Dr. Pravir Malik is the founder and chief technologist at QIQuantum and the Forbes Technology Council group leader for Quantum Computing.

He is a systems thinker and approaches computation at the quantum level by seeing the layers of matter and life as a single system. This perception has resulted in the articulation of a fractal model connecting patterns at the cellular, atomic, and quantum particle levels to root patterns at the quantum level and has been elaborated through a ten-volume mathematical treatise on a cosmology of light, and numerous IEEE technical articles. Dr. Malik has a patent pending on a fourfold fractal-based quantum computer.

Dr. Malik’s quantum computational theory derives from a unified theory and mathematics of organization developed over a couple of decades. In all, he has penned 24 books related to this. In his doctoral dissertation on the mathematics of innovation in complex adaptive systems, he created a top-down in contrast to the already existing bottom-up mathematics for complex systems. Beyond its application in quantum systems, this mathematics has been practically applied to the development of pricing systems, emotional intelligence systems, and AI, and theoretically applied to the areas of genetics, pharmaceutical technology, nanotechnology, space sciences, and computational theory.

Dr. Malik has funded activities at QIQuantum through modeling behavioral, organizational, and other complex systems to help different stakeholders practically navigate and understand possible futures.

In his capacity as the Forbes Technology Council group leader for Quantum Computing, he led four quantum computing events in 2023 focused on alternative trajectories for quantum computation. The group that he helped found earlier in 2023 has now grown to 100 executives belonging to Forbes Council member companies. During the pandemic, he led a multi-part Organizational Sciences Certification program for Forbes, which was attended by executives from 250 companies. This certification was based on his views of complex systems, cosmology of light, and the importance of maturing teams through emotional intelligence. Dr. Malik believes that each individual is endowed with a sophisticated EQ radar-system that can give profound insight into how complex systems are changing. He developed a practical EQ-based App that has been used by the Indian Armed Forces, Zappos, Stanford University Medical Center, and Nucor, amongst other organizations, to help teams reach higher levels of self-directed operational maturity.

Previously, Dr. Malik has held a number of diverse leadership positions. These include being Head of Organizational Sciences and Head of Pricing Operations at Zappos.com - an eCommerce company, Managing Director of BSR - a global sustainability and environmental consulting company, and a member of the Founding Team of A.T. Kearney India - a global operations-focused management consulting company. He has a Ph.D. in Technology Management with a focus on Mathematics of Innovation in Complex Adaptive Systems from the University of Pretoria, an MBA from Northwestern University’s J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management, an MS in Computer Science from the University of Florida with a focus on AI, and a BSE in Computer Engineering from the Case Western Reserve University.