Webinar: Digital Forensics in the Era of Big Data
National Competence Centres for HPC in Slovakia, Austria, and the Czech Republic invite you to an expert session on how high-performance computing (HPC) can support digital forensics in modern large-scale environments. The webinar is hosted by the National Competence Centre for HPC in Slovakia.
Handling digital forensics in large-scale environments demands immense computational resources. This session will demonstrate how HPC accelerates the forensic analysis of cyber incidents, supports large dataset examination, and enables faster threat identification. Use cases from industry and public sector investigations will be discussed.
Speaker: Dr. Mazhar Malik UWE Bristol, Faculty of Environment and Technology – Computer Science and Creative Technologies
Date: 5 May, 2025, 11:00 CEST
Venue: online
Registration
Join us for the talk: Digital Forensics in the Era of Big Data: Leveraging HPC for Incident Analysis
Registered participants will receive an invitation to the MS Teams meeting a few days before the event.
About the Speaker
Dr. Mazhar Malik is Associate Director and Head of Intelligent Systems at the School of Computing and Creative Technologies, where he has served since September 2022. He has extensive experience in IoT, cybersecurity, digital forensics, and artificial intelligence. Previously, he worked as Director for apprenticeship in Cyber Security and Digital Forensics at Cardiff Metropolitan University, and as Associate Professor and Head of Computing and IT at the Global College of Engineering and Technology (GCET) in Oman. From 2015 to 2022, he led academic programmes including MSc Data Science, BSc Computer Security and Forensics, and BSc Computer Science with a focus on smart devices and AI, in collaboration with UWE-Bristol. He also contributes to programme accreditation with the British Computer Society and other international agencies. Dr. Malik is a Fellow of the British Computer Society and a Certified Information Technology Professional. He serves on editorial boards of several international journals and has chaired the Asia Pacific International Conference on Emerging Engineering since 2017. He also supervises doctoral research in cybersecurity and data analytics.
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