Curriculum Vitae (pdf)

Education

• Columbia University, New York, USA
  Doctor of Philosophy, Electrical Engineering, 2010
• Columbia University, New York, USA
  Master of Philosophy, Electrical Engineering, 2008
• The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
  Master of Philosophy, Computer Science and Engineering, 2004
• The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
  Bachelor of Science (First Class Honors), Computer Science, 2002

Experience

• Visiting research fellow, Telefonica Research & Development, Internet Research Group, Barcelona, Spain, 2010
  • Researched on Internet Economics issues including ISP settlements and Net Neutrality.
  • Generalized the slotted-Aloha protocol, performed stochastic and game-theoretic analysis and derived theoretical performance bounds for similar wireless networks.


• Summer research intern, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Hawthorne, NY, 2006
  • Worked closely with networking and math operations groups to develop stochastic models and conducted large-scale simulations to evaluate the performance of wireless networks.
  • Organized presentations for collaborating researchers to update project progress.


• Research assistant, Distributed Network Analysis (DNA) Lab, Columbia University, 2004 -- 2010
  • Researched on Internet Economics issues including ISP settlements and Network Neutrality.
  • Generalized the slotted-Aloha protocol, performed stochastic and game-theoretic analysis and derived theoretical performance bounds for similar wireless networks.


• Research assistant, Advanced Networking and System Research Group, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2001 -- 2004
  • Modeled and analyzed the "free-riding" problem in P2P networks.
  • Applied "algorithmic mechanism design" approach and designed a bidding mechanism to provide incentives for information sharing in P2P networks.


• Teaching assistant, Department of Electrical Engineering, Columbia University
  • ELEN E4710 An Introduction to Network Engineering, 2004
  • ELEN E6768 Emerging Topics in Emerging Networks, 2005

Publications (DBLP) (DNA Lab)

Journal papers

• Richard T.B. Ma, Dah Ming Chiu, John C.S. Lui, Vishal Misra and Dan Rubenstein.
  Internet Economics: The use of Shapley value for ISP settlement.
  IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, Volume 18, Issue 3, June 2010.


• Richard T.B. Ma, Vishal Misra and Dan Rubenstein.
  An Analysis of Generalized Slotted-Aloha Protocols.
  IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, Volume 17, Issue 3, June 2009.


• Richard T.B. Ma, Sam C.M. Lee, John C.S. Lui, David K.Y. Yau.
  Incentive and Service Differentiation in P2P Networks: A Game Theoretic Approach.
  IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, Volume 14, Issue 5, Oct. 2006.


• Richard T.B. Ma, Vishal Misra and Dan Rubenstein.
  Cooperative and Non-cooperative Models for slotted-Aloha type MAC protocols.
  Performance Evaluation Review, 33(3), December, 2005.


• Richard T.B. Ma, Sam C.M. Lee, John C.S. Lui, David K.Y. Yau.
  Incentive P2P Networks: A Protocol to Encourage Information Sharing and Contribution.
  Performance Evaluation Review, 31(2), September, 2003.

Conference papers

• Richard T.B. Ma, Dah Ming Chiu, John C.S. Lui, Vishal Misra and Dan Rubenstein.
  On Cooperative Settlement Between Content, Transit and Eyeball Internet Service Providers.
  Proceedings of ACM Conference on Emerging network experiment and technology (CoNEXT 2008), Madrid, Spain, December, 2008.


• Richard T.B. Ma, Dah Ming Chiu, John C.S. Lui, Vishal Misra and Dan Rubenstein.
  Interconnecting Eyeballs to Content: A Shapley Value Perspective on ISP Peering and Settlement.
  Proceedings of ACM Network Economics (NetEcon '08), Seattle, August, 2008.


• Richard T.B. Ma, Dah Ming Chiu, John C.S. Lui, Vishal Misra and Dan Rubenstein.
  Internet Economics: The use of Shapley value for ISP settlement.
  Proceedings of ACM Conference on Emerging network experiment and technology (CoNEXT 2007), New York, USA, December, 2007.


• Richard T.B. Ma, Vishal Misra and Dan Rubenstein.
  Modeling and Analysis of Generalized Slotted-Aloha MAC Protocols in Cooperative, Competitive and Adversarial Environments.
  The 26th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS), Lisbon, Portugal, July, 2006.


• Richard T.B. Ma, Vishal Misra and Dan Rubenstein.
  Cooperative and Non-cooperative Models for slotted-Aloha type MAC protocols.
  In Proceedings of The Seventh Workshop on MAthematical performance Modeling and Analysis, Banff, AB, Canada, June 6, 2005.


• Richard T.B. Ma, Sam C.M. Lee, John C.S. Lui, David K.Y. Yau.
  A Game Theoretic Approach to Provide Incentive and Service Differentiation in P2P Networks.
  The ACM Sigmetrics/Performance, June, 2004.


• Richard T.B. Ma, Sam C.M. Lee, John C.S. Lui, David K.Y. Yau.
  An Incentive Mechanism for P2P Networks.
  The 24th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS), Tokyo, Japan, March, 2004.


• Richard T.B. Ma, Sam C.M. Lee, John C.S. Lui, David K.Y. Yau.
  Incentive P2P Networks: A Protocol to Encourage Information Sharing and Contribution.
  In Proceedings of The Fifth Workshop on MAthematical performance Modeling and Analysis, Marina del Rey, CA, USA, June, 2003.

Invited papers

• Richard T.B. Ma, Dah Ming Chiu, John C.S. Lui, Vishal Misra and Dan Rubenstein.
  The Shapley Value: Its Use and Implications on Internet Economics.
  Proceedings of Allerton Conference on Communication, Control and Computing, September, 2008.

References

• Prof. Dan Rubenstein
  Dept. of Electrical Engineering
  Columbia University
  New York, NY, USA
  
• Prof. Vishal Misra
  Dept. of Computer Science
  Columbia University
  New York, NY, USA
  
• Prof. John C.S. Lui
  Dept. of Computer Science
  Chinese University of Hong Kong
  Shantin, Hong Kong
  
• Prof. Dah Ming Chiu
  Dept. of Information Engineering
  Chinese University of Hong Kong
  Shantin, Hong Kong