[Curriculum Vitae]
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[Academic/Other]
PhD (High Performance Computing, Algorithms & Machine Learning Research – Computer and Electronic Engineering programme, School of Engineering and Design, Brunel University West London, UK).
MSc (Information Technology (Distinction), Liverpool University, UK)
CITP, Senior ACM Member, IEEE, MBCS
Full Time Resident Academic and Course Coordinator, University of Malta
EU COST Member – COST (European Cooperation in Science and Technology) – one of the longest-running European frameworks supporting cooperation among scientists and researchers across Europe
Advisor to the Board at Apla Blockchain
Appointed IT Court Expert
Independent Expert & Evaluator on European IT research programmes (Expert number: Horizon 2020 EX2013D139425)
Appointed Courts Expert - Information Technology - Courts of Law, Malta
Founding Partner at iGrant.io
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[Selected, Peer Reviewed Publications]
Caruana, G; Li, M; Qi, M; Khan, M and Rana, O. “gSched: A Resource Aware Hadoop Scheduler for Heterogeneous Cloud Computing Environments“. Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, 2016. DOI: 10.1002/cpe.3841
G. Caruana, M. Li, and Y. Liu, “An Ontology Enhanced Parallel SVM for Scalable Spam Filter Training,” Neurocomputing, iss. 108, pp. 45-57, 2013.
G. Caruana, M. Li, and M. Qi, “A MapReduce based parallel SVM for large scale spam filtering,” in Fuzzy Systems and Knowledge Discovery (FSKD), 2011 Eighth International Conference on, 2011, pp. 2659-2662.
G. Caruana and P. Darbyshire, “A Distributed Anti-Spam Architecture using Plug-ins,” in Engaging academia and enterprise agendas, K. Dhanda, Ed., Washington: Information Institute, 2008, pp. 1-14.
G. Caruana, M. Li, and H. Qi, “SpamCloud: A MapReduce based anti-spam architecture,” in 2010 Seventh International Conference on Fuzzy Systems and Knowledge Discovery, 2010, pp. 3003-3006.
G. Caruana and M. Li, “A survey of emerging approaches to spam filtering,” ACM Comput. Surv., vol. 44, iss. 2, p. 9:1—-9:27, 2008.
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[Others (Selected, Recent)]
Poster Presentation: Caruana G and Li, M.Uk. eScience All Hands 2009 Meeting. SpamCloud – A MapReduce based Anti-Spam Infrastructure. School of Engineering and Design, Brunel University, UK. [Online] Available http://www.allhands.org.uk/programme/poster-session. (2009) (Presented)
Presentation: Caruana G. Future Internet–What users need and expect. The EU RTD Framework Programmes. From Economic Recovery to Sustainability–EU Presidency Invitation. [Online] http://www.r2sconference.eu/downloads/wednesday_14th_FI_presentations/ Godwin_Caruana_FI_Technology_expectations_by_users_in_the_future.pdf (2010) (Presented & Published)
Keynote Speaker IDC IT Security, Cloud Computing and Datacenters Transformation Roadshow 2012
FSKD 2010 Program Committee Member – International Conference on Fuzzy Systems and Knowledge discovery
FSKD 2014 Program Committee Member – International Conference on Fuzzy Systems and Knowledge discovery
FSKD 2015 Technical Program Committee Member – International Conference on Fuzzy Systems and Knowledge discovery
FSKD 2016 Technical Program Committee Member – International Conference on Fuzzy Systems and Knowledge discovery
IoTBD 2016 International Conference on Internet of Things and Big Data – Program Committee Member
FSKD 2017 Technical Program Committee Member – International Conference on Fuzzy Systems and Knowledge discovery
IoTBD 2018 – International Conference on Internet of Things and Big Data - Program Committee Member
FSKD 2018 Technical Program Committee Member – International Conference on Fuzzy Systems and Knowledge discovery
IoTBDS 2019 Program Committee Member - 4th International Conference on Internet of Things, Big Data and Security.
IoTBDS 2020 Program Committee Member - 5th International Conference on Internet of Things, Big Data and Security.
FSKD 2020 Technical Program Committee Member – International Conference on Natural Computation Fuzzy Systems and Knowledge discovery
IoTBDS 2021 Program Committee Member - 6th International Conference on Internet of Things, Big Data and Security.
IoTBDS 2022 Program Committee Member - 7th International Conference on Internet of Things, Big Data and Security.
The 2022 International Conference on Machine Learning, Control, and Robotics (MLCR 2022)
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[Selected, Professional Affiliations and Memberships]
Chartered IT Professional (CITP) (BCS)
Senior ACM Member – Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
IEEE Computer Society Member (IEEE)
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[Journal Reviewer]
IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems
Future Generation Computer Systems
Journal of Internet Services and Applications (JISA)
Artificial Intelligence Review – Journal/Paper Reviewer
Concurrency and Computation : Practice and Experience – Journal/Paper Reviewer
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[Skills Summary]
Expertise in Software Engineering, Hardware, Networking and Operating Systems
Expertise in HPC (incl. GRID, Cloud, Distributed, BigData, MapReduce, Hadoop, Cassandra, Mahout, Hive etc. etc.)
Expertise in Machine Learning, AI, Computational Statistics with Data Analysis
Amazon AWS, S3, EMR, EC2
Strong academic background and formal approaches
Excellent Leader, Experienced Technology Strategist and Visionary
Independent Expert & Evaluator on the European FP7 programme
Appointed Courts Expert - Information Technology - Courts of Law, Malta
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[Previous Roles]
Chief Executive Officer and Chief Technology Officer - Harvest Technology plc
Chief Technology Officer MITA
Chief Enterprise Architect at MITTS
Software Specialist at MITTS
Research Executive at MITTS
Software Developer at MITTS
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