Derya Malak is an Assistant Professor (Maître de Conférence) in the Communication Systems Department at Eurecom, France. Previously, she was a tenure track Assistant Professor in the Department of ECSE at RPI between 2019-2021, and a Postdoctoral Associate at MIT between 2017-2019. She received her Ph.D. in ECE at the University of Texas at Austin in 2017, B.S. in Electrical and Electronics Engineering (EEE) with a minor in Physics at Middle East Technical University, in 2010, and M.S. in EEE at Koc University, in 2013. Dr. Malak has held visiting positions in INRIA and LINCS, Paris, and at Northeastern University, and summer internships at Huawei, Plano, TX, and Bell Labs, Murray Hill, NJ. Her expertise is in information theory, communication theory, and networking areas. She has developed novel distributed computation solutions, and wireless caching algorithms by capturing the confluence of storage, communication, and computation aspects.
Dr. Malak was awarded the Graduate School fellowship by UT Austin between 2013-2017. She was selected to participate in the Rising Stars Workshop for Women in EECS, MIT, in 2018. She received the best paper awards in WiOpt 2022 and WiOpt 2023. Her research has been funded by the ANR PEPR, NSF, the Rensselaer-IBM AI Research Collaboration, and the DARPA Dispersive Computing Programs. She is the recipient of the ERC Starting Grant 2023-2028 on computing nonlinear functions over communication networks (SENSIBILITÉ).