AI Engineer and Researcher with 5+ years of experience across academic research and applied AI development, specialising in NLP, computer vision, and large language models with a strong focus on responsible AI and production deployment.

• 🔬 Working on production AI systems — RAG, agentic pipelines, and LLM fine-tuning
• 🎓 MSc Artificial Intelligence (Distinction) · Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (AFHEA)
• 📄 Published research in NLP and applied machine learning
• 🌱 Currently exploring agentic AI, evaluation frameworks, and multimodal models
• 💬 Ask me about LLMs, RAG, agentic AI, fine-tuning, and computer vision

Focus areas: LLMs · RAG · Agentic AI · Fine-tuning · Responsible AI & Bias Evaluation · Object Detection · Image Segmentation · Generative AI

• Alameer, A., Jahromi, H.K., Afzal, Z., Malik, M., Morphy, S., & Mansouri, T. (2025). A comparative analysis of state-of-the-art speech-to-text models for court applications. CCIS, vol. 2683, Springer.
• Oldham, L., et al. including Malik, M. (2026). Understanding contest skill to reduce the welfare costs of aggression. Biology Letters, 22(4).