Ali Abdollahi

Ali Abdollahi has a solid work experience in the field of battery algorithms and software engineering. Ali currently holds a role as a Sr. Software and Algorithm Engineer (Battery Management System) at Element Energy, Inc. starting from November 2022. Prior to that, they worked as a Sr. Battery Algorithms Engineer at Rivian from August 2021 to October 2022. Before joining Rivian, Ali was a Senior Software Engineer (Battery Algorithms) at Gotion Inc. from September 2017 to August 2021. Ali'sresponsibilities at Gotion Inc. included developing and implementing estimations for state of charge (SOC), state of health (SOH), and state of power (SOP), as well as designing and conducting cell tests based on international standards. Furthermore, Ali has experience as a Graduate Research Assistant at the University of Connecticut, where they focused on optimal battery charging, capacity-fade modeling, and life assessment experiments on Li-ion batteries. Prior to their academic work, Ali worked as a Project Manager and Research Engineer at Niroo Research Institute from February 2004 to August 2011.

Ali Abdollahi completed their Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering (Electronics) at Ferdowsi University of Mashhad from 1995 to 1999. Ali then pursued a Master of Science (M.Sc.) in Electrical Engineering (Control) at the same university from 1999 to 2002. Later on, from 2011 to 2017, Ali enrolled at the University of Connecticut, where they obtained a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Electrical Engineering (Systems).

In terms of additional certifications, Ali obtained the certification of Certified Functional Safety Engineer from TÜV SÜD in January 2021. Ali also completed various training courses, including "Model-based Development of Embedded Software in Compliance with ISO26262 - Challenges and Effective Solutions" from Model Engineering Solutions (obtained year not specified), "Git Essential Training" from LinkedIn in February 2017, "Learn the Linux Command Line: The Basics" from LinkedIn in February 2017, and "R Statistics Essential Training" from LinkedIn in February 2017.