Dr Athen Ma     BEng PhD FHEA

Senior Lecturer

School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science

Email: athen.ma@qmul.ac.uk

Publications

Sun Y, Livan G, Ma A, Latora V.  Interdisciplinary researchers attain better long-term funding performance

Communications Physics 4 (1), 263 (2021)  IF=6.4

(https://doi.org/10.1038/s42005-021-00769-z)

 

Gray C, Ma A, McLaughlin O, Petit S, Woodward G, Bohan DA. Ecological plasticity governs ecosystem services in multilayer networks. Communications Biology 4 (1), 75 (2021)  IF=6.5

(https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-020-01547-3)

 

Ma A et al. Ecological networks reveal resilience of agro-ecosystems to changes in farming management.  

Nature Ecology & Evolution 3:260–264 (2019)  IF=19.1

(https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-018-0757-2)

 

Ma A, Bohan DA, Canard E, Derocles SAP, Gray C, Lu X, Macfadyen S, Romero GQ, Kratina P.

A replicated network approach to ‘big data’in ecology. Advances in ecological research 59, 225-264 (2018) IF=7.4 (https://doi.org/10.1016/bs.aecr.2018.04.001

 

Xu X, Zhang H, Luo J, Zhang D, Ma A. Area-corrected species richness patterns of vascular plants along a tropical elevational gradient. Journal of Mountain Science 14, 694-704 (2017) IF=2.4

 

Xu X, Zhang H,  D Zhang, Tian W, Huang H, Ma A. Altitudinal patterns of plant species richness in the Honghe region of China. Pakistan Journal of Botany 49 (3), 1039-1048 (2017) IF=1.1

 

Lu X, Gray C, Brown LE, Ledger ME, Milner AM, Mondragon RJ, Woodward G, Ma A 

Drought rewires the cores of food webs. Nature Climate Change 6:875–878 (2016)  IF=28.8

(https://doi.org/10.1038/nclimate3002)

 

The QUINTESSENCE Consortium Networking our way to better ecosystem service provision. 

Trends in ecology & evolution 31:105–115 (2016) IF=20.5

(https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2015.12.003)

 

Zhao L, Zhang H, O’Gorman EJ, Tian W, Ma A, Moore JC, Borrett SR, Woodward G. Weighting and indirect effects identify keystone species in food webs. Ecology Letters 19:1032–1040 (2016) IF=11.3

 (https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.12638

 

Gray C, Hildrew A, Lu X, Ma A, McElroy D, Monteith D, OGorman E, Shilland E, Woodward G 

Chapter ten-recovery and nonrecovery of freshwater food webs from the effects of acidification. 

Advances in Ecological Research 55:475–534 (2016)  IF=7.4

(https://doi.org/10.1016/bs.aecr.2016.08.009)

 

Ma A, Mondragon RJ, Latora V. Anatomy of funded research in science. 

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 112:14760–14765 (2015)  IF=11.1

(https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1513651112

 

Ma A, Mondragon RJ (2015) Rich-cores in networks. PLOS ONE 10:e0119678. IF= 3.7

(https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0119678)


Mulder C, Bennett EM, Bohan DA, Bonkowski M, Carpenter SR, Chalmers R, Cramer W, Durance I, Eisenhauer N, Fontaine C, et al. Chapter one-10 years later: Revisiting priorities for science and society a decade after the millennium ecosystem assessment. Advances in Ecological Research 53:1–53 (2015) IF=7.4

(https://doi.org/10.1016/bs.aecr.2015.10.005)

 

Poslad S, Ma A, Wang Z, Mei H 

Using a smart city iot to incentivise and target shifts in mobility behaviour is it a piece of pie? 

Sensors 15:13069–13096 (2015) IF=3.8

(https://doi.org/10.3390/s150613069

 

Gray C, Figueroa DH, Hudson LN, Ma A, Perkins D, Woodward G. Joining the dots: an automated method for constructing food webs from compendia of published interactions. Food Webs 5:11–20 (2015) IF=2.2

(https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fooweb.2015.09.001

 

Gray C, Baird DJ, Baumgartner S, Jacob U, Jenkins GB, O’Gorman EJ, Lu X, Ma A, Pocock MJ, Schuwirth N, et al.

Forum: ecological networks: the missing links in biomonitoring science.

Journal of Applied Ecology 51:1444–1449 (2014) IF=6.9

(https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2664.12300

 

Montoya LV, Ma A, Mondragon RJ. 

Social achievement and centrality in MathOverflow.Complex Networks IV

 

Mei H, Ma A, Poslad S, Oshin TO Short-term traffic volume prediction for sustainable transportation in an urban area. Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering 29:04014036 (2013)

 

Wang Y, Shi S, Yang X, Ma A. Bluetooth indoor positioning using RSSI and least square estimation (IEEE ICFCC), pp 837–42 (2013)

 

Ma A, Mondragon R. Evaluation of network robustness using a node tearing algorithm. Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications 391:6674–6681 (2012)

 

Oshin TO, Poslad S, Ma A. Improving the Energy-Efficiency of GPS based location sensing smartphone applications (IEEE TrustCom), pp 1698–1705 (2012)

 

Oshin TO, Poslad S, Ma A. A method to evaluate the energy-efficiency of wide-area location determination techniques used by smartphones (IEEE CSE), pp 326–333 (2012)

 

Pinto FC, Videira A, Ma A, Cuthbert L (2011) Efficient Big Brother networks (IEEE EUROCON), pp 1–4 (2011)

Yang X, Wang Y, Wu D, Ma A. K-means based clustering on mobile usage for social network analysis purpose (IEEE IMS), pp 223–228. (2010)

 

Ariffin SHS, Schormans JA, Ma A. Application of the generalised ballot theorem for evaluation of performance in packet buffers with non-first in first out scheduling. IET communications 3:933–944 (2009)

 

Dong R, Tokarchuk L, Ma A Digging friendship: paper recommendation in social network (NAEC), pp 21–28 (2009)

 

Tokarchuk L, Shoop K, Ma A. Using co-presence communities to enhance social recommendation (IEEE WONS), pp 169–172 (2009)

 

Wang L, De Vial E, Tokarchuk L, Wang Y, Ma A. Blue danger: live action gaming over bluetooth (IEEE CCNC), pp 1–5 (2009)

 

Wang Y, Yang X, Lu N, Ma A. A simulation package for hot-spot traffic relief in WCDMA networks (IEEE WiCOM), pp 1–5 (2009)

 

Wang Y, Yang X, Ma A, Cuthbert L. Intelligent resource optimisation using semi-smart antennas in LTE OFDMA systems (IEEE ICCTA), pp 173–179 (2009)

 

Chew B, Wang J, Ma A, Bigham J. Anomalous usage in web applications (NAEC 2008).

 

Wang Y, Cuthbert L, Ma A. IEEE 802.11 WLAN load balancing using adaptive antennas and cooperative controls

(IET ICWMMN), pp 1–4 (2006)

 

Wang Y, Ma A. An Agent-based Passenger Support System over Heterogeneous Wireless Infrastructures in an Airport Environment pp 240–244 (2006).

 

 Wang Y, Wu J, Bigham J, Ma A, Cuthbert L. Cooperative Control of WCDMA System under Geographically Congested Situations (ACTA Press). Pp 1-5 (2006)

 

Ma A, Schormans J. Fast, stable simulation of power-law packet traffic using concatenated acceleration techniques. IEE Proceedings-Communications 152:420–426 (2005)

 

Ma A, Schormans J, Cuthbert L. Aggregation technique for networks with power law traffic and application to accelerate simulation. IEE Proceedings-Communications 150:177–183 (2003).

 

Ma A, Schormans J. Efficient simulation modelling for long range dependent traffic (RESIM), pp 1–6 (2002).

 

Ma A, Schormans J. Accelerated simulation modelling of Power-law traffic via aggregation (ITC), pp 1–6 (2002)

 

Leung C, Schormans J, Ma A. Measurement-based queue length distribution estimation for power-law traffic. Electronics Letters 38:1608–1610 (2002)

 

Ma A, Schormans J. Hybrid technique for analysis of multiplexed power-law traffic in broadband networks. Electronics Letters 38:295–297 (2002)

 

Ma A, Schormans J. A fast simulation method for modelling IP networks (UKTS), pp 1–6 (2001)

 

Schormans J, Pitts J, Ma A, Mondragon R. Accurate results for traffic engineering in the presence of LRD (UKTS), pp 1–5 (2000)

 

Ma A, Schormans J, Pitts J, Scharf E, Pearmain A, Phillips C. Design rules and equivalent capacity for buffering of pareto source. Electronics Letters 36:1274–1275 (2000)