I am looking for motivated students interested in creating software tools for programming education
(or education in general). You can work with me as part of your MENG 2500, ESC 499, ECE 499 or as an
undergraduate summer research intern. If you are interested, please email me your resume and
transcript, and let me know why you want to work with me.
2024
February 2024 ‐ Our work was accepted to IEEE INFOCOM 2024 Workshop on Distributed
Machine Learning and Fog Networks (FOGML).
2023
September 2023 ‐ She launched Khufu: Object-Oriented Programming using
C++, a work-in-progress book tailored for ECE 244: Programming Fundamentals students at the University of Toronto
and
others interested in learning object-oriented programming in C++.
May 2023 ‐ She was honored to receive the ECE Departmental
Teaching Award for APS 105: Computer Fundamentals taught in Winter 2023 Term.
January 2023 ‐ Our work was accepted to
IEEE ICC 2023.
January 2023 ‐ She officially joined the University of Toronto.
You may refer to her
welcome interview.
January 2023 ‐ We published Snefru: Learning Programming with C
on the web. We appreciate feedback and contributions from the public via email, GitHub
issues or pull requests. The resource is tailored
for students taking APS105: Computer Fundamentals at the University of Toronto and
first-time programmers learning C.
2022
November 2022 ‐ She defended her Ph.D. thesis successfully and
was
announced Dr. Emara!
June 2022 ‐ Our work was accepted to IEEE
Transactions on Network
Science and Engineering 2022.
May 2022 ‐ She happily signed "the" offer to join ECE faculty at
the
University of Toronto as an Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream in Winter 2023.
May 2022 ‐ She was honored to receive the ECE Departmental
Teaching
Award for APS 105: Computer Fundamentals taught in Winter 2022 Term.
May 2022 ‐ She was honored to receive the ECE Departmental
Teaching
Assistant Award for ECE 244: Programming Fundamentals taught in Fall 2021 Term.
April 2022 ‐ Our work was accepted
in
IEEE/ACM IWQoS 2022.
January 2022 ‐ She got appointed as a Course Instructor for APS
105:
Computer Fundamentals (in C) for Winter 2022 at the University of Toronto.
2021
December 2021 ‐ We filed a US Patent. It is Salma's first
Patent
Application.
March 2021 ‐ Our work was accepted in IEEE
Transactions on Multimedia 2021.
2020
December 2020 ‐ She passed her qualifying exam at University of
Toronto.
2019
December 2019 ‐ Our work was accepted in IEEE
INFOCOM 2020.
September 2019 ‐ She transferred to the direct Ph.D. program at
the
University of Toronto.
July 2019 ‐ Our work was accepted in ACM
Multimedia 2019.
2018
December 2018 ‐ She was awarded Vector Scholarship in Artificial
Intelligence
[UofT media].
June 2018 ‐ Our first undergrad research paper was accepted
in
IEEE 23rd International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation
(ETFA).
June 2018 ‐ She was awarded President's Cup and the Mohamed
EL Beleidy Academic Award from the American University in
Cairo.
May 2018 ‐ She accepted the offer to join University of Toronto
as
an
M.A.Sc. student.