Through the ASEAN-U.S. S&T Fellowship, Dr. Ali actively engaged the Academy of Sciences Malaysia to prepare and draft policies and frameworks to accelerate scientific activity, promoting a science culture among the community and fostering collaboration with other ASEAN strategic partners. More specifically, he contributed to the Malaysia Science Outlook 2017, which contains policy recommendations on six strategic thrusts and is expected to be presented to the Malaysian Cabinet later this year.
Dr. Ali holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Electronic and Computer Engineering fro University Putra Malaysia (1998) and both Master’s Degree in Microelectronic System Design (2004) and a Ph.D in Electrical and Electronics (2010) from the University of Southampton in the United Kingdom.