Federated Learning: Foundations and Applications provides a comprehensive guide to the foundations, architectures, systems, security, privacy, and applications of federated learning. Federated learning has become an increasingly important machine learning technique because it introduces local data analysis within clients and requires exchanging only model parameters between clients and servers. This book covers the fundamental concepts of federated learning, including machine learning, deep learning, centralized learning, and distributed learning processes. The book then progresses to cover the architectures, algorithms, and system models of federated learning, as well as security, privacy, and energy-efficiency techniques. Finally, the book presents various applications of federated learning through real-world case studies illustrating both centralized and decentralized federated learning.
Dr. Rajkumar Buyya is Redmond Barry Distinguished Professor and Director of the Cloud Computing and
Distributed Systems (CLOUDS) Laboratory at the University of Melbourne, Australia. He is also serving as the
founding CEO of Manjrasoft, a spin-off company of the University, commercializing its innovations in Cloud
Computing. He has authored over 650 publications and seven textbooks including Mastering Cloud Computing
from McGraw Hill, China Machine Press, and Morgan Kaufmann for Indian, Chinese and international markets
respectively. Dr. Buyya is one of the most highly-cited authors in Computer Sience and Software Engineering
worldwide. “A Scientometric Analysis of Cloud Computing Literature” by German scientists ranked Dr. Buyya
as the World's Top-Cited Author and the World's Most-Productive Author in Cloud Computing. He has been
recognized as a Web of Science “Highly Cited Researcher” for four consecutive years since 2016. Dr. Buyya
was recognized as Scopus Researcher of the Year 2017 with Excellence in Innovative Research Award from
Elsevier; "Lifetime Achievement Awards" from two Indian universities, and the “Best of the World,” in the
Computing Systems field, by The Australian 2019 Research Review. Software technologies for Grid, Cloud, and
Fog computing developed under Dr. Buyya's leadership have gained rapid acceptance and are in use at several
academic institutions and commercial enterprises in 40 countries around the world. 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 the
international research leadership of Dr. Buyya are recognized through the award of the “2009 IEEE Medal for
Excellence in Scalable Computing” from the IEEE Computer Society TCSC. Manjrasoft's Aneka Cloud
technology developed under his leadership has received the "Frost & Sullivan New Product Innovation Award."
Dr. Buyya served as founding Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing. He is currently
serving as Editor-in-Chief of Software: Practice and Experience, a long-standing journal in the field, established
more than 50 years ago.
Dr. Anwesha Mukherjee has received B. Tech in Information Technology from Kalyani Govt. Engineering College in 2009. She has received M. Tech in Information Technology from West Bengal University of Technology in 2011. She stood first class first in M. Tech and received Inspire Fellowship from the Department of Science & Technology, Govt. of India to pursue her Ph.D. She has received Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering from West Bengal University of Technology in 2018. She has worked as a Research Associate in the computer science department of IIT Kharagpur. She is currently working as an Assistant Professor and Head of the Department of Computer Science, Mahishadal Raj College, West Bengal, India. She is Research Visitor in the CLOUD Lab, The University of Melbourne. Her research areas include IoT, Fog computing, mobile network, Geospatial informatics and mobile cloud computing. She has received Young Scientist Award from International Union of Radio Science in 2014, 2020, and 2021. She has more than eighty research publications in international journals, conference proceedings, book chapters, and three edited books.
Dr. Sajal K. Das is the Curators’ Distinguished Professor and Daniel St. Clair Endowed Chair in Computer Science at Missouri University of Science and Technology, where he was the Chair of Computer Science Department during 2013-2017. He also served the US National Science Foundation (NSF) as a Program Director in the Computer and Network Systems Division. Dr. Das’ interdisciplinary research spans cyber-physical systems, IoT, cybersecurity, machine learning, data science, wireless and sensor networks, mobile and pervasive computing, smart environments, parallel/cloud/edge computing, social and biological networks, applied graph theory and game theory. He has contributed significantly to these areas and published extensively in top-tier venues (more than 350 journal articles and more than 450 peer-reviewed conference papers). He coauthored four books, 59 book chapters, and 5 US patents. He directed over $24 million funded research projects. His h-index is 99 with more than 42,000 citations.
Dr. Das is the founding Editor-in-Chief of Elsevier’s Pervasive and Mobile Computing journal and serves as an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Computing, IEEE/ACM transactions on Networking, ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks, and Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing. A founder of the IEEE PerCom, WoWMoM, SMARTCOMP and ACM ICDCN conferences, he has served as General and Program Chair of reputed conferences. He is a recipient of 12 Best Paper Awards in flagship conferences like ACM MobiCom and IEEE PerCom; and numerous awards for teaching, mentoring and research including the IEEE Computer Society’s Technical Achievement award for pioneering contributions to sensor networks and mobile computing, and the University of Missouri System President’s Award for Sustained Career Excellence. Dr. Das has mentored and graduated 12 postdoctoral fellows, 51 Ph.D. scholars, 31 MS thesis, and numerous undergraduate research students. Currently he is supervising 9 Ph.D. students and 4 postdocs. He is a Distinguished alumnus of the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore and a Fellow of the IEEE, National Academy of Inventors (NAI) and Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association (AAIA).
