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Contact Info:
Khalid Al-Ali
Carnegie Mellon University
Silicon Valley
Building 23 (MS-11)
Moffett Field, CA 94035
Office: # 220
Phone: 650-335-2849
Email: khalid.al-ali@sv.cmu.edu
Carnegie Mellon Innovations Lab
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Khalid Al-Ali, Director, Carnegie Mellon Innovations Lab (CMIL)
Areas of Interest:
Robotics, Small Spacecraft, Technology Spinoffs
Education
Ph.D. 1986, University of California, Berkeley
Overview:
Dr. Khalid Al-Ali is the principal investigator, project lead, and program visionary at the NASA Ames Research Center and NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratories (JPL), on key projects involving advanced aircraft and spacecraft control systems, intelligent avionics, novel power systems, planetary rovers and robots, spacecraft, and autonomous exploratory vehicles for Lunar, Martian, and Antarctic missions. He is also the founder of Senseta, a robotic sentry and patrol platform provider for the space automaton and security industry. He founded the Carnegie Mellon Innovations Laboratory and directs its activities to create compact, highly capable mobile autonomous vehicles covering ground, air and space operations. Some of these platforms are already in use by NASA Ames and NASA JPL as research test beds for NASA-relevant technologies and educational tools to excite students about robotics, science, and engineering. With deep expertise in advanced control systems, he has lead multidisciplinary, award-winning, and high profile NASA projects as Principal Investigator and is the principal UAV test pilot for the Adaptive Control and Evolvable Systems Group at NASA Ames Research Center. As Director of Carnegie Mellon's Innovations Lab, he oversees a superlative group of scientists and engineers conducting multidisciplinary, high profile, and award winning research.
Dr. Al-Ali has been involved with a multitude of scientific and research endeavors with General Electric Medical Systems, University of Colorado at Boulder, and University of California at Berkeley in the U.S.A. He has been on numerous global teams that resolved a multitude of issues ranging from scientific, technical, strategic, and project implementation. His work has resulted in the creation of innovations that have lead to breakthroughs and methodologies that have evolved to become best practices. While a scientist at the Universities of Colorado and California, 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.
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