Mohamed E. Ali is a professor of mechanical engineering department at King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Colorado at Boulder, Colorado, USA in 1988. His research interests include natural and forced convection heat transfer, nanofluid heat transfer, novel thermal insulating materials, and stability of fluids. He has published 105 articles in well-recognized (ISI) journals and 45 in conference proceedings. He is currently on the editorial boards of King Saud University (Engineering Sciences Journal) and Journal of Mechanics Engineering and Automation. He is a referee for most international journals in his field. He has collaborated research with professors at University of Colorado at Boulder, Northwestern University at Evanston, IL, and Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zürich, Switzerland. His new invention of natural insulating material has been recognized by the Asia Research News 2012 and by Physics Today Magazine, July 2014 Daily edition, Enterprise. This invention was awarded the gold medal at the British Invention Show 2011 and at the International Exhibition of Inventions of Geneva 2012. It also awarded the TechConnect Innovation Award by the TechConnect World Innovation Summit & Showcase, in 2014, Washington, DC, USA. He was also awarded the Distinguished Research and Publication Award for the year 2010, the Best Research Award for the year 2011 and the second prize winner on his Distinguished Research published in ISI journals for the year 2014 and recently awarded a certificate of appreciation on his excellent research from the College of Engineering at King Saud University for the year 2016-2017. He is a member at ASME, American Society of Thermal and Fluids Engineers (ASTFE), and Egyptian Engineering Syndicate.