Dr Anna Liu is a R&D leader at National ICT Australia (NICTA), high tech incubation lab sponsored by the Australian Government. She leads a team of researchers and engineers developing cutting edge solutions in the cloud computing space. Prior to joining NICTA, she was an architect at MIcrosoft, working with enterprise organisations in engineering integration solutions. Dr Liu holds a PhD in Computer Science, with specialisation in distributed systems and performance engineering. Her team's latest R&D work has resulted in the creation of yuruware.com, with the goal of simpifying cloud adoption for businesses.