Anik Mallik

Assistant Professor

Name

Contact Info

Phone:
410-704-4770
Office:
YR-463
Email:
amallik@towson.edu

Education

Ph.D., Electrical Engineering, The University of North Carolina at Charlotte

M.B.A., Marketing, Institute of Business Administration, The University of Dhaka

B.Sc., Electronics and Communication Engineering, Khulna University of Engineering and Technology

Areas of Expertise

Energy-efficient AI

Mobility in Edge Computing

Edge-assisted AR/MR/XR

Edge-Quantum Systems

Funded Projects:

  • National Science Foundation, Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU); PI: Anik Mallik; Award amount: $10,000; Project duration: June 2026 – May 2027
  • National Science Foundation, CRII: CNS: “Bringing energy-efficiency in edge-supported systems for delay-sensitive real-time cooperative mobile augmented reality” (Award No.: 2451736); PI: Anik Mallik; Award No.: 2451736; Award amount: $149,998; Project duration: July 2025 – June 202

Selected Publications and Presentations:

  • Lawrence Oyaniyi, Anik Mallik, Moinul Hossain, and Wei Yu, “Fingerprinting AI applications and phases in edge-assisted distributed learning and inference,” in Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), Glasgow, Scotland, 2026.
  • Md Nahid Hasan Shuvo, Moinul Hossain, Anik Mallik, Jeffrey Twigg, and Fikadu Dagefu, “FLARE: A wireless side-channel fingerprinting attack on federated learning,” in Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM), Tokyo, Japan, 2026.
  • Krishna Sruthi Velaga, Anik Mallik, and Yifan Guo, “How energy is consumed by LLM-enabled smart home assistant systems on low-cost devices: An empirical study,” in Proceedings of IEEE Consumer Communications & Networking Conference (CCNC), Las Vegas, NV, 2026.
  • Xiaolong Tu, Anik Mallik, Haoxin Wang, and Jiang Xie, “AIEnergy: An energy benchmark for AI-empowered mobile and IoT devices,” International Telecommunication Union (ITU) Journal on Future and Evolving Technologies, vol. 6, no. 2, pp. 183-197, 2025.

  • Anik Mallik, Jiang Xie, and Zhu Han, "A performance analysis modeling framework for edge computing-enabled extended reality applications in high-mobility wireless networks," in Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS), Jersey City, NJ, 2024.

  • Anik Mallik, Dawei Chen, Kyungtae Han, Jiang Xie, and Zhu Han, "Unleashing the true power of Age-of-Information: Service aggregation in connected and autonomous vehicles,'' in Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), Denver, CO, 2024.