Ana is Assistant Professor at University of Montreal, Canada. She has been Visiting Assistant Professor at Keio University, Tokyo; International Researcher and Invited Professor at Polytechnic University of Madrid; and visiting professor in different universities. Previously, she held the position of Associate Professor and Researcher at Universidad de Las Américas, Quito, Ecuador, and founder and Director of the Master in Advanced Architectural Design at the same university. Ana Medina’s research is chiefly concerned with critically examining strategies and practices of collective space in housing and public spaces, in relation to issues of privatization, informality, and healthy spaces. Her work contributes to the field of architecture and urban design through integrating advances in machine learning and artificial intelligence into spatio-temporal data analysis, geospatial analysis/GIS, and cartographies. Her research background includes being international researcher at the Centre for Research Architecture, Goldsmiths University of London and the History; the Critical Thinking Program at the Architectural Association in London; and at CO+LABO at Keio University in Tokyo.