Dr. San Murugesan

San Murugesan is a multifaceted professional, serving as the director of BRITE Professional Services, an adjunct professor at Western Sydney University, Australia, and a Senior Consultant with Cutter Consortium in the USA. His diverse experience includes a tenure as a Senior Research Fellow of the US National Research Council at NASA Ames Research Center in California.

Serving more than 40 years in industry and academia, Murugesan has successfully led several innovative IT projects, providing leadership in research and development, and offered consultancy to businesses. His expertise and interests span a range of areas and include green IT, sustainability, AI, cloud computing, the Internet of Things,  IT applications,  and smart systems.

He edited or co-edited 12 books, including popular Wiley-IEEE CS books Harnessing Green IT: Principles and Practices (John Wiley, 2012) and Encyclopedia of Cloud Computing (Wiley-IEEE, 2016), both of which were translated into Chinese, Web Engineering (Springer 2001) and Handbook of Research on Web 2.0, 3.0, and X.0: Technologies, Business, and Social Applications (Information Science Reference, 2009). He edited or co-edited 40 special issues of international journals on a range of topics.

Currently, he serves as Interim EIC of IEEE Intelligent Systems. He was editor-in-chief of the IT Professional magazine and editor of IEEE Computer magazine, and he edited the “Cloud Cover” department for Computer magazine. He serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Banking and Finance Technology and Web Engineering and the editorial advisory boards of IEEE IT Professional magazine. Committee.

He has been a Distinguished Visitor of the IEEE Computer Society since 1994. He was a member of the IEEE Computer Society’s Board of Governors and Chair of the IEEE CS Magazines Operations Committee. He has also been co-chair of the COMPSAC Symposium on IT in Practice (ITiP) series since 2016 and the COMPSAC AIML (Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Workshop series since 2018). He is a member of the IEEE Ad Hoc Committee on Coordinating IEEE Response to Climate Change.

Murugesan served in various senior positions, including Director of Research and Head of Computing Department at Southern Cross University and the University of Western Sydney, both in Australia, Director and Professor of Graduate Management Program at Multimedia University in Malaysia, and Deputy Division Head and Project Engineer at the Indian Space Research Organization, Bangalore, India. He holds a Doctorate (PhD), Master in Technology, and Bachelor of Engineering (Honours) degrees.

San Murugesan’s contributions to the field have been widely recognized and celebrated. He is a Fellow of the Australian Computer Society, IETE, and IICA, a Golden Core Member and Distinguished Contributor (charter member) of the IEEE Computer Society, and a Life Member of IEEE. In a testament to his ‘distinguished and valuable service, commitment to excellence,’ he has been honoured with the Computer Society’s second-highest service award: the Distinguished Service Certificate. Currently, he is Chair of the IEEE NSW Section Computer Society chapter. For more detailed information, please visit www.tinyurl.com/san1bio.