Richard T.B. Ma

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About Me

I am Tianbai (Richard) Ma, currently a PhD candidate in Department of Electrical Engineering, Columbia University. I am affiliated with Distributed Network Analysis (DNA) Research Group, under the supervision of Prof. Dan Rubenstein and Prof. Vishal Misra.

My research interests include:

• Distributed Systems, Wireless Networks and P2P Networks
• Economics of the Internet and Cloud Computing
• Algorithmic Game Theory and Mechanism Design
• Stochastic Modeling and Analysis

I received my Mphil. and BSc.(first-class honors) degrees in Computer Science & Engineering from the Chinese University of Hong Kong. I was affiliated with Advanced Networking & System Research Group, under the supervision of Prof. John C.S. Lui.

I was born in Shanghai. In 1998, I got admitted by Fudan University as one of the top ten students in Department of Computer Science. At the same year, I received the Hong Kong Jockey Club Scholarship and became one of the first batch of mainland students pursuing undergraduate degrees in Hong Kong. I won the Championship of departmental programming contest and elected as Captain of team Neptune. Our team got the 8th place in ACM-ICPC International Collegiate Programming Contest Singapore Regional in 2000.

My hobbies include badminton, contract bridge, go, taekwondo (blue belt) and travel.