Yael Engelhart is a trained Architect and a Professional photographer. She holds a Bachelor degree from the department of Architecture at the Bezalel academy in Jerusalem, as well as a Bachelor degree in Fine arts from the Tel aviv university. Yael is currently a researcher at the MTRL Lab in the Department of Architecture, Technion- Israel institute of Technology.

Her research aims to develop an innovative technology for housing solutions, based on the early stages of machine learning computer models (YONA software). Alongside with her research, she is teaching design theory at the Technion Faculty of Architecture.