Dr. Wasim Q. Malik serves on the faculty of Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), Harvard Medical School. He is the Director of Biomarker Research at the MGH
Clinical Trial Network and Institute (CTNI) and an Assistant Professor in the
Department of Psychiatry. As part of his work at CTNI, he sits on the Steering Committee of
NIH EPPIC-Net and works closely with the life sciences industry for clinical research. He is also affiliated with the
Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at
Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Wasim received his Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the
University of Oxford, UK, in 2005. In his doctoral research, he designed high data-rate ultrawideband (UWB) systems for indoor wireless communications. From 2005 to 2007, he was a Research Fellow at the University of Oxford, where he developed MIMO signal processing techniques for multi-gigabit UWB wireless communications. From 2007-2010, he was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at
MIT LIDS and
MIT/Harvard NSRL with
Prof. Emery Brown, where he conducted research in computational neuroscience focusing on statistical signal processing and adaptive filtering algorithms for two-photon neuroimaging and neural decoding. From 2010-2017, he was affiliated with the
Institute for Brain Science at
Brown University as a Visiting Scientist, and also with the
Center for Neurorestoration and Neurotechnology, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Providence, RI, where he developed brain-machine interface technology for the paralyzed. Prior to his appointment at CTNI, he served on the faculty at
Department of Anesthesia, Critical Care and Pain Medicine at MGH.
He has published an edited book titled
Ultra-Wideband Antennas and Propagation for Communications, Radar and Imaging (UK: Wiley, 2006). He was the Lead Guest Editor of the
IET Microwaves Antennas and Propagation special issue on "
Antenna systems and propagation for future wireless communications" (Dec. 2007). In addition to 5 patents, he has published in excess of 100 research papers in refereed journals and conference proceedings. He received the
Association for Computing Machinery Recognition of Service Award, Best Paper Award in the
ARMMS RF & Microwave Conference (Steventon, UK), Best Student Paper Award in IEEE BioSMART 2016, the
ESU Lindemann Science Fellowship, the
CIMIT Eleanor and Miles Shore Career Development Award, Harvard University's
William F. Milton Fund Award, the
HDSA Human Biology Project Fellowship, and others.
Wasim is actively involved with the innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystem. He serves on the Board of Directors at the
Epilepsy Foundation, and as a Startup Mentor in neuroscience at
Creative Destruction Lab and in the life sciences at NYU Stern Business School's
Endless Frontier Lab. He regularly serves on various
National Science Foundation grant review panels, and has been a grant reviewer for the national research councils of Norway, Romania, Singapore and Chile. He is a Steering Committee Member of the
IEEE Brain Initiative, the Chair of the
IEEE Engineering and Medicine in Biology Society (EMBS), Boston Section, and a Senior Member of the
IEEE. In addition to being a frequent keynote speaker and panelist at international conferences, he routinely serves on the conference organizing committees, and was the Conference Chair at IET UWBST'08 and Co-Chair at IEEE ICUWB'08.
