Peer-Reviewed Conferences
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NEW: accepted to appear) Ismat Jarin, Yu Duan, Rahmadi Trimananda, Hao Cui, Salma Elmalaki, Athina Markopoulou, “BehaVR: User Identification Based on VR Sensor Data,” The 25th Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium (PETS 2025), July 2025, arXiv:2202.12872
Tianyu Zhao, Salma Elmalaki, “FinA: Fairness of Adverse Effects in Decision-Making of Human-Cyber-Physical-System,” The 15th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Cyber-Physical Systems (ICCPS’24) Hong Kong May 13-16, 2024 as part of the CPS-IoT Week 2024, arXiv:2311.03468 (acceptance rate 28%)
Tianyu Zhao, Mojtaba Taherisadr, Salma Elmalaki, “FAIRO: Fairness-aware Sequential Decision Making for Human-in-the-Loop CPS,” The 15th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Cyber-Physical Systems (ICCPS’24) Hong Kong May 13-16, 2024 as part of the CPS-IoT Week 2024, arXiv:2307.05857 (acceptance rate 28%)
Hieu Le, Salma Elmalaki, Athina Markopoulou, and Zubair Shafiq, “AutoFR: Automated Filter Rule Generation for Adblocking,” The 32nd USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Security ’23 Fall), Anaheim, CA, August 2023. (Its code and dataset received all USENIX artifact badges for Available, Functional, and Reproduced) (arXiv:2202.12872) (acceptance rate 29%)
Mojtaba Taherisadr, Stelios Stavroulakis, and Salma Elmalaki, “adaParl: Adaptive Privacy-Aware Reinforcement Learning for Sequential-Decision Making Human-in-the-Loop Systems,” The 8th ACM/IEEE Conference on Internet of Things Design and Implementation – IoTDI’23 (CPS-IoT week), San Antonio, TX, May 2023 (acceptance rate= 29%)
Salma Elmalaki, “MAConAuto: Framework for Mobile-Assisted Human-in-the-Loop Automotive System,” The 33rd IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium (IV’22), Aachen, Germany, June 2022.
Salma Elmalaki, “FaiR-IoT: Fairness-aware Human-in-the-Loop Reinforcement Learning for Harnessing Human Variability in Personalized IoT,” The 6th ACM/IEEE Conference on Internet of Things Design and Implementation (IoTDI’21), also part of CPS-IoT Week, Virtual, May 2021. (acceptance rate= 25%).
Salma Elmalaki, Berken Utku Demirel, Mojtaba Taherisadr, Sara Stern-Nezer, Jack J. Lin, and Mohammad Al Faruque, “Towards Internet-of-Things for Wearable Neurotechnology,” The 22nd International Symposium on Quality Electronic Design (ISQED’21), Virtual, April 2021.
Salma Elmalaki, Debbie Tsai, and Mani Srivastava, “Sentio: Driver-in-the-Loop Forward Collision Warning Using Multisample Reinforcement Learning,” 16th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys’18), Shenzhen, China, November 2018 (acceptance rate=15%).
🏆 Salma Elmalaki, Lucas Wanner, and Mani Srivastava, “CAreDroid: Adaptation Framework for Android Context-Aware Applications,” The 21st Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (MobiCom’15), Paris, France, September 2015 (Best paper award) (Best community paper award) (acceptance rate=18%).
Ankur Sharma, Joseph Sloan, Salma Elmalaki, Lucas Wanner, Mani B Srivastava, and Puneet Gupta, “Towards Analyzing and Improving Robustness of Software Applications to Intermittent and Permanent Faults in Hardware,” ICCAD: International Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD) 2013, Asheville, USA, October 2013.
Lucas Wanner, Salma Elmalaki, Liangzhen Lai, Puneet Gupta, and Mani Srivastava, “VarEMU: An Emulation Testbed for Variability-Aware Software,” Proceedings of the International Conference on Hardware/Software Codesign and System Synthesis (CODES+ISSS) Part of Embedded System Week (ESWeek), Montreal, QC, Canada, September 2013 (acceptance rate=27.9%).
Journals, Articles, and Newsletters
Hieu Le, Salma Elmalaki, Athina Markopoulou, and Zubair Shafiq, “AutoFR: Automated Filter Rule Generation for Adblocking,” ACM Transactions on Privacy and Security (ACM TOPS), Nov 2024
Mojtaba Taherisadr, Mohammad Abdullah Al Faruque, and Salma Elmalaki, “ERUDITE: Human-in-the-Loop IoT for an Adaptive Personalized Learning System,” IEEE IoT Journal, Jan 2024 (impact factor 11.1).
Mojtaba Taherisadr, Berken Utku Demirel, Mohammad Abdullah Al Faruque, and Salma Elmalaki, “Future of Smart Classroom in the Era of Wearable Neurotechnology,” IEEE Bio-inspired Computing STC Newsletter, Volume 1, Issue 1, October 2021. (arXiv:2110.11475)
🏆 Salma Elmalaki, Lucas Wanner, and Mani Srivastava, “Adaptation Framework for Android Context-Aware Applications,” GetMobile: Mobile Computing and Communications, Volume 20, Issue 2, April 2016. (Selected for Research Highlight)
Workshops
(NEW: accepted to appear) Mahmoud Srewa, Tianyu Zhao, Salma Elmalaki, “PluralLLM: Pluralistic Alignment in LLMs via Federated Learning,” The 3rd International Workshop on Human-Centered Sensing, Modeling, and Intelligent Systems (HumanSys’25) Co-located with CPS-IoT Week 2025 (arXiv:2503.09925) – [Code available]
(NEW: accepted to appear) Diana Romero, Fatima Anwar, Salma Elmalaki, “MoCoMR: A Collaborative MR Simulator with Individual Behavior Modeling,” The 3rd International Workshop on Human-Centered Sensing, Modeling, and Intelligent Systems (HumanSys’25) Co-located with CPS-IoT Week 2025 (arXiv:2503.09874)
Yixin Zhang, Tianyu Zhao, Salma Elmalaki, “Towards Fairness-aware Crowd Management System and Surge Prevention in Smart Cities,” The 6th Workshop on Design Automation for CPS and IoT (DESTION’24), Hong Kong May 13-16, 2024 as part of the CPS-IoT Week 2024. (Code with Netlogo is available) (Code with Vadere is available) arXiv:2311.02228
🏆 Armand Ahadi-Sarkani, and Salma Elmalaki, “ADAS-RL: Adaptive Vector Scaling Reinforcement Learning For Human-in-the-Loop Lane Departure Warning,” The 1st International Workshop on Cyber-Physical-Human System Design and Implementation (CPHS’21), also part of CPS-IoT Week, Virtual, May 2021 (First Place – Gold Medal ACM SIGBED SRC’21). (Code is available)
Salma Elmalaki, Bo-Jhang Ho, Moustafa Alzantot, Yasser Shoukry, and Mani Srivastava, “SpyCon: Adaptation Based Spyware in Human-in-the-Loop IoT,” IEEE Workshop on the Internet of Safe Things (SafeThings’19), affiliated with the IEEE Security & Privacy (Oakland’19), San Francisco, California, USA, May 2019.
Salma Elmalaki, Yasser Shoukry, and Mani Srivastava, “Internet of Personalized and Autonomous Things (IoPAT): Smart Homes Case Study,” ACM Workshop on Smart Cities and Fog Computing (CitiFog’18), affiliated with ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys’18), Shenzhen, China, November 2018 (invited paper).
Salma Elmalaki, Mark Gottsho, Puneet Gupta, and Mani Srivastava, “A Case for Battery Charging-Aware Power Management and Deferrable Task Scheduling in Smartphones,” USENIX 6th Workshop on Power-Aware Computing and Systems (HotPower’14), affiliated with USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI’14), Colorado, USA, October 2014 (acceptance rate=34%).
Preprints
(NEW: arXiv) Yasra Chandio, Diana Romero, Salma Elmalaki, Fatima Anwar, “What Sensors See, What People Feel: Exploring Subjective Collaboration Perception in Mixed Reality,” Apr 2025, arXiv:2504.16373
(NEW: arXiv) Tianyu Zhao, Mahmoud Srewa, Salma Elmalaki, “FinP: Fairness-in-Privacy in Federated Learning by Addressing Disparities in Privacy Risk,” Feb 2025, arXiv:2502.17748
(NEW: arXiv) Hieu Le, Salma Elmalaki, Zubair Shafiq, Athina Markopoulou, “AutoLike: Auditing Social Media Recommendations through User Interactions“, Feb 2025, arXiv:2502.08933
(NEW: arXiv) Diana Romero, Yasra Chandio, Fatima Anwar, Salma Elmalaki, “GroupBeaMR: Analyzing Collaborative Group Behavior in Mixed Reality Through Passive Sensing and Sociometry,” Feb 2025, arXiv:2411.05258
(NEW: arXiv) Diana Romero, Ruchi Patel, Athina Markopoulou, Salma Elmalaki, “GaitGuard: Towards Private Gait in Mixed Reality,” Jan 2025, arXiv:2312.04470
Mojtaba Taherisadr, Salma Elmalaki, “PEaRL: Personalized Privacy of Human-Centric Systems using Early-Exit Reinforcement Learning,” Nov 2024, arXiv:2403.05864
Salma Elmalaki, Bo-Jhang Ho, Moustafa Alzantot, Yasser Shoukry, and Mani Srivastava, “VindiCo: Privacy Safeguard Against Adaptation Based Spyware in Human-in-the-Loop IoT,” February 2022, arXiv:2202.01348