About Sam Malek
Sam Malek is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at George Mason University. He has extensive expertise in software engineering, and has worked on software design and architecture, smartphone and mobile applications, internet and web technologies, middleware-based systems, service-oriented systems, autonomic computing systems, analysis of software dependability and security, and distributed and embedded systems.
Services
Prof. Malek provides expert witness and consulting services in the following areas:
- - Software intellectual property (IP)
- - Patent analysis for infringement and validity
- - Copyright infringement analysis
- - Trade secret analysis
- - Software design/source code audit and review
- - Review of technical documents
- - Breach-of-contract and non-performance claims
- - Expert witness testimony at deposition and trial
Areas of Expertise
- Computer
- Computer Crime
- Computer Failure
- Computer Forensics
- Computer Investigations
- Copyright
- Data Communication
- Data Recovery
- Engineering
- Intellectual Property
- Internet Development
- Internet Marketing
- Legal Software
- Litigation
- Mobile Applications
- Mobile Devices
- Mobile Software
- Programming
- Security
- Security Management
- Software
- Software Architecture
- Software Development
- Software Failure
- Technology
- Telecommunications
- Trade Secrets
- Trademark
- Website Design
- Websites
- Wireless Communication
Additional Expertise:
Distributed Software, Android, Java.
Profile
Sam Malek is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at George Mason University (GMU). He is also the director of GMU’s Software Design and Analysis Laboratory, a faculty associate of GMU’s C4I Center, and a member of DARPA’s Computer Science Study Panel. He has managed numerous research projects, sponsored by both government and private sector. Prior to his academic appointment at GMU, he worked as a computer scientist in a variety of roles in several 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 75 manuscripts that have been published in peer-reviewed scientific conferences and journals. Malek frequently serves as organizer, program committee member, and speaker at premier scientific gatherings and conferences. He is currently an associate editor of the Springer Journal of Computing.
Malek received his Ph.D. from the Computer Science Department at the University of Southern California. He also received an M.S. degree in Computer Science from the University of Southern California, and a B.S. degree in Information and Computer Science from the University of California Irvine. 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. He is a member of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), ACM Special Interest Group on Software Engineering (SIGSOFT), and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).
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