By exploring the interplay between technology, society, and policy, her work contributes to the resilience, sustainability, and inclusiveness of complex socio-technical systems and informs AI governance and decision-making. Her work also includes the design and evaluation of AI-enabled user–system interaction tools, such as recommender systems and conversational agents, aimed at supporting user experience and decision-making in complex digital environments. In essence, she studies where AI ambitions collide with governance, legitimacy, and readiness and how to design systems that don’t break under that pressure.

Anastasija serves on the editorial boards of several leading journals, including International Journal of Information Management, Government Information Quarterly, IEEE Transactions on Technology and Society, and Data & Policy. She is a track chair for major conferences in information systems, AI, and public administration (e.g., IFIP EGOV-CEDEM-EPART, dg.o, AMCIS, HICSS) and contributes to workshops at ECAI, IJCAI, PRICAI, and CBI-EDOC. Her work involves close collaboration with the KNOW Center, the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre, the Digital Statecraft Academy, the European Open Science Cloud (“FAIR Metrics and Digital Objects” Task Force), and the Latvian Open Technology Association. She is actively involved in international research and professional communities, including International Federation for Information Processing Working Group 8.5 (IFIP WG8.5 on ICT and Public Administration), Digital Government Society Committee, including Digital Government Society Chapter on Governing Smart Sustainable Cities (DGS GSSC), EDSC (European Digital Skills Certificate), the AIS Women’s Network College, Women in AI, and other professional communities.

Her previous experience includes visiting researcher positions at Delft University of Technology (Faculty of Technology, Policy and Management) and visiting lecturer roles at Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg. She has also held academic and research positions at the University of Latvia with Faculty of Computing and Innovation Laboratory, and served as an advisor to the Institute for Social and Political Studies. Anastasija has contributed as an expert for the Latvian Council of Sciences across Engineering and Technology-Electrical Engineering, Electronics, Information and Communication Technologies (ICT), and Social Sciences – Economics and Business areas, and has been involved in European Open Science Cloud initiatives on FAIR metrics and data quality.

Her work has been recognized with several distinctions, including the Latvian Open Technology Association’s “Person of the Year” award for contributions to open data and open technologies. She has been listed in Stanford University’s database of the top 2% of scientists worldwide in Artificial Intelligence (2023–2025) and ranked by ScholarGPS (2024-2025) among the top 0.23% of scholars globally, including the top 0.02% in the Government specialty and top-1 researcher in the Open Government specialty in 2025 (by prior 5 years).