Anna Viktorovna Shkalenko is an associate professor in the scientific activity sector at the center for project activities of Moscow Polytechnic University, an associate professor at the department of innovation and strategic development at the higher school of management of the Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation, and an associate professor at the department of management and marketing at the institute of management and regional economy of Volgograd State University. She holds a master's degree in management from the national research university Higher School of Economics and a PhD in economics from Volgograd State University. She leads the project “Modeling an intelligent system for sustainable development management of territories based on machine learning methods”, funded by the Pyotr Kapitsa Grant. She has extensive experience participating in projects funded by the Russian Science Foundation (RSF) and the Russian Foundation for Basic Research (RFBR), and has numerous publications in international databases. She is a laureate of the Volgograd Region Award in Science and Technology and the 2021 laureate of the award named after honored scientist of the Russian Federation O.V. Inshakov for significant scientific achievements in institutional economic theory and the development of O.V. Inshakov's scientific school. She is an expert for RSF and RFBR, and a participant and organizer of international conferences.