Spending a decade in the software industry in Turkey, Germany and The Netherlands, has given Ali some real-life perspective into how not to design software systems. Ali has a background in Math and Computing Science and he believes that there is a big gap between what we have and what we need with regards to software and computers.

His ambition to create new solutions and possibilities is what brought him to CIID as he wants to gain a new outlook for designing computational mediums within the context of science, anthropology, and art.