He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Purdue University in 2007 and then worked in the Biocomplexity Institute of Virginia Tech as a postdoc and as a research scientist before joining Texas A&M University– Kingsville in 2016. His research interests are big data analytics, high performance computing, parallel and distributed computing, data science and data mining. His research work received a best paper award (DISC 2006) and a best paper award nomination (SC 2016). Additional details about Dr. Khan and his work can be found at www.maleqkhan.net.