Advisory Board of Eminence



Prof. Dr. R. K. Mittal
Advisor to Hon'ble Chancellor, Joy University
Former Vice Chancellor, K.R. Mangalam University
Former Director, BITS - Pilani
Professor Dr. R K Mittal , Former Director of BITS-Pilani and Former Vice
Chancellor is an academic leader of eminence, who has championed higher
education as a learned academician and able administrator for the past 40 years.
Prof. Dr. R K Mittal received BE (honours) in 1973 and ME degree from BITS-Pilani
in 1975, and a PhD degree in software engineering from Birla Institute of Technology
and Science (BITS), Pilani. He obtained highest rank in order of merit in ME degree
programme and was awarded institute’s gold medal. He joined academics at BITS
and had been teaching undergraduate and postgraduate courses for the last four
decades. He has guided several MTech dissertation and PhD students. He is the
founding member of the Centre for Robotics and Intelligent Systems at BITS Pilani.
Prof. Dr. R K Mittal has attended national and international conferences,
presented/published numerous papers in reputed journals and authored several
books on robotics.,.”
We welcome him to the Joy University as Advisor to Chancellor with a hope to build
on the Joy University’s academic momentum and lead it to greater achievements.

Prof. Dr. Rajkumar Buyya
Redmond Barry Distinguished Professor
Director - Cloud Computing and Distributed Systems Laboratory
School of Computing and Information Systems
University of Melbourne, Australia
Prof. Dr. Rajkumar Buyya, IEEE Fellow for contributions to Cloud
Computing in 2015 is currently a Redmond Barry Distinguished
Professor and the Director of the Cloud Computing and Distributed
Systems (CLOUDS) Laboratory, University of Melbourne, Australia.
He has authored more than 625 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. He is one of the highly cited authors in computer science and
software engineering worldwide with (h-index=153, g=334, and 120,700+
citations).
Dr. Buyya is recognized as a “Web of Science Highly Cited Researcher” by Thomson Reuters, a Fellow of IEEE, and Scopus Researcher of the Year 2017 with Excellence in Innovative Research Award by Elsevier for his outstanding
contributions to Cloud Computing.
Dr. Buyya has led the establishment and development of key community
activities, including serving as foundation Chair of the IEEE Technical
Committee on Scalable Computing and five IEEE/ACM conferences. These
contributions and international research leadership of Dr. Buyya are
recognized through the award of “2009 IEEE Medal for Excellence in
Scalable Computing” from the IEEE Computer Society TCSC. He served as
the founding Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing.
He is currently serving as Co-Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Software: Practice
and Experience.

Prof. Dr. Yaj Medury
Vice Chancellor, Mahindra University
Former Vice Chancellor, Bennett University
Dr. Medury is an acclaimed academician and a seasoned professional with more than
three decades of opulent academic and administrative experience.
Before joining Mahindra Group, Dr. Yajulu Medury was the Vice Chancellor of
Bennett University at Greater Noida, U.P. At Bennett University, Dr. Medury
developed academic partnerships with Georgia Tech for Engineering, Johnson
Business Cornell University for Management, Cornell Law School for Law, Babson
College USA for Entrepreneurship and others. In addition, between 2001 and 2003,
Dr. Medury successfully established 3 Universities (2 State and 1 Deemed). Prior to
that Dr. Medury was the Vice Chancellor of Jaypee University of IT,
Himachal Pradesh and Founding Vice Chancellor of VIT University, Vellore.
Immediately before that he was the Chairman & Managing Director of Educational
Consultants of India Limited, a Public Sector Undertaking of the Government of
India. His contributions to the field of academics have been widely acknowledged.
He has more than 40 publications to his credit which have been extensively
circulated in national and international journals and conferences.
Dr. Medury has a B.Tech Honours degree from IIT, Kharagpur; MS and Ph.D. in
Engineering Mechanics from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA.

Prof. Dr. Ravi Kumar
Dean - Administration, IIT Roorkee
Professor Dr. Ravi Kumar, Dean- Administration at IIT Roorkee is an academic
leader of eminence, who has championed higher education as a learned academician
and able administrator for the past 30 years.
Prof. Dr. Ravi Kumar received BE (honours) in 1987 and M.Tech degree from NIT-
Bhopal and a PhD degree in IIT – Roorkee in 2000. He joined academics at IIT
Roorkee and had been teaching undergraduate and postgraduate courses for the last
three decades. Prof. Dr. Ravi Kumar has supervised 23 PhD students from IIT
Roorkee.
Prof. Dr. Ravi Kumar has attended several National and International Conferences,
presented/published numerous papers in reputed journals and authored several
books.
We welcome Prof. Ravi Kumar to Joy University as Member of Board of Governors
and Member of Advisory Board of Eminence with a hope to build on the Joy
University’s academic momentum and lead it to greater achievements.