Dr. Mikkilineni and Dr. Giovanni Morana co-chair the 2nd track on Convergence of Distributed Clouds, Grids and their Management in IEEE International WETICE 2012 Conference.
Dr. Rao Mikkilineni received his PhD from University of California, San Diego in 1972 working under the guidance of prof. Walter Kohn (Nobel Laureate 1998). He later worked as a research associate at the University of Paris, Orsay, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York and Columbia University, New York.
He is currently the Founder and CTO of Kawa Objects Inc., California, a Silicon Valley startup developing next generation computing infrastructure. His past experience includes working at AT&T Bell Labs, Bellcore, U S West, several startups and more recently at Hitachi Data Systems. He has lived and worked in USA, France and Japan.
http://mikkilineni.wordpress.com provides his thoughts on Japanese Management
Dr. Giovanni Morana received his PhD from University of Catania, Italy and is currently at the University of Catania. He has contributed many papers in grid computing, cloud computing and distributed systems management.
For more information on the IEEE track on Convergence of Distributed Clouds, Grids and their management go to
www.workshop.kawaobjects.com and
http://workshop.kawaobjects.com/2010-overview.html
