Zareen Ali

Zareen is a Co-Founder of Cogs AI. Zareen’s journey to starting Cogs AI began in 2017 when, alongside a job as a product manager for an AI medtech startup, she worked part-time teaching and mentoring neurodivergent children. Subsequently, she decided to immerse herself in the latest knowledge and research around neurodiversity, specialising in educational neuroscience for her Master’s degree in Education at Harvard. She put her knowledge into practice back in the UK, working in a school providing teaching support for neurodivergent children, before founding Cogs AI in 2021. Her experience working closely with neurodivergent young people, especially girls, led her to a better understanding of her own life experiences; she was diagnosed as autistic in 2023.