Haider Ali
I'm Haider Ali, an AI & Computer Science student at King's College London and Founder & CEO of ClearZone, an angel-backed startup building technology that helps people focus. I lead KCL Robotics' humanoid program, research bias in medical LLMs at Algoverse, and built quantum error-correction decoders at Turing BioSciences.
Quick facts
- Who is Haider Ali?
- Haider Ali is a London-based engineer and founder: Founder & CEO of ClearZone, an angel-backed startup building technology that helps people focus, and an AI & Computer Science student at King’s College London (2025–2028, expected).
- What is ClearZone?
- ClearZone (ClearZone Digital Ltd) is a London startup founded and led by Haider Ali as Founder & CEO, building a network that connects the purpose of a place to how technology behaves in it. Its first product, FocusField, creates an adjustable focus zone (about 20 cm to 10 m) where chosen apps lock automatically on paired phones; it is CE-certified and patent-pending, ClearZone is angel-backed, and education is its first institutional market.
- What does Haider Ali research?
- At Algoverse AI Research he leads a team investigating anchoring bias in LLMs applied to medical diagnosis. As a Quantum & Machine Learning Research Intern at Turing BioSciences (June–September 2026) he benchmarked quantum error-correction decoders and built qecgen.
- What does he do at KCL Robotics?
- Haider Ali is Head of Humanoid Development (Lead Engineer) at the KCL Robotics Society, where he designed the society’s humanoid robot and leads a five-person team through two builds. He is also its Head of Competitions.
- Where does Haider Ali study?
- King’s College London, where he reads BSc Artificial Intelligence & Computer Science (2025–2028, expected).
- What has he won?
- The HackLondon 2026 Hardware Track (with his team), 1st place in Fox Renderfarm’s FGT3D “The Ruins” Challenge, the BadNormals “World Inside a Glass” competition, 2nd place at a VEX Robotics regional tournament, and a full Algoverse academic scholarship.
- How can I contact Haider Ali?
- Email contact@haiders.website, or message him on LinkedIn (linkedin.com/in/haider3d), which he prefers.
About
I'm an engineer and founder who learns by building, and I've been building software, hardware and 3D since starting a 3D studio as a teenager: H3D Studios, a graphics and simulation studio I grew to $10K MRR with clients including Snapdragon, Unity and the ATP. That path led to King's College London, where I read AI & Computer Science (2025–2028, expected).
I'm Founder & CEO of ClearZone, an angel-backed startup connecting the purpose of a physical space to how technology behaves inside it. I raised a £15k SEIS round, wrote all of the software and took FocusField to a consumer-ready, CE-certified, patent-pending device, and I was one of eight selected for Strand House. I also lead KCL Robotics' humanoid program and its competition teams, lead an LLM bias research team at Algoverse, and built quantum error-correction decoders at Turing BioSciences over summer 2026.
I'm driven by hard problems across software, hardware and AI, and by building technology that helps people focus in an increasingly distracted world. I work across the stack, from CAD and circuits to firmware, apps, cloud and research, and I'm happiest when a project demands all of them at once.
Education
BSc Artificial Intelligence & Computer Science, King’s College London 2025 – 2028 (expected) · London
- Relevant coursework: Artificial Intelligence, Programming (Java), Linear Algebra, Calculus, Statistics, Logic.
- A-Levels: Mathematics (A*), Computer Science (A*), Further Mathematics (A), Physics (A)
- Awarded an honorary academic scholarship by my college for top performance.
Disciplines
- hardware & product
- ai & ml
- robotics
- quantum & mathematics
- 3d & simulation
- full-stack software
- entrepreneurship
- Position
- Founder & CEO, ClearZone Digital Ltd
- Studying
- BSc AI & CS · King’s College London · 2025–28
- Researching
- LLM anchoring bias · Algoverse
- Now
- ClearZone pre-seed · KCL humanoid
- Next
- Humanoid v2, built for the public
- Open to
- roles · research · collaborations
Experience
KCL Robotics — humanoid
Head of Humanoid Development (Lead Engineer), KCL Robotics Society ·
Haider Ali is Head of Humanoid Development at the KCL Robotics Society. He designed its humanoid robot and leads a five-person team through two builds.
Strand House — hacker house
Resident founder, Strand House ·
Haider Ali was one of eight founders selected for Strand House, a two-month summer 2026 hacker house funded by Backed VC and Strand Ventures.
Turing BioSciences — quantum error correction
Quantum & Machine Learning Research Intern, Turing BioSciences ·
Haider Ali was a Quantum & ML Research Intern at Turing BioSciences in 2026: he benchmarked QEC decoders on real device data and built qecgen.
ClearZone — human purpose, connected technology
Founder & CEO, ClearZone Digital Ltd ·
Haider Ali is Founder & CEO of ClearZone, a London startup connecting the purpose of a place to how technology behaves. Its first product is FocusField.
Algoverse — cognitive bias in LLMs
AI/ML Researcher, Algoverse AI Research ·
Haider Ali leads a team at Algoverse AI Research, on a full scholarship, investigating anchoring bias in LLMs applied to medical diagnosis.
FUTHARK — environment artist
Environment Artist, FUTHARK Studios ·
Haider Ali designed and built the 3D environment and lighting for a major FUTHARK Studios client project as its environment artist (Oct 2023–Jan 2024).
H3D Studios
Founder & Head, H3D Studios ·
Haider Ali founded H3D Studios, a 3D graphics and simulation studio, and grew it to $10K MRR with clients including Snapdragon, Unity and the ATP.
Universi Studios — DARKFLOW
Cosmic Simulation Specialist, Universi Studios ·
Haider Ali built a real-time, physically accurate black hole for DARKFLOW, Universi Studios' Unreal Engine 5 space game, as cosmic simulation specialist.
Projects
Quaternion hyperfractals
2024 ·
Haider Ali's algorithms to compute and render 4D quaternion hyperfractals, rendered over two weeks on 8 RTX 4090s and sponsored by Fox Renderfarm.
qecgen — datasets for quantum decoders
Aug–Sep 2026 ·
qecgen, by Haider Ali, is an open-source generator of reproducible surface-code quantum error correction datasets for benchmarking decoders.
Otto — an assistant that rings
Jun–Aug 2026 ·
Otto, by Haider Ali, is a self-hosted AI assistant on WhatsApp whose alarms really ring on your phone, run by an OpenAI agent with 27 tools.
KCL Maths
Apr 2026 → ·
KCL Maths, built by Haider Ali, is a free learning platform for every first-year KCL AI & CS module, used by over 70% of the Informatics cohort.
PantryPal
2025 → ·
PantryPal, by Haider Ali, is an AI-powered recipe app built end to end: Flutter, a serverless TypeScript backend on Google Cloud, and subscriptions.
WiFi Vision
Jun–Aug 2026 ·
WiFi Vision, by Haider Ali, tracks several people moving through a room from WiFi signals alone, using a mesh of ESP32 nodes. No cameras, no wearables.
SO-101 Studio
Sep 2026 ·
SO-101 Studio, Haider Ali's toolkit for KCL Robotics, calibrates, teleoperates, records, trains and deploys imitation-learning policies for the SO-101 arm.
Minecraft in UE5
2024 ·
Haider Ali recreated Minecraft in Unreal Engine 5 with C++, extending redstone with improved electrical systems, logic gates and automation.
Squishless
Oct 2026 ·
Squishless, by Haider Ali, resizes photos with seam carving so people and buildings keep their shape: a Go engine compiled to WebAssembly, in the browser.
Pose-driven robot arm
Sep 2026 ·
A four-servo ESP32-C5 robot arm built by Haider Ali that you steer with your own arm and hand through a webcam, or from a keyboard demo console.
catline
Aug 2026 ·
catline, by Haider Ali, is a zero-dependency status line for Claude Code: usage meters beside an ASCII cat that panics as the context window fills.
UniCircle
May 2026 ·
UniCircle, by Haider Ali, is an MVP events board for London university societies: verified reps post events, students filter them, no account needed.
KCL Robotics — competitions
2025 → ·
Haider Ali is Head of Competitions at KCL Robotics (UKSEDS Mars Rover, Unibots UK, RoboWars) and leads around ten in the UKSEDS Olympus Rover Trials.
APOLLO — A-Level CS tutor
2025 ·
APOLLO, by Haider Ali, is an AI tutor mapped to the full OCR A-Level Computer Science specification, with learning modes and progress tracking.
Othello — three implementations
2025 ·
Haider Ali built Othello three times, in Python with Tkinter, Python with PyGame and C++ with Raylib, on a configurable 4×4 to 12×12 board.
JARVIS AI assistant
2024 ·
JARVIS, by Haider Ali, is a multimodal desktop voice assistant in Python: hot-word speech, screen and webcam vision, web search and Spotify control.
Hand tracking
2024–26 ·
Haider Ali's MediaPipe hand-tracking builds: a two-handed gesture mouse, hand-played Fruit Ninja and Pong, a phone-use detector and the handfx study.
College robotics team
2022–23 ·
Haider Ali founded and led his college's robotics team, from budget and labs to the full robot build, and placed 2nd at a VEX Robotics regional tournament.
Skills
software
- python
- c / c++
- java
- typescript · javascript
- dart · flutter
- react · node.js
- sql · firebase
- google cloud · git
ai & data
- ml dataset curation
- data preprocessing
- llm fine-tuning
- model evaluation
- quantum error correction
- bioinformatics data
- statistical inference
- llm api integration
hardware & robotics
- embedded firmware
- embedded security
- circuit design
- cad · product design
- design for manufacture
- rapid prototyping
- robot control software
- humanoid · dof planning
leadership & business
- founder · ceo
- team leadership
- fundraising
- investor relations
- product management
- marketing
- legal · compliance
- ce certification
graphics & simulation
- unreal engine 5
- blender
- jangafx
- adobe creative suite
- simulation pipelines
mathematics
- linear algebra
- calculus
- statistics
- discrete mathematics
- numerical methods
- optimisation
Awards
- HackLondon 2026 — Hardware Track Winner — Won with my team · over £1,000 in prizes
- Algoverse Academic Scholarship — Full · AI/ML research
- Fox Renderfarm FGT3D "The Ruins" Challenge — 1st place — One-year sponsorship · $2,000 in prizes
- BadNormals "World Inside a Glass" Competition — Winner — 29/30 from a panel of three judges
- VEX Robotics Regional Tournament — 2nd place — With the team I founded at college
- College Honorary Scholarship — Top academic performance
- A-Levels: A* A* A A — Maths · CS · F. Maths · Physics
Contact
I'm open to roles, research collaborations, and conversations with founders and investors. The fastest way to reach me is LinkedIn — email also works.