He holds Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in industrial design from Istanbul Technical University (ITU). He also serves as the co-director of graduate studies for DTS MSc and PhD programs at OzU. Ali completed his PhD in sociology at Washington State University (WSU) in 2013. His research interests include longitudinal/hierarchical data analysis, social network analysis, science and technology studies, sociology of education, sociology of design, and critical studies of interdisciplinarity.