Anna Dyson teaches design, technology and theory at the School of Architecture at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. She is director of the Center for Architecture, Science and Ecology (CASE), which hosts the Built Ecologies graduate program. Dyson received a Baccalauréat Général from Université Laval and a Master of Architecture from Yale University. She has worked as a design architect and product designer in several offices in Canada, Europe and the United States. As Director of Materialab and then CASE, she has directed interdisciplinary systems research sponsored by the US DOE, NYSTAR and NYSERDA. Dyson has received numerous design awards and holds multiple international patents for building systems inventions.