Dr. Ali Raz is an Assistant Professor at George Mason University Systems Engineering and Operations Research department and an Assistant Director of Intelligent Systems and Integration at the C5I Center. Dr. Raz research and teaching interests are in understanding collaborative autonomy and developing Systems Engineering methodologies for integrating autonomous aerospace systems. Raz's research brings a Systems Engineering perspective, particularly inspired by Digital Engineering, Model-based Systems Engineering, Sensor Fusion and Artificial Intelligence for the design and analysis of complex adaptive systems including system of systems. He has developed mathematical and statistical approaches for analytical analysis of complex aerospace systems that pairs high-fidelity and physics-based models with systems engineering models.

He was a United States Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) Summer Faculty Fellow at the Air Force Research Labs in Rome, NY and has worked with US Naval Postgraduate School, John Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (JHU-APL), Purdue University School of Aeronautics and Astronautics, the United States Missile Defense Agency, and Honeywell Aerospace.

He holds a BSc. and MSc. in Electrical Engineering from Iowa State University, Ames, IA USA and a Ph.D. in Aeronautics and Astronautics from Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA. He is the chair of the International Council of Systems Engineering (INCOSE) AI Working Group, and the chair of Information Command and Control Systems (IC2S) at the American Institute for Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA). He is also a senior member of the AIAA and IEEE.