XIAOJUAN  MA

ABOUT ME

Hi, this is Xiaojuan, a Ph.D. candidate in the Distributed Protocols Research Group (DPRG) at UIUC, advised by Prof. Indranil Gupta. I also work with Prof. Fernando Granha Jeronimo on quantum error correction and quantum coding theory.

Before joining UIUC, I earned a Ph.D. degree in Physics from Beijing Normal University and a Master's degree in Computer Science from Iowa State University.

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Current focus

• Quantum networking

      ◦ Protocol design across quantum network layers

      ◦ Resource allocation and distributed quantum algorithms

• Quantum computing

◦ List decoding and recovery for quantum error-correcting codes

◦ Combinatorial bounds for quantum codes

Broader interests

• Distributed systems and networks

◦  Fault-tolerant distributed systems

◦  Congestion control and routing

•  Systems for machine learning

◦  Placement and parallelism for distributed ML training

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Preprint:   Fernando Granha Jeronimo, Xiaojuan Ma (alphabetical order),

Quantum List Recovery and Decoding: Achievability and Limitations

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.40262

Preprint:   Fernando Granha Jeronimo, Xiaojuan Ma, Nikhil Shagrithaya  (alphabetical order),

From Random Quantum Codes to Explicit qLDPC Codes via Local Properties

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.40252

Under Review:   Xiaojuan Ma, Indranil Gupta

Quantum Workload Migration via Teleportation

Under Review:   Xiaojuan Ma, Indranil Gupta

Quantum Network Link Layer Protocol Design

Under Review:   Xiaojuan Ma*, Yan Wang*, Indranil Gupta (* equal contribution)

Designated Information Propagation

Under Review:  Tianxiao Yang, Evan Varghese,  Xiaojuan Ma, Shashwat Jaiswal,  Indranil Gupta

Lightweight Congestion-control  Routing in LEO Satellite Networks

Xiaojuan Ma,  Indranil Gupta, Yan Wang

Topology and Density Control of Satellite-Defined Photonic Quantum Networks

Physical Review Research, 2025.

DOI: https://doi.org/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.

DOI: 10.1109/ICDCS63083.2025.00111

Anna Karanika, Rui Yang, Xiaojuan Ma, Jiangran Wang, Shalni Sundram, Indranil Gupta

There is More Control in Egalitarian Edge IoT Meshes

IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management, 2025

DOI: 10.1109/TNSM.2025.3608796

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

Information explosion on complex networks and control 

European Physical Journal 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