Ana joined the Sustainalytics AI Research team in 2023. They develop AI solutions to help reduce or even eliminate repetitive tasks for fellow analysts while creating new frameworks to assist them in the ever-expanding universe of sustainability and financial analysis. Her main purpose inside the team is bridging the gap between research and production by orchestrating the transition of AI innovations into real-world applications. Before that, she wore the Data Scientist hat and worked on all components of a large scale project in Sales that put into perspective the importance of key elements of any data project: reliable data pipelines, good model performance and last, but not least, automation.