Ph.D. — 1987 — Civil Engineering — U of A, Tucson, AZ, USA
M.Eng. — 1981 — Soil Engineering — AIT, Bangkok, Thailand
Dr. Ali is a Transportation Engineer with the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans). He has several years of teaching, research and industrial experience. Besides working on several Geotechnical projects in the USA, Dr. Ali worked on several projects in South East Asia in the areas of soil improvement by vertical drains, management of construction project, analysis and design of deep foundation, instrumentation and monitoring of highway embankment on soft clay, and many others. He has over 20 years of Teaching, research and professional experience.
Research Interests
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Application of Geostatistics to Geotechnical/Geological Engineering
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Probability and Statistics in Soil Engineering
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Management of Construction Project
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Embankments on Soft Clay
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Retaining Structures
Professional Registration
Registered Professional Engineer (Civil) in the States of Arizona and California.
Partial List of Dr. Ali’s Publications
Ali, M.M., E.A. Nowatzki, D.E. Myers, (1990), “Probabilistic Analysis of Collapsing Soil by Indicator Kriging”. International Journal of Mathematical Geology, Vol. 22, No. 1, January, pp. 15-38.
Ali, M.M., (1990), “Statistical Evaluation of Bangkok Clay Shear Strength Parameters”, Geotechnical Testing Journal, ASTM, GTJODJ Vol. 13, No. #, September, pp. 250-256.
Ali, M.M., E.A. Nowatzki, D.E. Myers, (1989), “Geostatistical Techniques to Estimate Collapse-related Soil Parameters”, Proc. 25th symposium on Engineering Geology and Geotechnical Engineering, Reno, Nevada, March, pp. 289-296.
Nowatzki, E.A., M.M. Ali, D.E. Myers, (1989), “A Use of Geostatistics to Predict the Occurrence of Collapsing Soil”, Proc. F.E. Congress, ASCE, Vol. 1, June, pp. 176-190.
Ali, M.M., E.A. Nowatzki, D.E. Myers, (1989), “Geostatistical Methods to Predict Collapsing Soil”, Proc. XII ICSMFE, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Vol. VII, No.2, August, pp. 567-570.
