Dr. Ali is currently with School of Information and Communication Technology, CQUniversity, Australia. He received his PhD in Information Technology from Clayton School of Information Technology, Monash University. His research interests include Computational Intelligence, Data Mining, Smart Grid, Cloud Computing and Biomedical Engineering. In particular, he is currently leading in a research group on Computational Intelligence. He has published more than 90 research papers in international journals and conferences, most of them are IEEE/ELSEVIER journals/conferences, such as IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, WSEAS Transactions on Information Science and Applications, Journal of Medical Systems, Springer, Renewable Energy, ELSEVIER. He has also published several book chapters and books. His Data Mining book is being used as text in more than two dozen of universities around the Globe. Dr. Ali has chaired many conferences including DMAI, NSS, ICDKE and ISDA. He has been a program committee member for about 40 international conferences such as IEEE TrustCom, IEEE ICCIT, IEEE/ACIS, IEEE ICARCV and IEEE AINA. Currently he is the editor-in-chief for International Journal of Emerging Technologies in Sciences and Engineering (IJETSE), Canada. He is an IEEE Senior Member. Dr. Ali has received a couple of awards including the Post Graduation Publication Award, Monash University, 2004, the Excellence in Supervision Award, CQUniversity, 2007 and the Top 10 Course Designers, CQUniversity, 2010.

Khorshed, M. T., Ali, S., and Wasimi, S., "A Survey on Gaps, Threats Remediation Challenges and Some Thoughts for Proactive Attack Detection in Cloud Computing" Accepted for the Future Generation of Computer Systems, ELSEVIER, 2012.

Shafiullah, GM., M. T. Oo, A., Ali, S. A., D. Jarvis, and Wolfs, P., "Prospects of Renewable Energy - A feasibility study in the Australian context", Accepted for the International Journal of Renewable Energy, ELSEVIER, 2011.

Mazid, MM., Ali, S., and Tickle, K., "Input space reduction for Rule Based Classification", Wseas Transactions on Information Science and Applications, Issue 6, vol. 7. pp. 749-759, 2010.

M. M. Darwieesh., Marghny H. Mohamed., and Ali, S., "Advanced Matrix Algorithm (AMA): Reduce Number of Scan for Association Rules Generation", Int. J. Business Intelligence and Data Mining, Vol. 6, No. 2, 2011, pp. 202-214.

Nahar, J., Tickle, K., Ali, S., and Chen, P., "Significant Cancer Prevention Factor Extraction: An Association Rule Discovery Approach", Journal of Medical Systems, Springer, 2009.

       Conference Publicity Chair: Eleventh International Conferences on Intelligent Systems Design and Applications (ISDA 2011), 22-24 November 2011, Cordoba, Spain.

       Local Arrangement Chair: International Conference on Data and Knowledge Engineering (ICDKE) 1-3 September 2010, Melbourne, Australia. 

       Local Chair: International Conference on Network and System Security (NSS 2009), October 19-21, 2009, Gold Coast, Australia.

       Program Chair: IEEE 2nd International Workshop on Data Mining and Artificial Intelligence (DMAI 2009), 19-21 October 2009, Gold Cost, Australia.

       Program Chair: IEEE 1^st International Workshop on Data Mining and Artificial Intelligence (DMAI08), 24-27 December, 2008, Khulna, Bangladesh.