Ali Merchant, President and Co-Founder

Ali Merchant co-founded CADNexus after 5 years of leading innovative research in turbomachinery propulsion at MIT. He has been the lead researcher on advanced aircraft propulsion projects in collaboration with NASA and major US aerospace companies. Ali brings deep experience and knowledge of computational software and simulation-based design systems combined with strong domain expertise to the CADNexus team. Ali holds a Masters and Ph.D. from the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics at MIT.

Robert Haimes, Chief Software Architect and Co-Founder

Robert Haimes is the primary architect of the CADNexus' CAE Gateway technology. His areas of expertise include computational geometry, scientific visualization, parallel computing, and computational fluid dynamics. Robert has published extensively in each of these areas. He has developed world-class visualization software that is currently being used in commercial visualization packages and in the aerospace industry. Robert holds a Masters degree from Rensselaer Polytechnic and is currently Principal Research Engineer in the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics at MIT.