Aitian Ma (马艾田)

Ph.D. Candidate in Computer Science

Knight Foundation School of Computing and Information Sciences

Florida International University

📍 Miami, FL, USA

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🎯 About Me

Seeking Faculty & Research Scientist Positions in AIoT, Wireless Sensing, and Edge Learning Systems

I am a Ph.D. candidate at Florida International University, advised by Dr. Mo Sha. My research focuses on making wireless sensing and communication systems more reliable, efficient, and intelligent through AIoT and edge learning. My AI-related work is co-advised by Dr. Dongsheng Luo.

Before joining FIU, I earned my M.S. from Beijing University of Technology and worked as a System Administrator & Instructor at the Chinese Academy of Sciences (2013–2021).

🔬 Research Interests

🌐 Reliable and Adaptive Wireless Sensing
🤖 Resource-Efficient Edge Learning
📡 AI for Internet of Things (AIoT)
🔧 Intelligent Cyber-Physical Systems

📰 News

November 2025
Paper Our paper "MMFNet: Multi-Scale Frequency Masking Neural Network for Time Series Forecasting" has been accepted to SAC'26.

📚 Publications

11

Conference Papers

1

Journal Paper

2

Best Paper Awards

🎓 Conference Papers

📝 Under Review

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🔷 LLM-Based Noise-Aware Domain Adaptation Agent for Industrial Wireless Mesh Network Configuration
Aitian Ma, Mo Sha
📅 Under Review
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🔷 Zero-shot Industrial Wireless Mesh Network Configuration via Dual-Mind LLMs
Aitian Ma, Dongsheng Luo, Ali Maatouk (Yale), Rex Ying (Yale), Mo Sha
📅 Under Review
Under Review
🔷 MixLinear: Extreme Low Resource Multivariate Time Series Forecasting with 0.1 K Parameters
Aitian Ma, Dongsheng Luo, Mo Sha
📅 Under Review

✅ Published

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SAC 2026
Aitian Ma, Dongsheng Luo, Mo Sha
📅 Proceedings of the 41st ACM/SIGAPP Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC'26)
📊 Acceptance Ratio: 26/104 = 25%
ICMLA 2025
Dongyi Ma (UCL), Aitian Ma (co-first author), Sirui Luo (UCL), Martin de Jode (UCL), Andrew Hudson-Smith (UCL), Mo Sha
📅 IEEE ICMLA, Special Session on Deep Learning and Applications, December 2025
📊 Acceptance Rate: 16.6% (15/90)
DCOSS-IoT 2025
Aitian Ma, Jean Tonday Rodriguez, Mo Sha, Dongsheng Luo
📅 IEEE DCOSS-IoT, June 2025
📊 Acceptance Rate: 23.6% (26/110) 🏆 Best Paper Award Nominee
MetroLivEnv 2025
Aitian Ma, Jean Tonday Rodriguez, Mo Sha
📅 IEEE MetroLivEnv, June 2025
ACM SAC 2025
Aitian Ma, Mo Sha
📅 Proceedings of the 40th ACM/SIGAPP Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC'25)
📊 Acceptance Rate: 23.8% (5/21)
ICCCN 2024
Aitian Ma, Jean Tonday Rodriguez, Mo Sha
📅 IEEE ICCCN, July 2024
📊 Acceptance Rate: 29.9% (47/157)
ICLR 2024
Xu Zheng, Tianchun Wang, Wei Cheng, Aitian Ma, Haifeng Chen, Mo Sha, Dongsheng Luo
📅 ICLR, May 2024
📊 Acceptance Rate: 31.1% (2260/7262)
AI4TS 2023
Xu Zheng, Tianchun Wang, Wei Cheng, Aitian Ma, Haifeng Chen, Mo Sha, Dongsheng Luo
📅 AI4TS Workshop, August 2023
🏆 Best Paper Award

📖 Journal Papers

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IEEE ToN 2024
Junyang Shi, Aitian Ma, Xia Cheng, Mo Sha, Xi Peng
📅 IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking
📖 Vol. 32, Issue 3, pp. 1983–1998, June 2024

🏆 Awards & Honors

Year Award
2025 🌟 Young Gladiators Fellowship, Northeastern University
2025 🏆 Best Paper Award Nominee, IEEE DCOSS-IoT
2025 🎓 FIU UGS Travel Award for the Academy of Science, Engineering, and Medicine of Florida (ASEMFL) Annual Conference
2023 🏆 Best Paper Award, AI4TS Workshop
2011 🥉 3rd Place, Microsoft HPC Campus Programming Competition
2007-2008 🎓 National Encouragement Scholarship, Henan Agricultural University

💼 Experience

🎓 Academic & Research

2022 – Present
Ph.D. Graduate Research Assistant
Florida International University

Knight Foundation School of Computing and Information Sciences

2013 – 2021
System Administrator & Instructor
Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing

Mentors: Daniel Dajun Zeng, Yihua Du

💻 Industry

2012 (Summer)
Software Engineer Intern
Ericsson China, Beijing R&D Center

Mentor: Ge Jiang

👨‍🏫 Teaching & Mentoring

📚 Teaching Assistant — Florida International University

Course Title Semester
COP 4338 Programming III Fall 2024
COP 5522 Parallel and Distributed Computing Spring 2024
COP 4710 Database Management Fall 2023
CEN 4010 Software Engineering Spring 2023
COP 4610 Operating Systems Fall 2022

🎯 Research Mentoring

🔧 Technical Skills

Category Technologies
💻 Programming Python C/C++ Java SQL CUDA JavaScript
🤖 ML Frameworks PyTorch TensorFlow Distributed Training Model Optimization
🛠️ Systems Docker Kubernetes Spark Kafka Elasticsearch Neo4j PostgreSQL
🎯 Focus Areas Wireless Sensing Edge AI Resource-Efficient Learning

🤝 Professional Service

👥 Reviewer for Conferences

DCOSS-IoT '25 MASS '25 LCN '25 CIT '25 ICMLA '25 ICASSP '26 SAC '26 ACDSA '26

📖 Reviewer for Journals

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IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering
TKDE
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IEEE Transactions on Computers
TC
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IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems
TNNLS
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Measurement Science and Technology
MEAS
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Computers in Biology and Medicine
CIBM