Watson Research Center. She received her bachelor's and master's degrees in computer science and electrical engineering from MIT in 2000 and 2001. Rania is a codeveloper and coarchitect of the IBM BPEL4WS prototype implementation (BPWS4J). She is an active member of the OASIS WS-BPEL Technical Committee standardizing BPEL. She has published numerous papers in the field and has served on the program committees of conferences and workshops. Rania is currently pursuing her Ph.D. studies under Professor Dr. Frank Leymann with the University of Stuttgart.