Dr Liang Ma - Experiences

Dataminr, New York (May 26, 2020 - Now)

Full-time Senior AI Research Scientist

LLM-based model development for trending anomaly summarizations, automatic summary updates of time-evolving events, supplementary information generation, and other quality assurance applications
Model research, deployment, and quality control of text generation systems that summarize event details which are directly revealed to customers across all Dataminr platforms
Content and error detection model development for production quality assurance
Working directly with users on their AI model requirements and feedback on how to improve existing models or develop brand-new models
Mentoring junior AI researchers/engineers on AI model development

IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, New York (Dec 1, 2014 - May 25, 2020)

Full-time Research Staff Member in Distributed AI

Task Lead of hybrid networks in the International Technology Alliance (ITA) project
Task Lead of query answering in dynamic knowledge networks in the Network Science Collaborative Technology Alliance (NS-CTA) project
Resource management via reinforcement learning
Node sequence embedding and deep learning
Graph analysis, performance quantification, and algorithm design

IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, New York (Aug - Nov, 2012 and Jun - Sep, 2013)

Research Intern in Distributed and Cognitive Systems

Mobility control using reinforcement learning
Fundamental research on graphical conditions and algorithms for identifying network properties
Problem modeling and quantitative analysis

Microsoft Research Asia (MSRA), Beijing, China (Sep - Dec, 2009)

Research Intern at Wireless and Networking Group (W&N)

Research on the Gigabit Wireless Communication System
Implementation, test, and analysis of this Gigabit Wireless Communication System based on SORA (SORA: The software radio platform developed by W&N at Microsoft Research)

Ericsson Communications Co., Ltd, Beijing, China (Jun - Oct 2008)

Summer Intern at the Broadband Network R&D Center (XB)

Writing the design specification and implementation proposal for the OMS1010 (Optical Multi-Service 1010) project
Code porting, debugging, and testing the corresponding modules in Linux OS

NTT DoCoMo Beijing Communications Laboratories Co., Ltd, China (Apr 2007-Apr 2008)

Research Intern at the Department of Mobile Ubiquitous Communications (MUC)

Development of novel multicast schemes for the MAC layer of the IEEE 802.11 standards
Simulation via OPNET 11.5 assisted by the debugging tool in Visual Studio