Raj Ranjan

About

Prof. Ranjan is an Australian-British computer scientist known for research in Distributed Systems (Cloud Computing, Big Data, and the Internet of Things). He is University Chair Professor for the Internet of Things research in the School of Computing of Newcastle University, UK. He directs the Networked and Ubiquitous Systems Engineering (NUSE) Group and serves as Academic Director of School of Computing and Research Director of Newcastle Urban Observatory. He has published over 250 papers and is ranked among top authors in his field.

Selected publications

• Wearable-based Behaviour Interpolation for Semi-supervised Human Activity Recognition
• Rapid Crowd Evacuation for Passenger Ships using LPWAN
• Optimization of mitigation deployment using deep reinforcement learning over an enhanced ATT&CK
• Modular Neural Network for Edge-based Detection of Early-stage IoT Botnet
• Long Live the Image: On Enabling Resilient Production Database Containers for Microservice Applications
• High-resolution mapping of GDP using multi-scale feature fusion by integrating remote sensing and POI data
• GeoDeploy: Geo-distributed Application Deployment using Benchmarking
• General data protection regulation: a study on attitude and emotional empowerment
• Edge-Cloud Collaborative Streaming Video Analytics with Multi-agent Deep Reinforcement Learning
• Data Management Challenges in Blockchain-Based Applications