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JAMMU: A two-day Winter School on Cloud Computing and Big-Data Analytics was organised by the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at MIET.
Senior Professor of Computer Science from the School of Computing and Engineering at University of Missouri-Kansas City (UMKC), USA, Prof. Vijay Kumar was the Chief Resource Person on the occasion.
Principal MIET, Prof. S.K Sharma and Joint Director, Dr. Ankur Gupta welcomed Prof. Vijay Kumar and expressed hope that such workshops would help develop capacity and capability to conduct world-class research in the region.
Prof. Kumar has over 40 years of teaching and research experience is several universities in the UK and USA and has published over 100 peer-reviewed papers in international journals and conferences. He has authored four international text-books in Computer Science and has been the Principal Investigator on 10 funded research projects from the US Govt. and Industry. Prof. Vijay Kumar and Prof. Ankur Gupta jointly publish the International Journal of Next-Generation Computing which is a premier journal of computer science in India. Over 40 faculty members drawn from MIET, Central University of Jammu, MBS College of Engineering and Technology, Sai College of Engineering, Pathankot, Trikuta College of Computer Science and Govt. College for Women, Parade attended the workshop by Prof. Kumar.
The workshop which was highly technical in nature covered open research issues in Cloud Computing and Big Data which is a hot area in computer science. Techniques in handling heterogeneous data and deriving meaningful analytics were discussed at length and several challenges collaboratively explored. In Cloud Computing security issues were highlighted with special emphasis on data security in correlation to location of cloud data centers. MIET faculty conducted hands-on sessions for the participants. Lohit Kapoor from IT department conducted a session on CloudSim which is a leading simulator for cloud computing while Rohit Raina, Manager, Center for Software Development conducted the session on IBM BlueMix which is a cloud-based PaaS (Platform-as-a-Service) development and deployment environment for cloud applications.
Salim Qureshi, Head Computer Science and Engineering presented the formal vote of thanks at the conclusion of the workshop.