Khalid Al-Ali

Khalid Al-Ali is the executive director of the University of California Office for NASA Partnerships (UCONP).
Prior to this appointment, Dr. Al-Ali was the executive director of the University Affiliated Research Center (UARC). He oversaw over 150 world-leading scientists, engineers, and staff. Dr. Al-Ali was the principal investigator, project lead, and program visionary at NASA Ames Research Center and NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratories (JPL), on key projects involving advanced aircraft and spacecraft technologies, intelligent avionics, novel power systems, planetary rovers and robots, spacecraft, and autonomous exploratory vehicles for Lunar, Martian, and Antarctic missions.
He was the science advisor for the office of the center director at NASA Ames Research Center, where he contributed towards setting future strategies and directions for NASA.
He founded the Carnegie Mellon Innovations Lab (CMIL) and directed its activities to create advanced technologies for compact, highly capable mobile autonomous vehicles covering ground, air and space operations.
With deep expertise in Mechanical, Electrical, and Aerospace Engineering, he led multidisciplinary, award-winning and high profile NASA projects as Principal Investigator and was the principal UAV test pilot for the Adaptive Control and Evolvable Systems Group at NASA Ames Research Center.
Dr. Al-Ali is a founder of Senseta, a DARPA-funded spinoff company from Carnegie Mellon University that provides enabling technologies for intelligent systems that sense, think and act.
Dr. Al-Ali has been involved with a multitude of scientific and research endeavors with General Electric Medical Systems, and both University of Colorado at Boulder, and University of California at Berkeley. He has been on numerous global teams that resolved a multitude of issues ranging from scientific, technical, project implementation and strategic. His work has resulted in the creation of innovations that have given GE an unfair market advantage (especially in mammography and pediatrics), and methodologies that have evolved to become best-practice X-Ray dosage equipment of today.
While a scientist at the Universities of Colorado and California and a faculty member in the University of Qatar, he has worked extensively and lead efforts in robotics, controls, acoustics for various multi-media systems, space shuttle payload systems, and medical systems. Dr. Al-Ali is the principal inventor of a U.S. and worldwide-patented technology involving advanced control systems for nonlinear acoustic devices, along with a multitude of disclosed inventions not yet patented. Dr. Al-Ali holds a Ph.D. in Mechanical and Electrical Engineering from the University of California at Berkeley.

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