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RECENT INVITED TALKS

• "Distributed Computation over Networks”, the 11th SNOW Workshop, Levi, Finland, 8-10 April 2024.

• “Distributed Structured Matrix Multiplication”, ANR PEPR meeting, Grenoble, March 21, 2024.

• “Distributed Structured Matrix Multiplication”, ITA 2024, San Diego, CA, February 18 to 23, 2024.

• ”Distributed Computation over Networks”, PEPR Seminar – Foundations of Communication Networks, Jan. 26, 2024.

• "Distributed Computation over Networks", Women in Technology (organized by Markus Rupp), TU Wien, Oct. 2023.

• "Distributed Function Computation over Networks", LINCS seminar (invited by François Baccelli), Apr. 2023.

• "The Interplay of Spectral Efficiency, User Density, and Energy in Random Access Protocols", Workshop on Performance Guarantees in Wireless Networks" (organized by François Baccelli and Jean-Marie Gorce), Mar. 2023.

• "Distributed General Function Computation" in CCDWN (Wiopt 2022), Sep. 2022.

TUTORIALS

• "Fundamental Limits of Distributed Computation over Networks”, SPAWC Tutorial, Lucca, Italy, September 10, 2024.

BOOK CHAPTERS

• D. Malak, R. Yazicigil, M. Médard, X. Zhang, Y. Eldar, “Hardware-Limited Task-Based Quantization in Systems”, in “Women in Telecommunications”, Springer, Jun. 2023. 

• L. Liu, A. Solomon, S. Salamatian, D. Malak, M. Médard, “Neural Network Coding” in “Machine Learning and Wireless Communications”, Cambridge University Press, Aug. 2022.

JOURNAL PAPERS

Communications, Networks, Information Theory

• D. Malak, M. R. Deylam Salehi, B. Serbetci, P. Elia, ``Multi-Server Multi-Function Distributed Computation", ENTROPY (Special issue on ``Foundations of Goal-Oriented Semantic Communication in Intelligent Networks"), May 2024 (arXiv).

• D. Malak, "The Interplay of Spectral Efficiency, User Density, and Energy in Grant-based Access Protocols", IEEE Transactions on Communications, 2024 (arXiv).

• D. Malak, F. V. Mutlu, J. Zhang, E. M. Yeh, “Joint Power Control and Caching for Transmission Delay Minimization in Wireless Heterogeneous Networks”, IEEE Transactions on Networking, vol. 32, no. 2, pp. 1477-1492, April 2024 (pdf).

• D. Malak and M. Médard, "A Distributed Computationally Aware Quantizer Design via Hyper Binning", IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 71, pp. 76-91, Jan. 2023 (arXiv).

• F. Michel, A. Cohen, D. Malak, Q. De Coninck, M. Médard, Olivier Bonaventure “Enhancing QUIC with application-tailored reliability mechanisms”, IEEE Transactions on Networking, vol. 31, no. 2, pp. 606-619, Apr. 2023 (arXiv).

• D. Malak and M. Médard, "Function Load Balancing over Networks," IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Information Theory (Special issue on coded computing), vol. 2, no. 3, pp. 1041-1056, Aug. 2021 (arXiv). 

• D. Malak, M. Médard, and J. G. Andrews. "Spatial Concentration of Caching in Wireless Heterogeneous Networks," IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 20, no. 6, pp. 3397-3414, Jan. 2021 (arXiv).      

• A. Cohen, D. Malak, Vered B. Bracha, M. Médard, “Adaptive Causal Network Coding with Feedback,” IEEE Transactions on Communications,  vol. 68, no. 7, Jul. 2020 (arXiv).  

• D. Malak, M. Médard, E. M. Yeh, “Tiny Codes for Guaranteeable Delay,” IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (Special Issue on URLLC in Wireless Networks), vol. 37, no. 4, Apr. 2019 (arXiv) (codes).

• D. Malak, H. Huang, and J. G. Andrews, “Throughput Maximization for Delay-Sensitive Random Access Communication,” IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, Jun. 2018 (arXiv).

• D. Malak, M. Al-Shalash, and J. G. Andrews, “Optimizing The Spatial Content Caching Distribution for Device-to-Device Communications,” IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 17, no. 1, pp. 56-70, Jan. 2018 (arXiv). 

• D. Malak, M. Al-Shalash, and J. G. Andrews, “Optimizing the Content Caching Strategy to Maximize Coverage in Device-to-Device Communication Networks,” IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 64, no. 10, pp. 4365-4380, Oct. 2016 (arXiv). 

• D. Malak, H. S. Dhillon, and J. G. Andrews, “Optimizing Data Aggregation for Uplink Machine- to-Machine Communication Networks,” IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 64, no. 3, pp. 1274-1290, Mar. 2016 (arXiv). 

• M. Kocaoglu, D. Malak, O. B. Akan, "Fundamentals of Green Communications and Computing: Modeling and Simulation," IEEE Computer, vol. 45, no. 9, pp. 40-46, Sep. 2012. Cover Feature (pdf).

Biology

• D. Malak, O. B. Akan, "Communication Theoretical Understanding of Intra-body Nervous Nanonetworks," IEEE Communications Magazine, vol. 52, no. 4, pp. 129-135, Apr. 2014 (pdf). 

• D. Malak, M. Kocaoglu, O. B. Akan, "Communication Theoretic Analysis of Synaptic Channel for Cortical Neurons," Nano Communication Networks Journal (Elsevier), vol. 4, no. 3, pp. 131-141, Sep. 2013.

• D. Malak, O. B. Akan, "A Communication Theoretical Analysis of Synaptic Multiple-Access Channel in Hippocampal-Cortical Neurons," IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 61, no. 6, pp. 2457-2467, Jun. 2013 (pdf).

• B. D. Unluturk, D. Malak, O. B. Akan, "Rate-Delay Tradeoff with Network Coding in Molecular Nanonetworks," IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology, vol. 12, no. 2, pp. 120-128, Mar. 2013 (pdf).

• D. Malak, O. B. Akan, "Molecular Communication Nanonetworks inside Human Body," Nano Communication Networks Journal (Elsevier), vol.3, no.1, pp. 19-35, Mar. 2012 (pdf).

CONFERENCE PAPERS

Communications, Networks, Information Theory

• A. Tanha, D. Malak, ``The Influence of Placement on Transmission in Distributed Computing of Boolean Functions" in Proc., IEEE SPAWC, Lucca, Italy, Sep. 2024 (arXiv). 

• M. R. Deylam-Salehi, A. Tanha, D. Malak, "Structured Polynomial Codes" Recent Results Poster Session of the 2024 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), Athens, Greece, Jul. 2024.

• D. Malak, “Distributed Structured Matrix Multiplication”, in Proc.,  IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), Athens, Greece, Jul. 2024 (pdf).

• M. R. Deylam-Salehi, D. Malak, “An Achievable Low Complexity Encoding Scheme for Coloring Cyclic Graphs”, in Proc., the Fifty-Ninth Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing (IEEE Allerton), Monticello, IL, USA, Sep. 2023 (pdf).

• D. Malak, ``Distributed Computing of Functions of Structured Sources with Helper Side Information", in Proc., IEEE SPAWC, Shanghai, China, Sep. 2023 (arXiv).

• D. Malak, Y. Li, S. Ioannidis, E. Yeh, M. Médard, ``Joint Optimization of Storage and Transmission via Coding Traffic Flows for Content Distribution", in Proc., IEEE WiOpt, Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore, Aug. 2023 (Best Paper Award, pdf, codes thanks to Yuanyuan Li, news).

• D. Malak, ``Weighted Graph Coloring for Quantized Computing", in Proc., IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), Taipei, Taiwan, Jun. 2023 (pdf).

• S. Chen, D. Malak, A. Abouzeid, "Spatially Correlated Placement Policies for Wireless Content Caching Networks", in Proc. IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), Rome, Italy, May 2023 (pdf).

• D. Malak, “Fractional graph coloring for functional compression with side information”, in Proc. IEEE Information Theory Workshop (ITW), Mumbai, India, Nov. 2022 (arXiv).

• D. Malak, “Throughput and Energy Tradeoffs for Retransmission-based Random Access Protocols”, in Proc. IEEE WiOpt, Sep. 2022, Turin, Italy (Best Paper Award, pdf).

• A. Anand, G. De Veciana, D. Malak, A. Elezabi, A. Venkatakrishnan, “Opportunistic Overlapping: Joint Scheduling of Uplink URLLC/eMBB Traffic in NOMA based Wireless Systems”, in Proc. IEEE Wiopt, Oct. 2021 (pdf).

• D. Malak, F. V. Mutlu, J. Zhang, E. M. Yeh, “Transmission Delay Minimization via Joint Power Control and Caching in Wireless Heterogeneous Networks,” in Proc. IEEE Wiopt, Oct. 2021. (invited paper) (pdf).

• D. Malak, A. Cohen, M. Médard, "How to Distribute Computation in Networks", in Proc. IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM), Toronto, Canada, Jul. 2020 (arXiv).

• A. Schneuwly, D. Malak, M. Médard, "Discrete Water Filling Multi-Path Packet Scheduling ", in Proc. IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), Los Angeles, CA, Jun. 2020 (pdf).

• D. Malak, M. Médard, "Hyper Binning for Distributed Function Coding ", in Proc.  IEEE International Workshop on Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Communications (SPAWC), Atlanta, GA, May 2020 (pdf).

• L. Liu, D. Malak, M. Médard, “Guesswork for Machine Translation,” in Proc. IEEE Information Theory Workshop (ITW), Aug. 2019 (pdf). 

• D. Malak, M. Médard, E. M. Yeh, “Spatial Soft-Core Caching,” in Proc. IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), Paris, France, Jul. 2019 (arXiv).  

• D. Malak, O. Elishco, M. Médard, and E. M. Yeh, “Throughput and Delay Analysis for Coded ARQ,” in Proc. IEEE International Symposium on Modeling and Optimization in Mobile, Ad Hoc and Wireless Networks (WiOpt), Avignon, France, Jun. 2019 (talk slides). 

• P. J. Braun, D. Malak, M. Médard, P. Ekler, “Enabling Multi-Source Coded Downloads,” in Proc. IEEE International Conference on Edge Computing (EDGE), Milan, Italy, Jul. 2019 (short paper). 

• P. J. Braun, D. Malak, M. Médard, P. Ekler, “Multi-Source Coded Downloads,” in Proc. IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), Shanghai, China, May 2019. 

• D. Malak, A. Schneuwly, M. Médard, E. M. Yeh, “Delay-Aware Coding in Multi-Hop Line Networks,” in Proc. IEEE World Forum on Internet of Things (WF-IoT),  Limerick, Ireland, Apr. 2019. 

• D. Malak, M. Médard, and E. M. Yeh, “ARQ with Cumulative Feedback to Compensate for Burst Errors,” in Proc. IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM), Abu Dhabi, UAE, Dec. 2018.

• D. Malak, M. Al-Shalash, and J. G. Andrews, “A Distributed Auction Policy for User Association in Device-to-Device Caching Networks,” in Proc. IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor, and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC), Montreal, Canada, Oct. 2017. 

• D. Malak, H. Huang, and J. G. Andrews , “Fundamental Limits of Random Access Communication with Retransmissions,” in Proc. IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), Paris, France, May 2017. 

• D. Malak, M. Al-Shalash, and J. G. Andrews, “Optimizing The Spatial Content Caching Distribution for Device-to-Device Communications,” in Proc. IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), Barcelona, Spain, Jul. 2016. 

• D. Malak, H. S. Dhillon, and J. G. Andrews, “Modeling Uplink Coverage and Rate with Aggregation in Machine-to-Machine Communication,” in Proc. IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, May. 2016. 

• D. Malak, M. Al-Shalash, "Device-to-Device Content Distribution: Optimal Caching Strategies and Performance Bounds," in Proc. IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC) Workshops, London, UK, Jun. 2015.

• D. Malak, M. Al-Shalash, "Optimal caching for device-to-device content distribution in 5G networks," in Proc.  IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM) Workshops - Emerging Technologies for 5G Wireless Cellular Networks, Austin, TX, Dec. 2014.

Biology

• D. Malak, H. Ramezani, M. Kocaoglu, O. B. Akan, “Diversity in Diffusion-Based Molecular Communication Channel with Drift,” in Proc. IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, May. 2016. 

• D. Malak, O. B. Akan, "Synaptic Interference Channel", in Proc. IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC) Workshops, Budapest, Hungary, Jun. 2013.

• M. Kocaoglu, D. Malak, "On the Node Density Limits and Rate-Delay-Energy Tradeoffs in Ad Hoc Nanonetworks with Minimum Energy Coding," in Proc. IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC) Workshops, Ottawa, Canada, Jun. 2012 (pdf).

• M. Kuscu, D. Malak, O. B. Akan, "An Information Theoretical Analysis of Broadcast Networks and Channel Routing for FRET-based Nanoscale Communications," in Proc. IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC) Workshops, Ottawa, Canada, Jun. 2012 (pdf).

PATENT APPLICATIONS

• A. Cohen, D. Malak, M. Médard, ``Adaptive causal network coding with feedback",  US Patent 11,575,777 (US Patent App. 18/064,540), Feb. 2023.

• A. Schneuwly, D. Malak, M. Médard, E. Telatar, “Network Coded Multipath System and Related Techniques”, (US Patent App. 16/758,210), Oct. 2020.  

THESIS/PROPOSAL

• D. Malak, "Modeling and Analyzing Device-to-Device Content Distribution in Cellular Networks," Ph.D. Dissertation, The University of Texas at Austin, Aug. 2017 (UT Repository).

• D. Malak, "Modeling and Analyzing Device-to-Device Content Distribution in Cellular Networks," Ph.D. Qualifying Proposal, The University of Texas at Austin, May 2016.  

• D. Malak, "Intra-Body Molecular Communications: A Theoretical Study on Synaptic Multiple-Access Channel," M.Sc. Thesis, Koc University, Istanbul, Turkey, Feb. 2013.