Mujeeb r. malik, phd 

Dr. Mujeeb Malik is the Senior Aerodynamicist at NASA Langley Research Center involved in research in simulation and modeling of complex turbulent flows He has served as Head of Computational AeroSciences Branch at Langley where he led research in the development of advanced computational fluid dynamics (CFD) methods over a wide speed regime, from subsonic to hypersonic. He also sponsored NASA’s CFD Vision 2030 Study, which received world acclaim. Dr. Malik is well-known for his research in boundary layer stability and laminar-turbulent transition, in particular for his pioneering research in hypersonic boundary layer transition, developing computational methods and tools for its prediction, and fundamental studies to unravel physics of boundary layer stability and control. Before joining NASA, he was President of High Technology Corporation, a Research & Development firm that he founded.

He received his PhD from Iowa State University in 1978. During his PhD studies, he was also an academic visitor to Imperial College London for 6 months. His earlier education was at T. I. College, Rabwah, University of Engineering and Technology, Lahore (both in Pakistan) and the University of Toronto in Canada.

He is a Fellow of American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), American Physical Society and American Society of Mechanical Engineers. He received NASA’s Exceptional Service Medal in 2012, Silver Achievement Medal in 2018 as well as several group achievement awards over the years. In 2022, he was presented AIAA’s prestigious AIAA Fluid Dynamics Award.