Dr. Khalid Malik is Professor of computer science and director of cybersecurity at the College of Innovation and Technology, University of Michigan-Flint.  His research centers on designing secure, intelligent, and decentralized decision support systems using multimodal, federated, trustworthy, and neuro-symbolic AI. In healthcare, he specializes in predicting cerebrovascular and cardiovascular events through clinical text and multiple medical imaging modalities (e.g., DSA, MRA). In cybersecurity, his research is directed towards developing forensic examiners to ensure the authenticity, integrity, and veracity of multimedia (audios, videos, images) and implementing web filtering using multimodal and neuro-symbolic AI.  Dr. Malik’s research is funded by multiple National Science Foundation awards, the Brain Aneurysm Foundation, the Department of Energy, the Michigan Translational Research and Commercialization (MTRAC) Innovation Hub, MTRAC Life Sciences, and several national and international industry partners. He is a recipient of numerous accolades, not limited to Oakland’s Young Investigator Research award (2018), SECS Outstanding Research award (2019) and Distinguished Associate Professor award (2021).