Anna is a licensed architect with more than 10 years of hands-on experience in the practice of architecture and urban design, leading residential, commercial, and urban renewal projects. She holds an MS.C. in Architecture and town Planning from the Technion and is currently a Ph.D. researcher at the MTRL lab.

Anna’s research lies at the intersection of urban complexity, machine learning (ML) and cultural sustainability. Her master thesis introduced a ML approach for urban design interventions in non-planned settlements, as a method to bridge the gap between top-down and bottom-up design practices and generate development alternatives that are sufficiently sensitive to the local communities, promoting preservation of traditional knowledge and cultural sustainability. In her Ph.D., Anna’s research focuses on leveraging ML to create predictive models that can describe the evolution of complex urban fabrics over time.