Dr. Muhammed Ali Örnek is a former full-time professor  at Istanbul Technical University and he has previously worked as an instructor and a research assistant in the same institution since 2009. From ITU, he earned a BSc in Architecture in 2008, an MSc in Architectural Design Computing in 2010, and a PhD in Landscape Architecture in 2016. During his PhD research, Örnek focused on the instructional potential of computer games for landscape architecture education and developed an educational game for undergraduate students to improve the understanding of course material and the performance of learning. Now, he explores the boundaries of digital visualization and fabrication tools in landscape architecture.