About
Ali is an equal part scientist and strategist. He is a driven innovator with a relentless passion for Machine Learning (ML) projects that infuse robotics for high efficiency and extreme performance. Ali has engaged with Fortune 100 clients: Accenture, Amazon, AT&T, Facebook, Instagram, Lockheed Martin, Meta, Microsoft, and Toyota. Previously, he led a cross-organization initiative to harmonize autonomous mobility robots and people to maximize throughput with a fleet of thousands of robots at Amazon Robotics. Currently, he is focused on productionalizing Signal Growth machine learning models at Meta.
Ali serves as a seminar speaker for the Business Leadership Center at Southern Methodist University and was accorded a Faculty position for the graduate Data Science program at Northwestern University.
Professional
Experience
Ali’s experience in Artificial Intelligence (AI) at an AI start-up and scaling it to a 10x Series A fundraise has allowed him to get deeper in sciences and, most recently, into robotics. He leads multi-functional engineering development teams across several robotic subsystems, such as manipulation, sortation, and storage. Ali is also piloting breakthrough artificial intelligence systems for self-driving units at a scale of thousands of drive units and sortation systems.
01. DATA SCIENCE EXPERIMENTS
02. APPLIED DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION
03. AUTONOMOUS MOBILITY ROBOTS
Patents
RESEARCH & PUBLICATIONS
Date Issued: 2024-05-07
Patent: Use Multiple Artificial Intelligence (AI) Engines To Determine A Next Best Action For Professional Development Of Employees
Description: Multi-step artificial intelligence model to use employee performance and coaching profile to determine next best action in improving employee performance in subsequent customer interactions.
Patent #: 11,978,003
PUBLICATIONS
Ali recently contributed to and provided a quote for the highly-rated and best-selling book to prepare students for a position in data science and analytics: Ace the Data Science Interview by Nick Singh. Nick also founded DataLemur to help people prepare and practice for SQL and Data Science interview questions.
“Graduate students should read this book as it provides a structured approach to prepare for their next data science interview.”
— Ali Gowani, Faculty at Northwestern University (MS in Data Science) & Automation at Amazon Global Robotics
Interests
SPORTS & TECHNOLOGY
© Copyright 2004 - 2025 | All Rights Reserved.