Ali has a Master in Computer Science with a thesis in Bioinformatics. Ali is a data scientist in bioinformatics using deep learning and NLP. Ali is currently a research assistant in the Bioinformatics Research Group & Master student at Nile University. His recent work included different applications of deep learning in targeted metagenomics. He was a member of H3ABioNet, where he supervised 2 bioinformatics courses as a teaching assistant. Also, he participated in IBM/H3ABioNet Malaria Hackathon that combined systems biology with machine learning. This work was published in Genome Research: https://genome.cshlp.org/content/28/5/759.full