Hesham H. Ali is a Professor of Computer Science and the director of the University of Nebraska Omaha (UNO) Bioinformatics Core Facility. He is also a research collaborator at Mayo Clinic. He served as the Lee and Wilma Seemann Distinguished Dean of the College of Information Science and Technology at UNO between 2006 and 2021. He has published numerous articles in various IT areas, including scheduling, distributed systems, data analytics, wireless networks, and Bioinformatics. He has published two books in scheduling and graph algorithms, and several book chapters in Bioinformatics. He has been serving as the PI or Co-PI of several projects funded by NSF, NIH and numerous state and regional initiatives in the areas of data analytics, wireless networks, Bioinformatics, and next generation healthcare. He has also been leading a Bioinformatics Research Group for over 20 years that focuses on developing innovative computational approaches to model complex biomedical systems and analyze big bioinformatics data using AI tools and network science algorithms. The research group is currently developing several next generation AI-rich data analytics tools for analyzing large heterogeneous biological and health data associated with various biomedical research areas, particularly projects associated with microbiome studies, early childhood development and aging research. He has led several local and national outreach initiatives, including Women in IT initiatives, IT education and training programs, and IT summer internship camps.
