Avinash obtained his BE (Hons I) and PhD from the University of Auckland in 2010. He then worked as a post-doctoral fellow at INRIA Grenoble, the French Institute for Research in Computer Science and Automation. His work as a post-doctoral fellow continued at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland in the department of computer science and statistics, after which he then took a role as a research scientist at IBM Research. He joined the University of Auckland in May 2013.

Distinctions/Honours:
Jim and Hazel D Lord fellowship
INRIA Post-doctoral Fellowship
National Science Foundation, Ireland & IBM Post-doctoral Fellowship

Academic citizenship (service):

Computer systems engineering, undergraduate programme director.

Computer systems engineering, postgraduate department advisor.

Health and safety commitee rep (ECSE) 2015-2016

Committee/Professional groups/Services:
IEEE Member
IEEE NZ North section, Computer Society chapter Chair' 2019-2024.

Technical Program Commitee (TPC) member:

CASES'2020-2025
Euromicro DSD'2019 (http://dsd-seaa2019.csd.auth.gr/ (http://dsd-seaa2019.csd.auth.gr/))
ICONS'2019 (http://www.iaria.org/conferences2019/ComICONS19.html (http://www.iaria.org/conferences2019/ComICONS19.html))
RTSS'2018 (http://2018.rtss.org/ (http://2018.rtss.org/))
Euromicro DSD'2018 (http://dsd-seaa2018.fit.cvut.cz/dsd/ (http://dsd-seaa2018.fit.cvut.cz/dsd/))
WSC'2018 (http://meetings2.informs.org/wordpress/wsc2018/ (http://meetings2.informs.org/wordpress/wsc2018/))

Qualifications:
PhD, BE (Hons First class)

Publication list: http://dblp.uni-trier.de/pers/hd/m/Malik:Avinash (http://dblp.uni-trier.de/pers/hd/m/Malik:Avinash)