# 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).

Haider Ali is a London-based founder and engineer: Founder & CEO of ClearZone, KCL Robotics humanoid lead, AI researcher, and AI & CS student at King’s. This is his personal site, haiders.website; with JavaScript it runs as AliOS, an operating system in the browser, and every page also has a plain HTML edition. Contact: contact@haiders.website (LinkedIn preferred: https://www.linkedin.com/in/haider3d/).

## 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.

## Pages

- [About Haider Ali](https://haiders.website/about): About Haider Ali: London-based Founder & CEO of ClearZone, AI & Computer Science student at King’s College London, robotics lead and AI/ML researcher.
- [Experience](https://haiders.website/experience): Haider Ali’s experience: Founder & CEO of ClearZone, KCL Robotics humanoid lead, Algoverse AI research, Turing BioSciences, H3D Studios and more.
- [Projects](https://haiders.website/projects): Side projects by Haider Ali: qecgen quantum datasets, KCL Maths (used by over 70% of KCL Informatics), Otto, WiFi Vision, 4D hyperfractals and more.
- [Skills](https://haiders.website/skills): Haider Ali’s skills across software, AI & data, hardware & robotics, leadership, graphics & simulation and mathematics, from Python to CAD.
- [Awards](https://haiders.website/awards): Haider Ali’s awards: HackLondon 2026 Hardware Track winner, Fox Renderfarm 1st place, BadNormals winner, VEX 2nd place and an Algoverse scholarship.
- [Contact Haider Ali](https://haiders.website/contact): Contact Haider Ali: email contact@haiders.website or LinkedIn (preferred). Open to roles, research collaborations, founders and investors.
- [CV (PDF)](https://haiders.website/cv.pdf?v=f63c48aa18): Haider Ali’s CV.

## Experience

- [KCL Robotics Society: Head of Humanoid Development (Lead Engineer) (September 2026 – present)](https://haiders.website/experience/kcl-humanoid): 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: Resident founder (July – September 2026)](https://haiders.website/experience/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 & Machine Learning Research Intern (June – September 2026)](https://haiders.website/experience/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 Digital Ltd: Founder & CEO (March 2026 – present)](https://haiders.website/experience/clearzone): 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 AI Research: AI/ML Researcher (May 2025 – present)](https://haiders.website/experience/algoverse): Haider Ali leads a team at Algoverse AI Research, on a full scholarship, investigating anchoring bias in LLMs applied to medical diagnosis.
- [FUTHARK Studios: Environment Artist (October 2023 – January 2024)](https://haiders.website/experience/futhark): 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 (August 2023 – April 2025)](https://haiders.website/experience/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: Cosmic Simulation Specialist (March 2023 – August 2025)](https://haiders.website/experience/darkflow): 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)](https://haiders.website/projects/quaternion-hyperfractals): 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 (August – September 2026)](https://haiders.website/projects/qecgen): 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 (June – August 2026)](https://haiders.website/projects/otto): 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 (April 2026 – present)](https://haiders.website/projects/kclmaths): 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 – present)](https://haiders.website/projects/pantrypal): 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 (June – August 2026)](https://haiders.website/projects/wifi-vision): 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 (September 2026 – present)](https://haiders.website/projects/so-101-studio): SO-101 Studio, Haider Ali's toolkit for KCL Robotics, calibrates, teleoperates, records, trains and deploys imitation-learning policies for the SO-101 arm.
- [Pose-driven robot arm (September 2026)](https://haiders.website/projects/esp32-robot-arm): 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.
- [Minecraft in UE5 (2024)](https://haiders.website/projects/minecraft-ue5): Haider Ali recreated Minecraft in Unreal Engine 5 with C++, extending redstone with improved electrical systems, logic gates and automation.
- [catline (August 2026)](https://haiders.website/projects/catline): 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)](https://haiders.website/projects/unicircle): 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 – present)](https://haiders.website/projects/mars-rover): 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)](https://haiders.website/projects/apollo-ai): 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)](https://haiders.website/projects/othello): 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)](https://haiders.website/projects/jarvis-ai): 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 – 2026)](https://haiders.website/projects/hand-tracking): 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 – 2023)](https://haiders.website/projects/college-robotics): 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.

## Optional

- [Full plain-text edition](https://haiders.website/llms-full.txt): every page above in one Markdown file.
- [Arcade](https://haiders.website/arcade): Browser games Haider Ali built into AliOS: Olympus Lander, Minesweeper (§ edition), a 4D Fractal Explorer and Othello against an AI.