Zaheer Ali
Professor of Practice - Space and Technology Leadership at Thunderbird School of Global Management
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Thunderbird School of Global Management
Zaheer Ali is a respected expert on space technology and policy, an agilist, leader, and technologist. He is now a Managing Partner at New Space Finance, Professor of Practice at Thunderbird School of Global Management, which is part of ASU, and Director of High-Performance Computate at Hewlett Packard Enterprise. He is also an advisor to multiple space start-ups including ThinkOrbital which is building a 4th generation space station, Pulsar Fusion, Neutron Star Systems, and Space Railway, amongst others.
He is invited to speak around the world on space, artificial intelligence, the future of work, and how to help enterprises become agile. As both a professor and entrepreneur he advises several companies in the New Space Sector. He previously served as a Senior Manager at USRA, leading aviation data sciences, artificial intelligence, quantum sciences, and nanotechnology for the NASA Ames NAMS contract. He was formerly a senior member of the project management office for NASA’s Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) with responsibility for all software products and the safety and quality of all USRA work on SOFIA. Previously he built science instrumentation and the laboratory facilities for SOFIA and stood up their science ground operations.
In addition, he managed science ground support on multiple deployments around the world. Zaheer is also a founding executive for Material Mind, an applied AI science company, and AIXIA Global, an Industry 4.0 technology integration and digital/agile transformation company. He is trained as a research physicist which has resulted in patents, an R&D100 award, and over 40 authored or co-authored publications. He has also worked as an engineer and manager of teams and programs for the US Department of Energy’s Nevada Test Site where he co-founded the National Center for Nuclear Security, worked as a Principal Investigator and Shot Director at the Laboratory for Laser Energetics of the University of Rochester and consulted as a micro/nano device (MEMS) engineer.
Zaheer is also a Thunderbird Alum, being part of the 28th Executive Cohort (E-28) and before that is a Golden Bear, having studied experimental physics, nuclear engineering, and classics at the University of California, Berkeley. He also holds multiple professional certificates in nanotechnology, agile business practice, project management, and leadership functions.
Videos
SIS2021 - Space Commercialization & Policy - Dan Hart & Zaheer Ali
Jason Kim, Tim Shephard, Ken Peterman, Zaheer Ali, and Shelli Brunswick
Space Talks with Z - Ken Peterman & Jason Kim
Out of This World Science with Zaheer Ali of NASA's SOFIA
Operation Warp Speed-Current and Future Outlook - W/ Zaheer Ali & MG Christopher Sharpten
COVID-19 Restart Strategies - Science-based approaches to succeeding in this age of COVID
Space Talks w/Z "Test Gods" Dan Javorsek, Nick Schmidle, Tucker Hamilton, Zaheer Ali & Ben McNally
Zaheer Ali, USRA, and Tim Ellis, Relativity Space Fireside Chat
America's Future Series Space Talks with Zaheer Ali & Laura Forczyk
Agile, Culture, and How to Make It Work for Us | Zaheer Ali | TEDxHastingsSt
SIS2021 Zaheer Ali, Mike Gold & Dr Geg Autry Interview
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