Tanu Malik
Associate Professor
311 Naka Hall
Email: tanu@missouri.edu
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Biography
Tanu Malik is an associate professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Missouri. Her research focuses on big data management, accountable and reproducible distributed and parallel systems and trustworthy AI. At Mizzou, she leads the RADIANT Lab, supported by funding from the National Science Foundation, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the Department of Energy and the Bloomberg Foundation. Her lab has pioneered innovative solutions in reproducible and accountable systems for trustworthy AI, benefiting scientists across multiple domains.
Malik is a recipient of the NSF CAREER Award and a DoE Better Scientific Software Fellowship. Before joining Mizzou in 2025, she served as associate professor at DePaul University in Chicago and held research scientist roles at the University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory.
She earned her PhD and MS in computer science from Johns Hopkins University in 2008 and her B.Tech in civil engineering from IIT Kanpur in 1999. Malik is an active member of both the ACM and IEEE.
Education
PhD from Johns Hopkins University
MS from Johns Hopkins University
B.Tech from IIT Kanpur
Technical Focus
Distributed and parallel systems
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