arif.malik@utdallas.edu
Phone: (+1) 972-883-4550
Office: ECSW 3.150B
800 W. Campbell Road.
Mailstop: ECW 31
Richardson, TX 75080-3021
Arif Malik has been an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at The University of Texas at Dallas since 2015. Prior to joining UT Dallas, Malik was an Assistant Professor of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering at Saint Louis University. He received his PhD from Wright State in 2007, and prior to this he held several positions in industry, including 5 years as a process control & research engineer for the metals industry, 2 years as an air-movement applications engineer, and 5 years in a start-up company that he co-founded to supply process control software for the metals manufacturing industry. Malik is a recipient of NSF’s CAREER Award, and his research involves uncertainty-based computational mechanics to address interdisciplinary problems related to advanced manufacturing. Aside from research and teaching at UTD, Malik and his graduate students run the annual Engineering Brighter Futures for Autism event in which Dallas area teens partner with UTD mechanical engineering students practice social collaboration skills while conducting manufacturing-related design-build-test 3D printing competitions. Malik is also an FAA-certified commercial pilot and flies a Texas-built 1979 Mooney M20J airplane.
