Sam Malek is a Professor in the School of Information and Computer Sciences at the University of California at Irvine and a member of the Informatics Department. He is the director of Software Engineering and Analysis Laboratory and a member of DARPA’s Computer Science Study Panel.
He was previously an Associate Professor in the Computer Science Department at George Mason University (GMU), where he was the director of GMU’s Software Design and Analysis Laboratory.
Prior to his academic appointments, Sam Malek worked as a software engineer in a variety of roles and on the development of numerous industrial software systems. Malek has experience with testifying in both jury trial and deposition as an expert witness in the fields of computer science and software engineering. He has served as a computer science expert witness and drafted numerous reports in high-stakes intellectual property infringement, breach-of-contract, and software dispute matters.
As a renowned computer science expert, he has published on a variety of topics, served on the panel of many scientific boards and journals, and frequently spoken at scientific gatherings.