Academia
Majid is Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Utah Valley University. He teaches and researches applied AI, machine learning, and generative AI, including UVU work on drone RGB and thermal imaging for wind-turbine maintenance. He designed and teaches AI Entrepreneurship: Build and Launch AI-Powered Businesses. Students take AI from a real problem to a working business, end to end, in the industry they choose. Prior research includes the University of Utah One-U Responsible AI Initiative, a postdoc at the University of Pennsylvania (with Stanford and Johns Hopkins collaborations), and research-assistant work at Southern Illinois University Carbondale. More at LinkedIn and Google Scholar.
Industry
In Utah's Silicon Slopes tech community he consults with Clarion AI Partners on LLM and agent workflows, including when to use AI and when not to. Through Nexus AI Solutions he provides AI consulting and team training: Advisory engagements on how to adopt AI, plus instructor-led workshops and in-house team training. He is listed in the NVIDIA Certified Instructor Directory as a Deep Learning Institute Certified Instructor, and earlier did data-science work at Potentia Analytics.
Community
At the Gary R. Herbert Institute for Public Policy he collaborates with the Utah Office of Data Privacy and the Utah Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) on AI for data governance and privacy, and contributes to One-U RAI public and policy conversations. He is a 2026 AI Utah 100 honoree.
Education: PhD in Computer Science, Southern Illinois University Carbondale (2023); M.S. in Computer Science, Southern Illinois University Carbondale (2017); M.B.A., Islamic Azad University (2015). Selected papers live on the publications page and Google Scholar.