Pethuru Raj Chelliah

Pethuru Raj PhD has been working as a cloud infrastructure architect in the IBM Global Cloud Center of Excellence (CoE), IBM India Bangalore. Previously he worked as TOGAF-certified enterprise architecture (EA) consultant in Wipro Consulting Services (WCS) Division, Bangalore. He also had a fruitful stint as a lead architect in the corporate research (CR) division of Robert Bosch, India. He has gained 15 years of IT industry experience. He finished the CSIR-sponsored PhD degree in Anna University, Chennai and continued the UGC-sponsored postdoctoral research in the department of Computer Science and Automation, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore till 1999. Thereafter, he was granted a couple of international research fellowships (JSPS and JST) to work as a research scientist for 3.5 years in two leading Japanese universities. His technical competencies lie in service oriented architecture (SOA), cloud computing, enterprise architecture (EA), context-aware computing & machine-to-machine (M2M) integration, Big Data Analytics, and the Internet of Things (IoT). He has been contributing book chapters for a number of high-quality technology books that are being edited by internationally acclaimed professors and professionals. The CRC Press, USA had also released his first book titled as “Cloud Enterprise Architecture” in the year 2012. He has edited a book on the title “Cloud Infrastructures for Big Data Analytics” this year for IGI Global, USA. Currently he is writing a book on “Intelligent Cities” in association with another IBMer for CRC Press, USA. He maintains an Information Technology (IT) portal at www.peterindia.net