Dr. Tarig A. Ali received his B.Sc. degree (honors) in Civil Engineering in 1993 and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the Ohio State University - Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Geodetic Science in 1999 and 2003, respectively. He has been an assistant professor with the Department of Technology and Geomatics at East Tennessee State University (ETSU) since August of 2003 until he joined UCF in August of 2006.

Dr. Ali is recipient of the 2006 ESRI Award for Best Scientific Paper in GIS-3rd Place, the 2005 Faculty Excellence Award by East Tennessee State University, the 2004 Murrough O’Brien Educational Award by the American Shore & Beach Preservation Association, and the 2003 Duane C. Brown Jr. Award by the Ohio State University.

His recent research includes Study of the Spatio-temporal Variation of the Level of the Atmospheric Water Vapor using ground-based GPS, Spatial Modeling and Analysis of the Gray Fossils, Wide-Area GPS Networks, and GIS Uncertainty Modeling. Dr Ali is a member of the Cartography and Geographic Information Society, the American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, the International Water Resources Association, Florida Surveying and Mapping Society, and the American Shore & Beach Preservation Association. He is also a member of the Review Board of the International Journal of Modern Engineering, and reviewer for the ASCE Surveying Engineering and Engineering Technology Journals.