He received the BTech degree in electronics and communication engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee, in 2003. He has four years of professional experience in the software industry. He received his PhD degree in Computer Science from the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs in 2013. He has also worked as a research aide at the Argonne National Laboratory during his Ph.D study. Dr. Lama's research interests include the areas of Cloud computing, sustainable computing, autonomic resource and power management, and big data processing in the Cloud.