Dr. Ali is currently a President and co-founder of Deeia Systems, an energy efficiency and renewable energy company. Andre is also a founder of Rola Technologies, a technical, market and product strategy consulting company in electronics thermal design and energy efficiency. He is a former chief thermal architect at Apple where he is credited for leading and innovating thermal technologies and design architectures for Apple’s Macbook, Macbook Pro, MacBook Air, iPhone, |iPad and other platforms. He is a former thermal technologist at Intel’s mobile product group. His interests and research focus are in electronics and buildings thermal management and control, energy efficiency, renewable energy and environmental impact. Dr. Ali is an inventor of over 20 patents and applications and publisher of numerous papers in the field of thermal management, CFD and heat transfer. He also served as keynote speaker, panelist and chair at various conferences and forums worldwide. He has a BS in Civil Engineering from Damascus University, MS in Mechanical Engineering from WPI and PhD in Mechanical Engineering from University of Maryland.