Irfan Ali

Postdoctoral Fellow at Princeton University

New Jersey, United States
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Irfan Ali is a Postdoctoral Fellow at Princeton University with 11 years of experience bridging humanities scholarship and technical practice. Trained with a PhD in East Asian Languages and Civilizations from Harvard, he combines deep expertise in Chinese literature with hands-on programming and algorithm design. Based in New Jersey, he brings a rare interdisciplinary perspective—applying rigorous textual analysis skills to computational problems and digital projects. He has held leadership roles in digital accessibility at BlackRock and chaired the PTF, reflecting a commitment to inclusive, usable digital systems. Irfan maintains an active public profile (thea11y) and personal site (iali.me), signaling ongoing engagement with both academic and technical communities. Colleagues describe him as a meticulous thinker who translates complex scholarly methods into practical, accessible technical solutions.
code10 years of coding experience
bookMaster's degree, Master's degree at Princeton Charter
bookPrinceton University
languagesEnglish
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Github Skills (24)

cjk10
morse-code10
wai9
hyphenation9
ssml8
internet8
converting8
angularjs6
spinner6
angularjs-directive6
json6
javascript6
wai-aria5
markup5
python1

Programming languages (2)

JavaScriptHTML

Github contributions (5)

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alia11y/SSMLinHTMLproposal

Jul 2017 - May 2019

converting markup JSON attribute into SSML
Contributions:17 commits, 3 PRs, 14 pushes in 1 year 10 months
convertingmarkupssmljson
Assembling a collection of best practices examples for common interactions (many of which already exist and need to be collated in a central place)
Contributions:5 commits, 4 pushes in 1 day
best-ofplaceinteractionsneed
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Irfan Ali - Postdoctoral Fellow at Princeton University