[2] He is a professor and former head of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Jadavpur University, Kolkata, West Bengal, India.

[3][4] He has worked in many countries including India, US, Germany, France, Australia, China, Italy, Poland, Mexico, Slovenia and Hungary.

Maulik and his research group have contributed towards the development of science and engineering especially in the areas of AI in health care,[12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19] Bioinformatics,[20][21][22][23][24][25][26] intelligent transport system,[27][28] supervised and unsupervised machine learning,[29][30][31][32][33][34] and social and biological networks.

His research interests include data science, machine learning, bioinformatics, and the Internet of things.

[48] "DBLP: Ujjwal Maulik". Multiobjective Optimization Algorithms for Bioinformatics, Springer, Germany, 2024 [49] Quantum Inspired Meta-heuristic for Image Analysis, Wiley, UK, 2019 [50] Soft Computing - Application to Image and Multimedia Data, Springer, Germany, 2013 [51] Multiobjective Genetic Algorithms for Clustering: Applications in Data Mining and Bioinformatics, Springer, Germany, 2011 [52]