Agentic AI & LLMs
Autonomous AI agents that reason, plan and make decisions, and multi-agent LLM orchestration that automates complex AI workflows end to end.
Assistant Research Professor · NSPARC, Mississippi State University
Asad Waqar Malik
I build next-generation AI systems that connect foundation models to real-world cyber-physical environments. My work centers on agentic AI, large language models, and multi-agent orchestration: autonomous agents that reason, collaborate and carry out complex workflows across edge, cloud and IoT infrastructure under tight limits on latency, reliability, security and compute.
I am Associate Editor of IEEE Access and Co-PI on a $1M NSF-funded AI project. My work appears in IEEE Internet Computing, IEEE Internet of Things Journal, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, Scientific Reports and other venues.
- Citations
- 4,136
- h-index
- 37
- i10-index
- 87
- Publications
- 196
- NSF funding
- $1M
Research
Areas of focus
My long-term vision is to build AI systems that move beyond conversation into autonomous execution, integrating reasoning, planning, simulation and real-time interaction with the physical world.
Edge AI & AI Infrastructure
Distributed inference on resource-constrained devices and intelligent resource management across edge, cloud and IoT, so AI meets real latency and compute budgets.
Digital Twins & Cyber-Physical AI
Intelligent digital twins and AI for connected vehicles, manufacturing, healthcare and smart infrastructure, built on a long record in distributed simulation.
Trustworthy & Efficient AI
AI systems that are secure, reliable and energy-efficient by design, from attack detection in cyber-physical systems to green, resource-aware deployment.
Current funding
NSF SCH · IIS-2501021
Large-scale multi-modality learning system to identify tobacco addiction and predictive analytics via social media platforms.
Citations per year
Source: Google Scholar
Editorial service
Associate Editor, IEEE AccessAug 2019 – present
Career
Experience
Assistant Research Professor
National Strategic Planning & Analysis Research Center (NSPARC), Mississippi State University, MS, US
Postdoctoral Fellow
Intelligent Systems Center, Missouri University of Science and Technology, Rolla, MO, US
Associate Professor
National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST), Islamabad, Pakistan
Research Fellow
Department of Computer Science, North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND, US
Senior Faculty
Department of Information Systems, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Research Fellow
Department of Electrical Engineering, North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND, US
Assistant Professor
National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST), Islamabad, Pakistan
Senior Member Technical
Center for Advanced Research in Engineering (CARE), Islamabad, Pakistan
Research Fellow
College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, US
Training
Education
PhD, Computer Software Engineering
National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST), Pakistan
Visiting researcher at the College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology (through the HEC IRSIP program). Advisors: Dr. Shoab A. Khan (NUST) and Dr. Richard Fujimoto (Georgia Tech).
Thesis: Network Enabled Distributed Modeling and Simulation for Mission Critical Applications
MS, Software Engineering
National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST), Pakistan
Thesis: HLA Compliant Network Enabled Distributed Modeling and Simulation Infrastructure Design
BS (Hons), Computer Science
Hamdard University, Islamabad, Pakistan
Publications
Most cited work
All publications
Contact
Let’s collaborate
I’m open to research collaborations, student supervision and reviewing or editorial work in agentic AI, LLM systems, edge AI and intelligent cyber-physical systems.
asad.malik@msstate.eduNSPARC · Mississippi State University · Starkville, MS, US