Ali obtained his M.A.Sc in Civil Engineering at Sharif University of Technology in August 2017. In September 2017, He started his Ph.D. at University of Waterloo. He is investigating the Fretting Fatigue Behaviour of Bridge Stay Cables at Saddle Supports. Under the supervision of Prof. Walbridge, he is planning to conduct a number of fretting fatigue tests on round specimens under variable amplitude loading conditions. He is also conducting finite element and probabilistic fatigue analysis. Ali successfully defended his thesis in 2022 and is now working as a post-doctoral fellow with Profs. Walbridge and Pandey.