Dr. Raian Ali joined HBKU as a Professor in Information and Computing Technology. His research has an inter-disciplinary nature, with a focus on the inter-relation between technology and human requirements and behavior. His work on Digital Addiction and Digital Wellbeing has been widely featured by mainstream media, including the BBC, Telegraph, Huffington Post, and La Stampa. He gives speeches and provides consultancy on the topic both nationally and internationally. 

Dr. Ali has received the Marie Curie CIG grant and other grants from prestigious sponsors in the UK and Europe for work in areas he has pioneered, e.g., software social adaptation and designing to combat digital addiction. He sits on the editorial board and organizing and program committees of leading international conferences and journals in the field of information systems, software engineering, and behavioral and social informatics. He has published over 120 articles.