Khaled S. Ali is a member of the technical staff in the Robotic Software Systems group. He has worked on various space flight missions and research tasks since joining JPL in 1996.

Dr. Ali has participated in the Mars Polar Lander, Mars '01 Lander, both the development and operations of the Mars Exploration Rover flight missions, and development for the InSight mission. He has also participated in various robotics research tasks, and he was the CogE for the Spacecraft Surface Systems Software for the Lunar Surface Operations Testbed.

Dr. Ali is currently participating in the InSight mission. Khaled is the Flight Software CogE for the Instrument Deployment Arm.

Ph.D. in Computer Science (1999) from the Georgia Institute of Technology
M.S. in Computer Science (1995) from the Georgia Institute of Technology
B.S. in Computer Science and Mathematics (1992) from Vanderbilt University

• InSight Instrument Deployment Arm FSW Development
• CogE for Spacecraft Surface Systems Software for the Lunar Surface Operations Testbed
• MER Operations FSW/DM Team Lead, Rover Planner, and FSW Development
• CLARAty Robotic Software Architecture Development
• Science Operations On Planetary Surfaces Development
• Visual Target Tracking Integration
• Various robotics research projects
• FSW Integration for Mars '01 Lander

Flight software, particularly related to robotics