He has extensive experience working as a computer scientist in both academic and industrial organizations. Malek conducts research in the field of software engineering, and to date his focus has spanned the areas of software design and architecture, smartphone and mobile computing, internet and web technologies, middleware, service oriented computing, autonomic computing, software dependability and security, and distributed and embedded systems. His research has produced more than 60 manuscripts that have been published in peer-reviewed scientific conferences and journals. Malek received his Ph.D. from the Computer Science Department at the University of Southern California. He has received numerous awards for his scientific contributions, including the National Science Foundation CAREER award and GMU Computer Science Department Outstanding Faculty Research award.