Dr Tayyaba Anees was born in Pakistan. She received her PhD from the Vienna University of Technology, Vienna, Austria, in 2012. Her PhD dissertation is in the service-oriented architecture and web services availability domain. She has worked as a project assistant at the Vienna University of Technology for four years. She is currently working as the Director Software Engineering program/Assistant Professor at the Software Engineering department of the University of Management and Technology, Lahore. Her research interests include service-oriented architecture, web services, the Web of Things, deep learning, artificial intelligence, semantic web, cloud computing, the IoT, software availability, software safety, software fault tolerance, and real-time data warehousing.