# Haider Ali: the plain edition of haiders.website

> 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).

## 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). 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.

## Experience

### KCL Robotics — humanoid

URL: https://haiders.website/experience/kcl-humanoid  
By Haider Ali · Head of Humanoid Development (Lead Engineer), KCL Robotics Society · September 2026 – present

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.

Head of Humanoid Development (Lead Engineer) at KCL Robotics Society. Designing the society's humanoid largely single-handedly and leading a five-person team through two builds.

I lead KCL Robotics' Humanoid Development Program. I designed the society's humanoid robot in-house, largely single-handedly, and lead the five-person team building it.

Key facts:
- Designed largely single-handedly
- Five-person team · two iterations
- CAD, electronics, compute, control
- In-house 3D-printed fabrication

#### What I designed

- Mechanical: the full CAD and the degree-of-freedom layout.
- Electronics and compute: every circuit and the compute architecture.
- Control: the control software, integrated around open-source actuators.

#### Leading the build

- Five-person team through fabrication and assembly, across two iterations.
- v1: a partly assembled testbed for testing and research.
- v2: a second robot, now being assembled for public-facing use.
- Budget and sourcing planned by me; parts printed in-house on the society's 3D printers.
- Alongside: SO-101 Studio, a society toolkit for training robot arms by imitation learning.

Stack: cad, degree-of-freedom planning, circuit design, compute architecture, control software, open-source actuators, 3d printing.

### Strand House — hacker house

URL: https://haiders.website/experience/strand-house  
By Haider Ali · Resident founder, Strand House · July – September 2026

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.

One of eight founders selected for Strand House, a two-month hacker house funded by Backed VC and Strand Ventures. Under 0.1% acceptance.

Over summer 2026 I was one of eight founders selected for Strand House, a two-month hacker house funded by Backed VC and Strand Ventures, building ClearZone full-time.

Key facts:
- 8 founders selected · <0.1%
- Backed VC × Strand Ventures
- Two months · summer 2026
- Building ClearZone full-time

#### What it is

- Two months, summer 2026: a live-in house for early-stage founders building full-time.
- Backed by: Backed VC and Strand Ventures, a student-run VC fund for university founders.
- Selective: 8 founders accepted, an acceptance rate under 0.1%.

#### What I did

- Built ClearZone full-time as Founder & CEO, alongside seven other founders.
- Same summer: the Turing BioSciences quantum and ML internship.

Links:
- [Strand Ventures](https://strandventures.vc)
- [Backed VC](https://www.backed.vc)
- [ClearZone](https://clearzone.tech)

### Turing BioSciences — quantum error correction

URL: https://haiders.website/experience/turing-biosciences  
By Haider Ali · Quantum & Machine Learning Research Intern, Turing BioSciences · June – September 2026

Haider Ali was a Quantum & ML Research Intern at Turing BioSciences in 2026: he benchmarked QEC decoders on real device data and built qecgen.

Quantum & ML Research Intern. Benchmarked quantum error-correction decoders on real device data, built QEC data pipelines as open-source qecgen, and curated biotech sequence data.

A remote internship reporting directly to the founder, across Turing BioSciences' quantum and biotech workstreams: benchmarking quantum error correction decoders on real device data, and curating sequence data for biotech ML.

Key facts:
- ML vs classical QEC decoders
- Real quantum-device data
- qecgen: 583 structural + 8 statistical tests
- Remote · reported to the founder

#### Quantum error correction

- Decoders: developed and benchmarked machine-learning decoders against established classical baselines.
- Real hardware: prepared quantum-computer data alongside simulation, to test decoders under realistic noise.
- Pipelines: Python generators of large-scale QEC datasets with known ground truth and engineered features.

#### qecgen (open source)

- Generator: Stim circuits → detection events → HDF5, Parquet, NPZ or JSONL.
- Reproducible: every file carries a manifest of seeds, versions and a content hash.
- Tooling: a CLI for generation, threshold sweeps, drift and scoring, with a FastAPI and React UI.
- qecgen-learn: a six-lesson crash course where every number comes from a real run.

#### Biotech data

- FASTA datasets curated and preprocessed for vaccine and drug development and mutation prediction.
- Provenance-first pipeline: public genomic data to model-ready data; it refuses to invent missing labels.

Stack: python, stim, pymatching, sinter, numpy, h5py, pyarrow, fastapi, react, typescript.

Links:
- [qecgen-learn](https://qecgen-learn.vercel.app)
- [qecgen repo](https://github.com/HaiderAli3D/qecgen)

### ClearZone — human purpose, connected technology

URL: https://haiders.website/experience/clearzone  
By Haider Ali · Founder & CEO, ClearZone Digital Ltd · March 2026 – present

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.

Founder & CEO of ClearZone Digital Ltd, building a network that connects the purpose of a place to how technology behaves in it. First product: FocusField, a focus zone you can set up anywhere. Angel-backed, CE-certified, patent-pending.

I founded ClearZone and lead it as Founder & CEO: a London startup connecting the purpose of a place to how technology behaves in it. Its first product is FocusField, a focus zone you can set up anywhere.

Key facts:
- Founder & CEO · angel-backed
- £15k SEIS round · raising pre-seed
- Strand House 2026 · 8 selected
- CE-certified · patent-pending
- Focus zone: 20 cm–10 m, offline

#### What it is

- FocusField: a 70 mm device plus a free app; set a focus zone from 20 cm to 10 m.
- How it works: chosen apps lock inside the zone, return outside it; calls, music, maps and sign-in stay on.
- Simple: a touchpad for music, flip it over for a short break, works offline, no subscription.
- Markets: consumers first; education is the first institutional market, with room-by-room rules across whole buildings.
- Longer term: one network across workplaces, government offices, healthcare and homes.

#### What I did

- Lead the founding team of three, with Tymur Pryvalov (CTO) and Nikita Pchelin (COO).
- Wrote all the software: secure device firmware, the mobile app, enterprise software and cloud infrastructure.
- Product design and CAD for three hardware products, from prototype to design for manufacture.
- Engineering: Kalman-filtered BLE distance, one-tap NFC pairing, custom ESP32 firmware with embedded security.
- Run the company: fundraising, investor relations, marketing, legal, compliance, certification and admin.

#### Traction

- £15k SEIS angel round raised; now leading the pre-seed raise.
- Strand House 2026: one of 8 selected (under 0.1%), funded by Backed VC and Strand Ventures.
- FocusField is consumer-ready, CE-certified and patent-pending, with a UK launch planned.

Stack: kotlin, jetpack compose, ble, nfc, esp32 firmware, embedded security, cad, design for manufacture, next.js.

Links:
- [clearzone.tech](https://clearzone.tech)
- [FocusField](https://shop.clearzone.tech/focusfield)
- [Our thesis](https://clearzone.tech/thesis)

### Algoverse — cognitive bias in LLMs

URL: https://haiders.website/experience/algoverse  
By Haider Ali · AI/ML Researcher, Algoverse AI Research · May 2025 – present

Haider Ali leads a team at Algoverse AI Research, on a full scholarship, investigating anchoring bias in LLMs applied to medical diagnosis.

AI/ML researcher at Algoverse on a full scholarship, leading a team investigating anchoring bias in LLMs applied to medical diagnosis.

I lead a scholarship-funded team at Algoverse AI Research studying anchoring bias in LLMs used for medical diagnosis, and developing a novel fine-tuning approach to reduce it.

Key facts:
- Full academic scholarship
- Research team lead
- Anchoring bias in medical LLMs
- Fine-tuning on patient narratives

#### The problem

- Anchoring bias: fixing on the first plausible diagnosis and no longer weighing alternatives, as human doctors also do.
- Approach: measure how often current models do it on diagnostic prompts, then fine-tune to reduce it.

#### What I did

- Lead the team on a full Algoverse academic scholarship, coordinating a cross-disciplinary collaboration.
- Designed the experiments and evaluation metrics.
- Fine-tuning data: netnographic patient data, meaning real patient narratives, not clinical summaries.
- Early experiments: GPT-4 prompted for structured, chain-of-thought diagnoses, scored against ground truth.

Stack: python, openai api, llm fine-tuning, chain-of-thought prompting, evaluation metrics.

Links:
- [algoverse repo](https://github.com/HaiderAli3D/Algoverse)

### FUTHARK — environment artist

URL: https://haiders.website/experience/futhark  
By Haider Ali · Environment Artist, FUTHARK Studios · October 2023 – January 2024

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).

Designed and built a fully realised 3D environment and lighting setup for a major FUTHARK Studios client project, on their brief and timeline.

Environment artist on a major FUTHARK Studios client project: I designed and built its full 3D environment and lighting, on the studio’s brief and timeline.

Key facts:
- Owned environment + lighting
- Major client project
- Delivered to a tight schedule

#### The brief

- Client work: a major FUTHARK Studios production.
- Constraints: the studio’s art direction, the production’s performance limits and a tight schedule.

#### What I did

- Owned the 3D environment design and lighting, end to end.
- Worked across the art, design and technical teams to keep the piece visually cohesive.
- Delivered to the production schedule.

Stack: blender, unreal engine 5, lighting, environment art.

### H3D Studios

URL: https://haiders.website/experience/h3d-studios  
By Haider Ali · Founder & Head, H3D Studios · August 2023 – April 2025

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.

Founded and grew a 3D graphics and simulation studio to $10K MRR: concerts, live shows and campaigns for clients including Snapdragon, Unity and the ATP.

I started H3D Studios as a teenager and grew it to $10K monthly recurring revenue, making high-end 3D for concerts, live shows and global campaigns.

Key facts:
- $10K monthly recurring revenue
- Snapdragon · Unity · the ATP
- Audiences in the hundreds of millions

#### What I did

- Ran it end to end, from creative direction to delivery.
- Built custom simulation pipelines and complex 3D environments, optimised for performance and fidelity across platforms.
- Built and led a small team across technical, creative and logistical roles.

#### Results

- Clients including Snapdragon, Unity and the ATP.
- Reach: audiences in the hundreds of millions.

Stack: unreal engine 5, blender, jangafx, adobe creative suite, gpu pipelines.

Links:
- [haider3d.com](https://www.haider3D.com)

### Universi Studios — DARKFLOW

URL: https://haiders.website/experience/darkflow  
By Haider Ali · Cosmic Simulation Specialist, Universi Studios · March 2023 – August 2025

Haider Ali built a real-time, physically accurate black hole for DARKFLOW, Universi Studios' Unreal Engine 5 space game, as cosmic simulation specialist.

Cosmic simulation specialist (part-time) on DARKFLOW, Universi Studios' Unreal Engine 5 space game. Built a highly accurate, real-time black hole simulation.

DARKFLOW is Universi Studios' space game in Unreal Engine 5. As its part-time cosmic simulation specialist, I built a highly accurate real-time black hole.

Key facts:
- Real-time Schwarzschild black hole
- Lensed accretion disk + photon ring
- Oversaw the game's space graphics

#### The black hole

- Physics: Schwarzschild metric, gravitationally lensed accretion disk and photon ring.
- Real time, running inside the engine.

#### What else I did

- Designed and built the game's astronomical simulations and environments.
- Oversaw the space graphics, keeping them true to real-world physics, optimised and fully integrated.
- Worked with the dev team on creative, real-time fixes for complex space-graphics problems.

Stack: unreal engine 5, hlsl shaders, numerical methods, gpu pipelines.

## Projects

### Quaternion hyperfractals

URL: https://haiders.website/projects/quaternion-hyperfractals  
By Haider Ali · 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.

Rendered 4D quaternion hyperfractals with custom spherical-coordinate algorithms: two weeks on 8 RTX 4090s and 4 Tesla T4s, sponsored by Fox Renderfarm.

How do you see a fractal in four dimensions? I designed algorithms that compute and render 4D quaternion hyperfractals, then animated their 4D cross-sections on a sponsored render farm.

Key facts:
- Mandelbrot → Mandelbulb → 4D
- 8× RTX 4090 + 4× Tesla T4
- Sponsored by Fox Renderfarm

#### The method

- Built up from the 2D Mandelbrot through 3D Mandelbulbs to 4D quaternions.
- Custom spherical-coordinate formulations, because Cartesian ones break down in four dimensions.

#### The render

- 4D cross-section animations, rendered continuously for two weeks.
- Hardware: 8 RTX 4090s and 4 Tesla T4s.
- Sponsored by Fox Renderfarm.

Stack: python, blender, cuda, voxel-to-mesh.

### qecgen — datasets for quantum decoders

URL: https://haiders.website/projects/qecgen  
By Haider Ali · August – September 2026

qecgen, by Haider Ali, is an open-source generator of reproducible surface-code quantum error correction datasets for benchmarking decoders.

An open-source generator of surface-code quantum error correction datasets for benchmarking decoders, each file reproducible from its manifest of seeds, versions and a content hash.

Decoders are only as trustworthy as the data they're scored on. qecgen generates surface-code datasets anyone can regenerate exactly. It grew out of my research internship at Turing BioSciences.

Key facts:
- Stim + PyMatching pipeline
- Content-hashed, reproducible manifests
- 583 structural + 8 statistical tests
- Six-lesson course on top

#### How it works

- Pipeline: Stim circuits → detection events → detector error model → sparse check and logical matrices.
- Exports HDF5, Parquet, NPZ, JSONL or CSV, mapping detection events to logical flips.
- Validated, with a manifest on every dataset: seeds, pinned library versions, the git commit and a content hash.
- Realistic noise: per-qubit and per-operation rates, drift, leakage and burst errors.

#### Tooling

- Typer CLI: generation, multi-environment runs, drift, scoring and validation.
- Threshold sweeps with crossing and exponential-suppression fits.
- FastAPI + React UI: live lattice preview with a cost estimate, threshold charts, a dataset registry.
- qecgen-learn: a six-lesson course that uses only numbers computed from real runs.

Stack: python, stim, pymatching, sinter, numpy, h5py, pyarrow, typer, fastapi, react.

Links:
- [GitHub](https://github.com/HaiderAli3D/qecgen)
- [qecgen-learn](https://qecgen-learn.vercel.app)

### Otto — an assistant that rings

URL: https://haiders.website/projects/otto  
By Haider Ali · June – August 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.

A self-hosted AI assistant on WhatsApp whose alarms really ring on your phone. It chases reminders until done and works out when to leave.

Otto is an AI assistant you message on WhatsApp. The server does the reasoning; a thin Android app makes alarms ring over the lockscreen, through Doze and after a reboot.

Key facts:
- OpenAI agent, 27 tools
- HMAC-signed pushes, fail-safe sync
- 149 commits, ~80 test files

#### What it does

- Alarms that ring on your phone, set by message.
- Reminders on twelve escalation ladders that chase you until they're done.
- Leave-by alarms priced with live traffic.
- Also: Calendar and Tasks, transcribed voice notes and quiet hours.

#### How it's built

- Server: a WhatsApp webhook, an OpenAI agent with 27 tools, SQLite and a scheduler.
- The app decides nothing: it arms alarms from HMAC-signed push messages.
- Fail-safe sync: Room is the source of truth, so a bad server response can't silently delete an alarm.

Stack: kotlin, jetpack compose, room, fcm, typescript, fastify, sqlite, openai api, whatsapp cloud api.

Links:
- [otto repo](https://github.com/HaiderAli3D/Otto)

### KCL Maths

URL: https://haiders.website/projects/kclmaths  
By Haider Ali · April 2026 – present

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.

An interactive learning platform for every first-year KCL AI and CS module: the main revision resource for over 70% of the Informatics cohort, and free.

I built and launched kclmaths.com, a free, interactive learning platform for every first-year KCL AI & Computer Science module. It began as a companion to the first-year AI maths module.

Key facts:
- Used by >70% of the cohort
- £200 in voluntary donations
- Six first-year modules
- 300+ commits

#### Results

- Over 70% of the Informatics cohort used it as their main revision resource in exam season.
- £200 in voluntary donations, though it is completely free.

#### What's on it

- Six modules: maths, web, data structures, software engineering, databases and Java.
- Lessons, weekly quizzes and mock exams, plus visual demos.
- In-browser SQL playground.

#### How it's built

- Stack: React, Three.js and KaTeX.
- Guard tests for the CSP, theme tokens and reduced motion; over 300 commits.

Stack: react, typescript, vite, three.js, katex, sql.js, vitest, vercel.

Links:
- [kclmaths.com](https://kclmaths.com)

### PantryPal

URL: https://haiders.website/projects/pantrypal  
By Haider Ali · 2025 – present

PantryPal, by Haider Ali, is an AI-powered recipe app built end to end: Flutter, a serverless TypeScript backend on Google Cloud, and subscriptions.

A cross-platform, AI-powered mobile recipe app built end to end: Flutter, a serverless TypeScript backend on Google Cloud, subscriptions and API cost management.

PantryPal generates recipes from what's actually in your kitchen. Built solo, end to end: a Flutter app, a serverless TypeScript backend on Google Cloud, subscriptions.

Key facts:
- Solo, end to end
- Flutter + serverless Google Cloud
- Prepared for Google Play

#### Features

- Recipe generation from your pantry, with diet, skill and servings preferences.
- Kitchen mode: step-by-step cooking with timers and live servings rescaling.
- Grocery list synced with the pantry; saved recipes, an inspiration feed, a cooking dictionary.

#### How it's built

- App: Flutter with Riverpod; accounts on Firebase Auth, Firestore security rules.
- AI: Cloud Functions in TypeScript calling GPT-4o.
- API costs: RevenueCat subscription tiers, with usage enforced server-side.
- Status: prepared for Google Play release.

Stack: flutter, dart, riverpod, firebase, cloud functions, typescript, gpt-4o, revenuecat.

### WiFi Vision

URL: https://haiders.website/projects/wifi-vision  
By Haider Ali · June – August 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.

Tracks several people moving through a room from WiFi signals alone, using a mesh of ESP32 nodes. No cameras, no wearables.

WiFi Vision tracks several people moving through a room from WiFi signals alone: no cameras, no wearables. In a six-node simulation it tracks two walkers to about 0.2 m.

Key facts:
- Device-free, multi-person tracking
- ~0.2 m RMSE in simulation
- 124 commits

#### How it works

- Sense: ESP-IDF firmware on every ESP32 node captures WiFi channel state information.
- Stream: the nodes send it over ESP-NOW to a TypeScript host.
- Locate: per-link features feed radio tomographic imaging, which solves for position.
- Track: a multi-person Kalman tracker drives live 2D and 3D dashboards.

#### Details

- Honest confidence: when it can't separate people, it says “1+?”.
- One firmware image for every node; a web flasher sets up the whole fleet.
- Replay mode needs no hardware.

Stack: c / esp-idf, esp32-c6, esp-now, typescript, next.js, websocket, three.js.

### SO-101 Studio

URL: https://haiders.website/projects/so-101-studio  
By Haider Ali · September 2026 – present

SO-101 Studio, Haider Ali's toolkit for KCL Robotics, calibrates, teleoperates, records, trains and deploys imitation-learning policies for the SO-101 arm.

KCL Robotics' toolkit for the SO-101 robot arm: calibrate, teleoperate, record, train and deploy imitation-learning policies from one CLI or a 3D browser studio.

A toolkit I built for KCL Robotics to train the SO-101 robot arm by imitation learning: calibrate, teleoperate, record, train and deploy, from one CLI or a 3D browser studio.

Key facts:
- Full LeRobot loop
- CLI + 3D browser studio
- MuJoCo digital twin
- 120 commits

#### The CLI

- Config-driven so101 CLI wrapping Hugging Face LeRobot on native Windows.
- Transparent: prints every LeRobot command before running it.
- Doctor check for CUDA, cameras, ports and calibration.
- Contract tests pass each command through LeRobot's own parser, so upstream renames fail CI, not the robot.

#### The studio

- 3D viewport: React and Three.js, with forward kinematics from the URDF.
- Safe access: LAN by QR code, a pilot PIN and an e-stop.
- Training: ACT, Diffusion and SmolVLA policies, a bimanual mode and a live MuJoCo digital twin.

Stack: python, lerobot, pytorch, mujoco, react, three.js, zustand, playwright.

### Pose-driven robot arm

URL: https://haiders.website/projects/esp32-robot-arm  
By Haider Ali · September 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.

A four-servo ESP32-C5 arm you steer with your own arm and hand through a webcam, or from a keyboard console built for demos.

A four-servo robot arm on custom ESP32-C5 firmware that follows your own arm and hand through a webcam, or takes commands from a keyboard demo console.

Key facts:
- Custom ESP32-C5 firmware
- Pose + hand → four joints
- Hardware-free preview mode
- Python + C++ tests

#### Control

- MediaPipe pose and hand tracking map the operator to the joints.
- Left hand turns the base.
- Right elbow, wrist and pinch drive the elbow, wrist and claw, with smoothing.
- Firmware: four servos over a shared serial protocol.

#### Demo console

- Articulated schematic with angle dials and command history.
- Preview mode runs with no hardware.
- Tested in Python and in C++.

Stack: python, mediapipe, opencv, tkinter, c++ / arduino, esp32-c5.

Links:
- [robot-arm-small repo](https://github.com/HaiderAli3D/robot-arm-small)

### Minecraft in UE5

URL: https://haiders.website/projects/minecraft-ue5  
By Haider Ali · 2024

Haider Ali recreated Minecraft in Unreal Engine 5 with C++, extending redstone with improved electrical systems, logic gates and automation.

Recreated Minecraft in Unreal Engine 5 with C++, extending redstone with improved electrical systems, logic gates and automation.

Minecraft's core loop, rebuilt in Unreal Engine 5 in C++, with the real focus on redstone.

Key facts:
- Minecraft recreated in UE5 + C++
- Extended redstone
- Logic gates + automation

#### Why redstone

- The gap: vanilla redstone is an under-specified electrical simulation.
- The goal: bigger in-game engineering.

#### What I added

- Improved electrical systems.
- Proper logic gates and automation.

Stack: unreal engine 5, c++, voxel rendering.

### catline

URL: https://haiders.website/projects/catline  
By Haider Ali · August 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.

A zero-dependency status line for Claude Code: context, session and weekly usage meters beside an animated ASCII cat that panics as the context window fills.

A zero-dependency status line for Claude Code: usage meters beside an animated ASCII cat that panics as the context window fills.

Key facts:
- Zero dependencies
- 13 idle behaviours, 4 moods
- 3 usage meters

#### The meters

- Three meters: context, session and weekly usage.
- Demo mode runs without touching your config.

#### The cat

- Thirteen idle behaviours and four moods, driven by whichever meter is fullest.
- Temperament picked by each session's id.
- Its bowl fills as the session's cost rises.

Stack: javascript, node.js.

Links:
- [catline repo](https://github.com/HaiderAli3D/catline)

### UniCircle

URL: https://haiders.website/projects/unicircle  
By Haider Ali · 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.

An MVP events board for London university societies. Verified reps post events; students filter by university, society, date and category, no account needed.

An MVP events board for London university societies: verified reps post events, and students filter by university, society, date and category, no account needed.

Key facts:
- Full-stack MVP
- Auth re-checked in every action
- Shareable URL filters

#### Engineering

- Stack: Next.js Server Actions on Neon Postgres.
- Security: ownership re-checked in every server action, not just in the UI.
- Uploads: cover images go straight from the browser to Vercel Blob through signed tokens.

#### Design

- Shareable filters: they live in the URL.
- Hand-drawn look with rough.js, seeded per element so it never flickers.

Stack: next.js, react, typescript, drizzle, neon postgres, auth.js, vercel blob, rough.js.

### KCL Robotics — competitions

URL: https://haiders.website/projects/mars-rover  
By Haider Ali · 2025 – present

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.

Head of Competitions at KCL Robotics: UKSEDS Mars Rover, Unibots UK and RoboWars. Leading around ten in the UKSEDS Olympus Rover Trials.

As Head of Competitions at KCL Robotics I run the society's competition teams, and I built a motion-capture pipeline to simulate our Mars rover's robotic arm.

Key facts:
- Head of Competitions
- UKSEDS · Unibots UK · RoboWars
- Leads ~10 in Olympus Rover Trials
- MediaPipe → Blender arm mocap

#### Competitions

- Oversee the society's teams for the UKSEDS Mars Rover challenge, Unibots UK and RoboWars.
- Lead a team of around ten in the UKSEDS Olympus Rover Trials.

#### Arm motion capture

- Tracking: MediaPipe follows the operator's elbow, wrist and fingers.
- Streaming: the angles are smoothed and sent over UDP into Blender.
- Digital twin: they drive a rigged model of the arm, live.

Stack: python, mediapipe, opencv, blender (bpy), udp.

Links:
- [arm mocap repo](https://github.com/HaiderAli3D/KCL-ORT-B26)

### APOLLO — A-Level CS tutor

URL: https://haiders.website/projects/apollo-ai  
By Haider Ali · 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.

An AI tutor mapped to the full OCR A-Level Computer Science specification, with topic-by-topic learning modes, progress tracking and an admin area for resources.

APOLLO is an AI tutor mapped topic by topic to the full OCR A-Level Computer Science specification.

Key facts:
- Full OCR A-Level CS spec
- Learning modes + progress tracking
- Student + admin areas

#### Features

- Several learning modes for each topic.
- Streaming chat with the tutor.
- Student progress pages.
- Admin dashboard for uploading resources.

#### How it grew

- Started as a command-line tutor on the Claude API.
- Became a Flask web app with SQLite.

Stack: python, flask, anthropic api, sqlite, javascript.

### Othello — three implementations

URL: https://haiders.website/projects/othello  
By Haider Ali · 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.

The same game built three times: Python with Tkinter, Python with PyGame, and C++ with Raylib. Configurable 4×4 to 12×12 board.

The same game built three times, to compare languages and rendering stacks side by side.

Key facts:
- Tkinter, PyGame, C++ Raylib
- 4×4 to 12×12 board
- Particle victory screen

#### Three builds

- Tkinter: pure Python standard library.
- PyGame: immediate-mode 2D.
- Raylib: in C++.

#### Shared by all three

- Configurable board, 4×4 to 12×12.
- Live scores and invalid-move detection.

Stack: python, tkinter, pygame, c++, raylib.

Links:
- [othello repo](https://github.com/HaiderAli3D/Othello-)

### JARVIS AI assistant

URL: https://haiders.website/projects/jarvis-ai  
By Haider Ali · 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.

A multimodal, Iron-Man-style desktop voice assistant: hot-word speech, screen and webcam vision, web search and Spotify control. Solo Python build.

An Iron-Man-style desktop voice assistant that can see your screen or webcam, search the web and run your music. A solo Python build.

Key facts:
- Voice, screen, camera, web, music
- Solo Python build

#### Listening

- Whisper voice loop with hot words.
- Fuzzy corrections for a misheard “Jarvis”.
- Spoken replies, backed by the OpenAI Assistants API.

#### What it can do

- Vision: looks at your screen or through the webcam and answers questions about what it sees.
- Search the web and images, and check the weather.
- Control the volume and Spotify.

Stack: python, openai assistants api, whisper, opencv, spotify api.

### Hand tracking

URL: https://haiders.website/projects/hand-tracking  
By Haider Ali · 2024 – 2026

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.

A line of MediaPipe hand-tracking builds: a two-handed gesture mouse, Fruit Ninja and Pong by hand, a phone-use detector, and handfx, a live glitch-art study.

A line of MediaPipe hand-tracking builds, from a gesture mouse and hand-played games to a phone-use detector and a live glitch-art study.

Key facts:
- Two-handed gesture mouse
- Hand-played Fruit Ninja + Pong
- Phone Screamer: phone-use detector
- handfx: 30 fps glitch art

#### The builds

- Gesture mouse: right-hand pinches click and scroll; left-hand gestures fire shortcuts.
- Reused: its helper library powers hand-played Pong, Fruit Ninja and the rover-arm mocap.
- Phone Screamer: spots a phone in your hands and loudly tells you to put it down, an early ClearZone idea.

#### handfx

- Live glitch art: rebuilds a reference clip's machine-vision look from a webcam at 30 fps.
- How: a hand silhouette from landmarks, plus a Markov sequencer matching the clip's measured rhythm across four looks.
- Android port under way.

Stack: python, mediapipe, opencv, pygame, kotlin, glsl.

Links:
- [handfx repo](https://github.com/HaiderAli3D/handfx)
- [hand-tracker repo](https://github.com/HaiderAli3D/Hand-Tracker)
- [phone screamer](https://github.com/HaiderAli3D/Phone-Screamer)
- [fruit ninja variant](https://github.com/HaiderAli3D/fruit-ninja-hand-game)
- [pong variant](https://github.com/HaiderAli3D/Hand-Tracking-Pong-Game)

### College robotics team

URL: https://haiders.website/projects/college-robotics  
By Haider Ali · 2022 – 2023

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.

Founded and led my college's robotics team: budget, equipment, labs and competitions, and the full robot build. 2nd place at a VEX Robotics regional tournament.

I founded my college's robotics team, ran it, and led the design and build of our robot, which placed 2nd at a VEX Robotics regional tournament.

Key facts:
- Founder & lead engineer
- VEX Robotics regional: 2nd
- Mechanical, electronics, embedded

#### Running the team

- Founded it and recruited the team.
- Managed the budget, equipment, labs and competitions.

#### The robot

- Led the full design and build, from mechanical prototyping to electronics and embedded systems.
- Result: 2nd place at a VEX Robotics regional tournament.

Stack: mechanical design, electronics, embedded systems.

## 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.

- Email: contact@haiders.website
- Haider Ali on LinkedIn (preferred): linkedin.com/in/haider3d: https://www.linkedin.com/in/haider3d/
- Haider Ali on GitHub: github.com/HaiderAli3D: https://github.com/HaiderAli3D
- Previous portfolio: haider3d.com: https://www.haider3D.com
- ClearZone, his company: clearzone.tech: https://clearzone.tech
- CV (PDF): https://haiders.website/cv.pdf?v=f63c48aa18