Ali, Ahmed K. Associate Professor

Dr. Ahmed K. Ali received his Ph.D. in Architecture and Design Research from Virginia Tech in 2012. Dr. Ali joined the Architecture Department at Texas A&M University as an Assistant Professor in 2015. Dr. Ali teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in architectural design, building materials and construction, and building assemblies and tectonics. He developed two undergraduate and graduate courses in building materials and made significant curriculum changes to the Master of Architecture program in the materials and methods required NAAB accreditation criteria. Dr. Ali's research focuses on the role of design in the Circular Economy and industrial waste flows. He has received over $ 465,000 in research funding. Dr. Ali is a guest reviewer of several top-tier journals. He has obtained one provisional patent, written eight peer-reviewed journal articles, one book chapter, and fifteen papers in conference proceedings. He was the keynote speaker at the Scandinavian architecture conference PLAT18 in Sweden, and the Circular Economy Roundup at Austin Technology Incubator. Dr. Ali has chaired 2 doctoral committees, 17 master's committees, and served on 7 others. Dr. Ali received the J. Thomas Regan Interdisciplinary Prize in 2016, and the Architecture Research Centers Consortium New Researcher Award in 2018. Dr. Ali's work has been cited in numerous prestigious press including the Steven Holl Foundation's critical research archive, Bill Zahner's Steel Surfaces book by Wiley, General Motors Green, and Texas Architect Magazine.