Profile for
Zaki Malik, Ph.D.
Professor of Management Science

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Management, Marketing, & Management Science
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Curriculum Vitae

My research interests lie broadly in service computing, business analytics, reliable distributed systems, Web databases and semantic integration systems. The focus of my research is on applying service-oriented techniques in these areas to build analytical systems that are deployable in practice. Specifically, I have explored how to use reputation information in resolving trust and privacy issues in service-oriented environments, how to use information obfuscation techniques to enhance privacy, how to build more efficient Web databases and how to add semantics to legacy data to facilitate integration. The coherent theme of my work is solving practical real world problems via innovative research and development, with a focus on building efficient and reliable distributed systems. I am also a founding member of a software development firm TechTics.

A Conversation with Dr. Malik

We begin our conversation with Dr. Malik by exploring his perspectives on his career and academic journey through a series of questions.

Why do you like teaching?

The opportunity to interact with college students and faculty members with various interests and backgrounds is a prime factor for me to pursue a career in academia. I am firmly of the opinion that the teaching methods we adopt have a great impact on the ability of students to absorb course materials as well as their perception about learning, knowledge and science. Inspirational learning has always been my motto since I joined academia in 2009. It aims at promoting a learning environment that motivates students.

Why did you choose your discipline?

My BS, MS and PhD degrees are all in Computer Science. In the 90s, computer systems were slowly becoming ubiquitous, so it was a natural choice to pursue a discipline that had a bright future.

Tell us about a project you are working on or have completed.

We recently published a paper for extracting a weighted taxonomy of products from a Twitter feed. Nowadays, even before a new product comes to the market, or is to be announced, like at an Apple or Google event, users start the rumors/talk about the product design or specifications, and their expectations of it. With all this discussion, it is not only the product that affects the future success of the product but various other factors that can directly or indirectly influence the user's perspective. In this work, we present an approach to extract the most important concepts related to a product, being discussed on Twitter. We believe that this weighted taxonomy can be used to predict the success of the product even before the official release, and align marketing resources, etc. in a beneficial manner.

What has been your favorite course to teach?

I love teaching the Business Analytics Programming with Python course because it teaches students with valuable, in-demand skills that are highly applicable across industries. It's incredibly rewarding to see students with all levels of programing experience (ranging from none to proficient) develop their ability to analyze data and make data-driven decisions using Python. The course strikes a perfect balance between programming and solving real-world business problems, which keeps both the students and me engaged and inspired. Watching students gain confidence in their coding abilities and apply analytics tools to practical scenarios is deeply fulfilling.

Why would you encourage a student to attend East Texas A&M?

You cannot beat the affordable, world-class education in a very promising/happening geographical location. We are positioned in close proximity to a major metro area while being a small college town.

Educational Background

Awards and Honors

  • Teaching Excellence – Student's Choice Award, College of Business, East Texas A&M University (2024)
  • Sandra Lyday & Gary J. Fernandes Endowed Professor of Business Analytics (since 2020)
  • Paul W. Barrus Distinguished Faculty Award for Teaching, East Texas A & M University (2020)
  • Best Paper Award. IEEE ICICS (2016), IEEE ICWS (2015), ICE2T (2014)

Research Interests

  • Service Computing
  • Business Analytics
  • Reliable Distributed Systems
  • Social Networks
  • Web Databases
  • Semantic Integration Systems
  • BUSA 326 Data and Information Management
  • BUSA 423 Business Analytics Programming
  • BUSA 497 Cyber Security and IT Auditing
  • BUSA 497 Introduction to Information Systems
  • BUSA 501/511 Introduction to Business Analytics
  • BUSA 523 Business Analytics Programming
  • BUSA 526 Database Management
  • BUSA 533 Cyber Information Security
  • BUSA 533 Cyber Security and IT Auditing
  • BUSA 537 Advanced Analytics (with R)
  • BUSA 539 Cyber Forensics & Info. Security Policy Governance
  • BUSA 549 Data Ethics and Privacy

Select Publications

  • A. Rezgui, and Z. Malik. An Analysis of Power Consumption in Mobile Cloud Computing, Cloud Computing and Services Science, Lecture Notes on Communications in Computer and Information Science (LNCCIS), Eds. M. Helfert, V. Munoz, and D. Ferguson, v. 581, pg. 263 – 278, Springer, February 2016.
  • B. Medjahed, Z. Malik, and S. Benbernou. On the Composability of Semantic Web Services. Web Services Foundations I, Springer New York Publishers, Ed. A. Bouguettaya, M. Sheng and F. Daniel, ISBN 978-1-4614-7517-0, pg. 137-160, 2014.
  • K. Hashmi, A. Alhosban, S. Benbernou, B. Medjahed, Z. Malik. Automated Negotiation Among Web services. Web Services Foundations II, Springer New York Publishers, Ed. A. Bouguettaya, M. Sheng and F. Daniel, ISBN 978-1-4614-7534-7, pg. 451-482, 2014.
  • A. Bouguettaya, Z. Malik, X. Liu, A. Rezgui and L. Korff. WEBFINDIT: Providing Data and Service-Centric Access Through a Scalable Middleware. Advanced Principles for Improving Database Design, Systems Modeling, and Software Development, IGI-Global Publishers. Eds. K. Siau and J. Erickson, ISBN: 978-1-60566-172-8, November 2008.
  • A. Bouguettaya, Z. Malik, A. Rezgui and L. Korff. A Scalable Middleware for Web Databases. Selected Readings on Database Technologies and Applications, IGI-Global Publishers, Ed. T. Halpin, ISBN 978-1-60566-098-1, August 2008.
  • A. Rezgui, A. Bouguettaya, and Z. Malik, Using Reputation to Preserve Privacy on the Semantic Web. Information Security Policies and Actions in Modern Integrated Systems, Idea-group Publishers. Eds. C. Bellettini and M. G. Fugini, ISBN 1-59140-186-0, February 2004.

  • M. Arif, M. Rafique, S. Lim, and Z. Malik. Infrastructure-Aware TensorFlow for Heterogeneous Datacenters. IEEE Symposium on Modelling, Analysis, and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (Mascots 2020), Nice, France, November 2020.
  • A. Mirzaeinia, A. Rezgui, Z. Malik, and M. Mirzaeinia. Min-Edge P-cycles: An Efficient Approach for Computing P-cycles in Optical Data Center Networks. 12th International Conference on Cloud Computing (CLOUD 2019), San Diego, CA, USA, June 2019.
  • R. P. Mohammadiani, and Z. Malik. The Effects of Interactivity of Electronic Word of Mouth Systems on Value Creation Practices on Social Media. American Marketing Association Winter Academic Conference, Austin, TX. USA, February 2019.
  • B. Randolph-Seng, Y. Atinc, S. Bui, and Z. Malik. Big Data and the Disillusioned Employee: The Ethical Internet of Things. Academy of Management Specialized Conference: Big Data and Managing in a Digital Economy (AOM – Big Data), Guildford, England, April 2018.
  • M. F. Akbar, E. U. Munir, M. M. Rafique, Z. Malik, S. U. Khan, and L. T. Yang. List-Based Task Scheduling for Cloud Computing, 12th IEEE International Conference on Green Computing and Communications (GreenCom), Chengdu, China, December 2016.
  • H. Labbaci, B. Medjahed, Y. Aklouf, and Z. Malik.  Follow the Leader: A Social Network Approach for Service Communities. 14th International Conference on Service-Oriented Computing (ICSOC 2016), Alberta, Canada, October 2016.
  • N. Ammar, Z. Malik, A. Rezgui, and E. Bertino, XACML policy evaluation with dynamic context handling,  IEEE 32nd International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE 2016), Helsinki, Finland, May 20, 2016.
  • E. Najmi, Z. Malik, K. Hashmi, and A. Rezgui, “ConceptRDF: An RDF presentation of ConceptNet knowledge base, IEEE 7th International Conference on Information and Communication Systems (ICICS), Irbid, Jordan, April 5 – 7, 2016. (Best Paper Award).
  • K. Hashmi, H. AlJafar, Z. Malik, and A. Alhosban, A bat algorithm based approach of QoS optimization for long term business pattern, IEEE 7th International Conference on Information and Communication Systems (ICICS), Irbid, Jordan, April 5 – 7, 2016.
  • A. Rezgui, N. Davis, Z. Malik, B. Medjahed, and H. Soliman. CloudFinder: A System for Processing Big Data Workloads on GENI Resources, Poster, GENI Network Innovators Community Event (GENI NICE), Workshop held in conjunction with the 23th IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP), San Francisco, CA, November 10, 2015.
  • M. Alodib, and Z. Malik. A Big Data Approach to Enhance the Integration of Access Control Policies for Web Services. IEEE/ACIS International Conference on Computer and Information Science (ICIS 2015), Las Vegas, USA. June 28 – July 1, 2015.
  • N. Ammar, Z. Malik, B. Medjahed, and M. Alodib. K-Anonymity Based Approach For Privacy-Preserving Web Service Selection. IEEE International Conference on Web Services (ICWS 2015), New York, USA. June 27 – July 2, 2015.
  • A. Rezgui, and Z. Malik. Evaluation of Linux I/O Schedulers for Big Data Workloads. 5th International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science (CLOSER 2015), Lisbon, Portugal, May 20-22, 2015.
  • A. Alhosban, K. Hashmi, Z. Malik, and B. Medjahed. Integrating Fault-Tolerance Method into Service-Oriented Computing. 9th. International IEEE Symposium on Service-Oriented System Engineering (SOSE 2015), San Francisco, CA., March 30 – April 3, 2015.
  • A. Rezgui, M. White, S. Rezgui, and Z. Malik. Evaluation of Linux I/O Schedulers for Big Data Workloads. 4th IEEE International Conference on Big Data and Cloud Computing (BDCloud 2014), Sydney, Australia, December 3-5, 2014.
  • K. Hashmi, E. Najmi, Z. Malik, N. Ammar, and B. Medjahed. Sentiment Analysis for Intelligent Ratings Management, 11th ACS/IEEE International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications (AICCSA 2014), Doha, Qatar, November 10-13, 2014.
  • E. Najmi, K. Hashmi, Z. Malik, A. Rezgui, and H. Khan. ConceptOnto: An upper ontology based on Conceptnet, 11th ACS/IEEE International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications (AICCSA 2014), Doha, Qatar, November 10-13, 2014.
  • F. Khazalah, Z. Malik, and A. Rezgui. Automatic mapping rules and OWL ontology extraction for the OBDA Ontop.10th IEEE International Conference on Collaborative Computing: Networking, Applications and Worksharing (CollaborateCom 2014), Miami, Florida, USA, October 22-25, 2014.
  • H. Aljafer, Z. Malik, A. Alodib, and A. Rezgui. An Experimental Evaluation of Data Confidentiality Measures on the Cloud, International Conference on Management of computational and collective Intelligence in Digital Ecosystems (MEDES 2014), Buraydah, Saudi Arabia, September 15 – 17, 2014.
  • A. Alhosban, M. Alhusban, K. Hashmi, Z. Malik, A. Rezgui. FT-SOA: A Failure-prediction Technique in Service-Oriented System, IEEE 22nd International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (MASCOTS 2014), Paris, France, September 9 – 11, 2014.
  • N. Ammar, Z. Malik, E. Bertino, and A. Rezgui. Dynamic Privacy Policy Management in Services-based Interactions, 25th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA 2014), Munich, Germany, September 1 – 5, 2014.
  • H. Khan, S. Ahmad, H. Artail, Z. Malik, and M. Niazi. Information Technology Adoption, Possible Challenges, and Framework of Supply Chain Management: A Case Study of a Leading Gulf Economy, IEEE International Conference on Engineering Technology & Technopreneurship (ICE2T), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia August 27 – 29, 2014. (Best Paper Award).
  • N. Ammar, Z. Malik, A. Rezgui, and A. Alodib. MobiDyC: Private Mobile-Based Health Data Sharing Through Dynamic Context Handling, 11th International Conference on Mobile Systems and Pervasive Computing (MobiSPC-2014), Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada, August 18-21, 2014.
  • A. Rezgui, G. Quezada, M. M. Rafique and Z. Malik. A Capacity Allocation Approach for Volunteer Cloud Federations Using Poisson-Gamma Gibbs Sampling, 7th IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing (CLOUD 2014), Anchorage, Alaska, June 27 – July 2, 2014 (Acceptance rate: 20%).
  • K. Hashmi, E. Najmi, Z. Malik, A. Alhosban, A. Rezgui, and B. Medjahed. Automated Negotiation Using Semantic Rules, IEEE International Conference on Services Computing (SCC 2014), Anchorage, Alaska, June 27 – July 2, 2014.
  • K. Hashmi, E. Najmi, Z. Malik, and A. Rezgui. A Framework for Automated Service Negotiation, IEEE International Conference on Service Oriented Computing and Applications (SOCA 2013), Kauai, Hawaii, December 16-18, 2013.
  • E. Najmi, K. Hashmi, F. Khazalah, and Z. Malik. Intelligent Semantic Question Answering System, IEEE International Conference on Cybernetics (CYBCONF 2013), Lausanne Switzerland, June 13-15, 2013.
  • F. Khazalah, I. Ababneh, and Z. Malik. Forwarding Group Maintenance of ODMRP for MANETs, International Conference on Ambient Systems, Networks and Technologies (ANT 2013), Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, June 25-28, 2013.
  • K. Hashmi, A. Alhosban, E. Najmi, and Z. Malik. Dependency Modeling in Automated Web Services Quality Component Negotiations, IEEE International Conference on Cybernetics (CYBCONF 2013), Lausanne Switzerland, June 13-15, 2013.
  • A. Rezgui, Z. Malik, J. Xia, K. Liu, and C. Yang. Data Intensive Spatial Indexing on the Cloud, International Conference on Computational Science (ICCS-2013), pg. 2615-2618, Barcelona, Spain, June 5-7, 2013.
  • A. Alhosban, K. Hashmi, Z. Malik, and B. Medjahed. Self-healing Framework for Cloud-based Services, IEEE International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications (AICCSA 2013), Fes, Morocco, May 27-30, 2013.
  • K. Hashmi, A. Alhosban, A. Rezgui, E. Najmi, and Z. Malik. Automated Web Service Quality Component Negotiation using NSGA-2. IEEE International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications (AICCSA 2013), Fes, Morocco, May 27-30, 2013.
  • A. Rezgui, Z. Malik, and C. Yang. High-Resolution Spatial Interpolation on Cloud Platforms, ACM Symposium on Applied Computing-Cloud Computing Track (SAC-2013), pg. 377-382, Coimbra, Portugal, March 18-22, 2013.
  • A. Alhosban, I. Ababneh, Z. Malik. GFDA: Route Discovery Algorithms for On-demand Mobile Ad Hoc Routing Protocols, Procedia Computer Science Volume 10, ANT 2012 and MobiWIS 2012, pg. 70-77, Niagara Falls, Canada, August 27-29, 2012.
  • F. Khazalah, Z. Malik, B. Medjahed. Automatic Conflict Resolution in a CDSS. International Conference on Scientific and Statistical Database Management (SSDBM 2012), Chania, Crete, Greece, June 25-27, 2012.
  • S.-E. Tbahriti, B. Medjahed, Z. Malik, C. Ghedira, and M. Mrissa. How to Preserve Privacy in Services Interaction, IEEE International Symposium on Frontiers of Information Systems and Network Applications (FINA-2012), in conjunction with the 26th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications (AINA-2012), Fukuoka, Japan, March 26-29, 2012.
  • S.-E. Tbahriti, B. Medjahed, Z. Malik, C. Ghedira, and M. Mrissa. Meerkat – A Dynamic Privacy Framework for Web Services, IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI-2011), Lyon, France, August 22-27, 2011.
  • K. Hashmi, A. Alhosban, Z. Malik, and B. Medjahed. A Genetic Algorithm-based Approach for Service Negotiation, International Conference on Web Services (ICWS), Washington, DC, USA, July 4-9, 2011.
  • A. Alhosban, K. Hashmi, Z. Malik, and B. Medjahed. Assessing Fault Occurrence Likelihood for Service-Oriented Systems, 11th International Conference on Web Engineering (ICWE 2011), Paphos, Greece, June 20-24, 2011.
  • B. Medjahed, and Z. Malik. Bottom-Up Fault Management in Composite Web Services, 23rd International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering (CAiSE’11), London, UK, June 20-24, 2011.
  • Z. Malik, and B. Medjahed. Trust Assessment for Web Services under Uncertainty, 8th International Conference on Service-Oriented Computing (ICSOC), San Francisco, CA, USA, December 7-10, 2010.
  • Z. Malik, and B. Medjahed. Maintaining Trustworthiness of Service Compositions, ACM International Conference on Frontiers of Information Technology (FiT), Islamabad, Pakistan, December 2010.
  • Z. Malik, and I. Akbar, and A. Bouguettaya. Web Services Reputation Assessment Using a Hidden Markov Model, 7th International Joint Conference on Service-Oriented Computing (ICSOC-ServiceWave), Stockholm, Sweden, November 24-27, 2009.
  • S. Nepal , Z. Malik, and A. Bouguettaya. Reputation Propagation in Composite Services, International Conference on Web Services (ICWS), Los Angeles, CA, USA, July 2009.
  • A. K. Sinha, Z. Malik and A. Rezgui. Semantics-based Interoperability Framework for the Geosciences, American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, USA, December 2008.
  • A. Rezgui, Z. Malik, and A. K. Sinha. Semantics-Enabled Registration and Integration Engines (DIA and SEDRE) for the Earth Sciences, International Geoinformatics Conference, Potsdam, Germany, June 2008.
  • Z. Malik and A. Bouguettaya. Evaluating Rater Credibility for Reputation Assessment of Web Services. 8th International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering (WISE 2007), 14(2-3), Nancy, France, December 2007.
  • Z. Malik, A. Rezgui and A. K. Sinha. Semantically-Enabled E-Geoscience for Knowledge Discovery, Geologic Society of America Annual Meeting, Denver, CO, USA, October 2007.
  • A. K. Sinha, A. Rezgui and Z. Malik. Geoinformatics in the 21st. Century: Identifying Priority Technologies to Meet Societal Challenges, Geologic Society of America Annual Meeting, Denver, CO, USA, October 2007.
  • A. Bouguettaya, D. Gracanin, Q. Yu, X. Zhang, X. Liu, Z. Malik, and A. Rezgui. WebSenior: A Digital Government Infrastructure for Senior Citizens, International Workshop on the Management of Business Processes in Government, co-located with 5th International Conference on Business Process Management (BPM 2007), Brisbane, Australia, September 2007.
  • Z. Malik, A. Rezgui, A. K. Sinha, K. Lin, and A. Bouguettaya. DIA: A Web Services-based Infrastructure for Semantic Integration in Geoinformatics, International Conference on Web Services (ICWS), Salt Lake City, UT, USA, July 2007.
  • M. Khan and Z. Malik. An MDA-based Approach for Specifying Semantic Portals, International Conference on Web Services (ICWS), Work in Progress Track, Salt Lake City, UT, USA, July 2007.
  • Z. Malik, A. Rezgui and A. K. Sinha. Ontologic Integration of Geoscience Data on the Semantic Web, International Geoinformatics Conference, San Diego, CA, USA, May 2007.
  • A. Rezgui, Z. Malik, and A. K. Sinha. DIA Engine: Discovery, Integration and Analysis of Earth Science Data, International Geoinformatics Conference, San Diego, CA, USA, May 2007.
  • A. K. Sinha, Z. Malik, A. Rezgui and A. Dalton. Discovery, Integration and Analysis Engine for Earth Science Data, American GeoPhysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, USA, December 2006.
  • A. Bouguettaya, D. Gracanin, Q. Yu, X. Zhang, X. Liu and Z. Malik. Ubiquitous Web Services for E-Government Social Services, AAAI Spring Symposium The Semantic Web meets eGovernment, Stanford University, CA, USA, March 27-29, 2006.
  • A. Rezgui, A. Bouguettaya, and Z. Malik. A Reputation-based Approach to Preserving Privacy in Web Services, 4th VLDB Workshop on Technologies for E-Services (TES'03), Berlin, Germany, September 2003.

  • H. Nisar, S. Masood, Z. Malik, and A. Abid. Talking Head Generation Through Generative Models and Cross-Modal Synthesis Techniques. Journal of Imaging, v. 12 (3), pg. 119. https://doi.org/10.3390/jimaging12030119, 2026.
  • I. A. Khawaja, K. Abid, U. Farooq, Z. Malik and A. Abid. Empowering Collaborative Application
  • Development: A Robust Framework for Ad-Hoc Distributed Systems, IEEE Access, v. 12, pg. 62296-62316, doi: 10.1109/ACCESS.2024.3395370, 2024.
  • B. Randolph-Seng, Y. Atinc, S. Bui, and Z. Malik. Big Data and the disillusioned employee: Inside the ethical Internet of Things, Technological Forecasting and Social Change, v. 201, 123271, April 2024.
  •  R. P. Mohammadiani, and Z. Malik. Social Media Value Creation Practices and Interactivity of Electronic Word of Mouth. Journal of Information Technology Management (JITM), v. 15 (2), pg. 73-91, doi: 10.22059/JITM.2022.317195.2691, 2023.
  • Z. Malik, E. Najmi, K. Hashmi, M. Mustafa Rafique, and A. Rezgui. Product Weighted Taxonomy Extraction using Twitter. International Journal of Business Information Systems (IJBIS), https://doi.org/10.1504/ijbis.2022.122875, v. 39 (4), pg. 497-515, May 2022.
  • A. Afzal, E. Rasoulinezhad, and Z. Malik. Green Finance and Sustainable Development in Europe. Economic Research-Ekonomska Istraživanja (ER-EI), https://doi.org/10.1080/1331677X.2021.2024081, Jan 2022.
  • 6. A. Alhosban, Z. Malik, K. Hashmi, B. Medjahed, H. Al-Ababneh. A Two Phases Self-healing Framework for Service-oriented Systems. ACM Transactions on the Web (TWeb), https://doi.org/10.1145/3450443, v. 23 (1), pg. 1-25, May 2021.
  • A. Rezgui, N. Davis, Z. Malik, B. Medjahed, and H. Soliman. CloudFinder: A System for Processing Big Data Workloads on Volunteered Federated Clouds. IEEE Transactions on Big Data (TBD), v. 6 (2), pg. 347-358, doi: 10.1109/TBDATA.2017.2703830, June 2020.
  • A. Alhosban, Z. Malik, and B. Medjahed. A Sustainable Self-Healing Framework for Big Data in Service-oriented Systems. ACM Transactions on the Web (TWeb), 2020.
  • Z. Malik, E. Najmi, K. Hashmi, M. Mustafa Rafique, and A. Rezgui. Product Weighted Taxonomy Extraction using Twitter. International Journal of Business Information Systems (IJBIS), 2019.
  • H. Aljafer, Z. Malik, K. Hashmi, and M. Rafique, Profit Maximization in Long-Term e-Service Agreements. International Journal of Business Information Systems (IJBIS), 2019.
  • Z. Malik, K. Hashmi, E. Najmi, and A. Rezgui, Wisdom Extraction in Knowledge-based Information Systems. Journal of Knowledge Management (JKM), https://doi.org/10.1108/JKM-05-2018-0288, Vol. 23 Issue: 1, pp.23-45, January 2019.
  • A. Mirzaeinia, A. Rezgui, Z. Malik, and M. Mirzaeinia. Min-Edge P-cycles: An Efficient Approach for Computing P-cycles in Optical Data Center Networks. 12th International Conference on Cloud Computing (CLOUD 2019), San Diego, CA, USA, June 2019.
  • R. P. Mohammadiani, and Z. Malik. The Effects of Interactivity of Electronic Word of Mouth Systems on Value Creation Practices on Social Media. American Marketing Association Winter Academic Conference, Austin, TX. USA, February 2019.
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