I am an assistant professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of California, Irvine, where I direct the Pervasive Autonomy Lab. Before joining UCI, I spent one year as a computational methods researcher at Janelia Research Campus, the main research campus for Howard Hughes Medical Institute. I received my Ph.D. from the Electrical Engineering Department at the University of California, Los Angeles, in 2018 with Prof. Mani Srivastava. My research goal is to weave human factors into the fabric of cyber-physical systems, focusing on performance, privacy, reliability, fairness, and adaptability. My research draws on tools from embedded systems, human modeling, machine learning, and mobile computing. I am the recipient of the MobiCom Best Paper Award and Best Community Paper Award. I received the Early Career Teaching Excellence Award from the UCI Samueli School of Engineering (SSoE) in 2023 and the Professor of the Year award from the Engineering Student Council (esc) in 2023. I am the recipient of the NSF CRII and the NSF CAREER awards.
Salma Elmalaki
Assistant Professor
Office: EH 3428
Pervasive Autonomy Lab: EH 4111
949-824-8066
salma dot elmalaki at uci dot edu
Key Research Area
Cyber-Human-Physical Systems, Pervasive autonomous IoT, Machine Learning, and Designing personalized context-aware systems with a particular focus on performance, privacy, reliability, fairness, and adaptability. My research draws on tools from embedded systems, human modeling, machine learning, and mobile computing.
Awards
The NSF CAREER Award. 2024-2028
Elmalaki’s research entitled, “Psychology-aware Human-in-the-Loop Cyber-Physical-System (HCPS): Methodologies, Algorithms, and Deployment, ” awarded the NSF CAREER award.
The Mexico Graduate Research & Education Program award for project title, “Data Analysis and Human Activity Modelling for Electricity and Solar Photovoltaic Electricity Generation”- 2023
Early Career Teaching Excellence Award – 2023
UCI Samueli School of Engineering (SSoE)
Professor of the Year Award – 2023
From the Engineering Student Council (esc) for the EECS Department
The UCI Dr. De. Gallow Professor of the Year Award – Honorable Mention 2022
NSF CRII Award. 2021-2023
Elmalaki’s research entitled “Society-in-the-Loop Personalized Computing” was awarded the NSF CISE CRII award beginning June 15, 2021
Advisee Armand Ahadi-Sarkani is the Winner of the ACM SIGBED Student Research Competition (undergraduate category) – Gold Medal Award (SRC’21)
Academic Senate Council on Research, Computing, and Libraries (CORCL) Award, 2020, 2021, 2022
HSSoE Research, UCI MERI Seed Fund Award, Collaborative, 2020
Multidisciplinary Engineering Research Initiative, SSoE, UCI
Microsoft Research Ph.D. Fellowship, 2016-2018
Grace Hopper Celebration (GHC) Scholarship, 2018
Nominated, Outstanding Teaching Assistant award, 2016
Electrical Engineering Department, UCLA
Honorable Mention Award, 2016
Microsoft Research Student Summit on Mobility, Systems, and Networking
Best Paper Award, MobiCom – 2015
International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (MobiCom’15)
Best Community Paper Award, MobiCom – 2015
International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (MobiCom’15)
Education
Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of California, Los Angeles, 2018
Dissertation: System Software Mechanism for Pervasive and Autonomous Computing.
M.S. in Electrical Engineering
University of California, Los Angeles, 2014
Thesis: Context-Aware Runtime Adaptation for Android OS.
B.Sc. in Computer and Systems Engineering
Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt, 2008
Funding
