Dr. Ali Heydari

Technical Director & Distinguished Engineer, NVIDIA

Ali Heydari is a Technical Director and Distinguished Engineer at NVIDIA, leading the architecture and deployment of next-generation thermal and infrastructure technologies for high-density AI systems and gigawatt-scale AI factories. His work spans advanced liquid cooling, energy-efficient infrastructure, digital twins, heat reuse, and scalable AI factory design. ALi_Heydario_YOTTA_Short_Bio_2026.pdf Before NVIDIA, Ali held engineering and infrastructure leadership roles at Baidu, Twitter, Meta, and Sun Microsystems, helping pioneer hyperscale server, cooling, power, and data center technologies.

He has also served as a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Sharif University of Technology and has contributed to more than 190 U.S. patents and hundreds of technical publications.