Tahir Alyas is currently working as a Director ORIC/Associate Professor in the Computer Science Department, Lahore Garrison University, Lahore, Pakistan. He completed his M.Phil and Ph.D. in Computer Science at the School of Computer Science, National College of Business Administrator and Economics, Lahore, Pakistan. He also completed his Bachelor's degree in Computer Science and Master's degree in E-Commerce at the Bahauddin Zakariya University, Multan, Pakistan. Before joining Lahore Garrison University, Alyas has worked in various academic institutes such as the Punjab Vocational Training Council (PVTC), and as an instructor and visiting lecturer in different universities: Bahauddin Zakariya University, Multan, Pakistan, NCBA&E Lahore, and Superior University. He was Oracle certified as a Cloud Infrastructure 2019 Architect Professional, Cloud Infrastructure 2019 Architect Associate, Cloud Infrastructure Foundations 2020 Associate, and Autonomous Database Cloud 2019 Specialist. He has been teaching graduate and undergraduate computer science students for the past 12 years. Presently, he is guiding two Ph.D. scholars as a co-supervisor and six M.Phil. scholars. Alyas's research interests primarily include machine learning, IoT, cloud computing, computational intelligence, big data, etc. He has published more than 50 research articles with a cumulative JCR-IF of 80+ in reputable international journals as well as international conferences.