Christina Lau is a senior technical staff member at the IBM Toronto Lab. Currently, she is an architect on the On Demand Development team, focusing on the On Demand architecture and SOA engagements. Christina has been one of the lead architects for the Eclipse-based WebSphere Studio since it was conceived in 1999 and led the development of the XML and Relational Data tools in Studio. Prior to that, she led development projects in Component Broker and VisualAge C++. Christina holds numerous patents, has written many technical papers, and is the author of Object-Oriented Programming Using SOM and DSOM. She has a bachelor's and a master's degree in computer science, both from the University of Alberta.
