. He is currently a Professor and Leader of the Software Engineering Innovation Lab at the School of Information Technology, Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia. His research interests include workflow systems, cloud and edge computing, UAVs and human-centric software engineering. He has published many papers in top software engineering and service computing venues such as ACM ToSEM, IEEE TSE, IEEE TSC, ICSE, ASE, ICWS and ICSOC. He is currently an Associate Editor for the Journal of Systems and Software, and on the editorial board for multiple IEEE, Elsevier, and Springer Journals. He is a Senior Member of IEEE and ACM.

Rajkumar Buyya

Redmond Barry Distinguished Professor and Director of qCLOUDS Laboratory at the University of Melbourne University

Biography: Dr. Rajkumar Buyya is a Redmond Barry Distinguished Professor and Director of the Quantum Cloud Computing and Distributed Systems (qCLOUDS) Laboratory at the University of Melbourne, Australia. He is also serving as the founding CEO of Manjrasoft, a spin-off company of the University, commercializing its innovations in Cloud Computing. He has authored over 850 publications and seven text books including "Mastering Cloud Computing" published by McGraw Hill, China Machine Press, and Morgan Kaufmann for Indian, Chinese and international markets respectively. Software technologies developed under Dr. Buyya's leadership have gained rapid acceptance and are in use at several academic institutions and commercial enterprises in 60+ countries around the world. He is a Fellow of ACM, IEEE & Academia Europea.

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