Faculty & Staff Profile
Salma Elmalaki
Associate Professor of Teaching
ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING & COMPUTER SCIENCE
Email: salma.elmalaki@uci.edu
Office Number: 949-824-8066
Address: UCI Samueli School of Engineering, Irvine, CA 92697
Zot Code: 2625
Office: 3428 Engineering Hall
Salma Elmalaki received her Ph.D. in electrical and computer engineering (ECE) from
the University of California, Los Angeles in 2018, where she was affiliated with the
Networked and Embedded Systems Lab. She received her B.Sc. degree (with distinction
and honors) in computer and systems engineering from Ain Shams University, Cairo,
Egypt, in 2008. Between August 2018 and August 2019, Elmalaki was a computational
methods engineer at Janelia Research Campus (HHMI). Before pursuing her Ph.D. at UCLA,
she spent three years as an R&D engineer in the embedded systems industry. Elmalaki
is the recipient of the Microsoft Research Fellowship (2016-2018), the Best Paper
Award from the International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (MobiCom)
in 2015, the Best Community Paper Award from the International Conference on Mobile
Computing and Networking (MobiCom) in 2015, and was selected as a Grace Hopper Scholar
to celebrate women in computing in 2016. She joined the UC Irvine Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
in October 2019.
Ph.D., Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California at Los Angeles,
2018
M.Sc., Electrical Engineering, University of California at Los Angeles, 2012
B.Sc., Computer and Systems Engineering, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt, 2008
Mobile computing, pervasive autonomous systems, personalized computing and internet-of-things (IoT)