Dr. Raj Godhia

Collaborative Engineering: a viewpoint from ubiquitous computing

Engineering and scientific communities are rapidly moving to a collaborative direction as this borderless globalization continues.  In this presentation, we will verify how various technologies are indeed making collaborative engineering environments into reality by focusing on the following agenda:

• Importance of Grid, middleware and portal technologies in a distributed heterogeneous HPC environment.
  

• Workflow and workload management in a globalised heterogeneous ubiquitous compute environment.
• Collaborative visualization for engineering compute environments.
• Challenges and future research issues to be addressed.
  

Biographical sketch

Dr. Raj Godhia is the founding director for Mega Computing (Singapore) Pte Ltd, overseeing the operations of this IT organization since July 1997. Mega Computing represents Transportation modeling software in the Asia region, and Computer Aided Engineering and Computer Aided Optimization simulation software in South East Asia. Dr. Godhia has since established operations in Malaysia, Mekarprise Sdn Bhd, to provide local sales and technical support to customers in those regions.

Before starting Mega Computing, Dr. Godhia was the Director of Business Development at Silicon Graphics (SGI) for the ASEAN region. Prior to the merger between Cray Research and Silicon Graphics, Dr. Godhia was the managing director for Cray Research in Southeast Asia, and was responsible for overseeing operations in ASEAN.

Previous to joining Cray Research, Dr. Godhia was working for Cognos Far East as senior manager. He was involved in recruiting and managing distributors, resellers, and Value-Added Resellers for the Asian and Indian subcontinent region. He had also worked in Far East Computers where he was responsible for selling manufacturing (MRP II) software packages in Singapore.

Dr. Godhia has a Doctor of Business Administration and a Masters in Business Administration from the University of South Australia, and several diplomas in Marketing and Business. He is a founding and council member of the Intelligent Transportation Society (Singapore) and member of the Road Engineering Association of Malaysia.

The area of focus for Dr. Godhia’s doctorate is in the Internationalization of Small Computer Software Firms with the intention of finding out how the previous working experience and background of the CEO influences the internationalization process of such small firms.

Dr. Godhia is married since 1990 to his wife Esther, with whom he shares his passion for fine wines and exotic foods.