XIAOJUAN MA

EDUCATION

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign                                                                

Aug. 2021 - Present

Ph.D. student in Computer Science

Iowa State University                                                                     

Aug. 2018 - Mar. 2021

Master's in Computer Science

Thesis: Adaptive Fund Allocation for Game-Based Verifiable Computation Outsourcing

Beijing Normal University                                                                                       

Aug. 2003 - Jul. 2010

Ph.D. in Physics
Thesis: Synchronization and Spreading Dynamics on Complex Networks

Arizona State University                         

Aug. 2007 - Jul. 2009

Visiting student in Electrical Engineering 

Beijing Normal University                          

Aug. 1999 - Jul. 2003

Bachelor in Physics

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Xiaojuan Ma, Indranil Gupta, Yan Wang

Topology and Density Control of Satellite-Defined Photonic Quantum Networks.

Physical Review Research, 2025.

DOI: https://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevResearch.7.013314

Xiaojuan Ma, Shashwat Jaiswal, Chirag Shetty, Chen-Wei Chou, Kevin Zhang, Indranil Gupta

Wainscot: Tailoring Model Parallelism to Fit Device Memory Limits

Proc. 45th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS), 2025.

Pinglan Liu, Xiaojuan Ma, and Wensheng Zhang

Optimizing Fund Allocation for Game-Based Verifiable Computation Outsourcing 

International Conference on Cloud Computing, 2022

https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-99191-3_6

Xiaojuan Ma, Wen-Xu Wang, Ying-Cheng Lai, and Zhigang Zheng

Information explosion on complex networks and control 

European Journal of Physics B 76, 179, 2010

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1140/epjb/e2010-00208-1

Xiaojuan Ma, Yan Wang, and Zhigang Zheng

Effect of leaf nodes on the synchronizability of complex networks

Acta Physica Sinica 58, 4426 ,2010. (in Chinese)

DOI: https://doi.org/10.7498/aps.58.4426

Xiaojuan Ma, Liang Huang, Ying-Cheng Lai, and Zhigang Zheng

Emergence of loop structure in scale-free networks and dynamical consequences 

Physical Review E 79, 056106, 2009

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.79.056106

Xiaojuan Ma, Liang Huang, Ying-Cheng Lai, Yan Wang, and Zhigang Zheng

Synchronization-based scalability of complex clustered networks

Chaos 18, 043109, 2008

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3005782

Bin Ao, Xiaojuan Ma, Yunyun Li, and Zhigang Zheng

Non-Local Coupling and Partial Synchronization in Chaotic Systems

Chinese Physics Letters 23, 786, 2006 

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1088/0256-307X/23/4/007