Short Bio
Yinbin Ma is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC). He is advised by Professor Daniela Tuninetti. Prior to starting his Ph.D. program, Yinbin earned an M.S. in ECE at UIC and a B.S. in Computer Science at Xidian University. Yinbin's research interests lie in the field of information theory, particularly shared-link caching network models. His Ph.D. dissertition is Optimizing Placement and Delivery for Coded Caching.
Education
University of Illinois at Chicago - United States
- Doctor of Philosophy, Electrical and Computer Engineering, 09/2020 - 12/2025
- Master of Science, Statistics (concurrent with Ph.D), 09/2023 - 05/2025
- Master of Science, Electrical and Computer Engineering, 09/2018 - 05/2020
Xidian University - China
- Bachlor of Science, Computer Science, 09/2015 - 06/2019
Experience
University of Illinois at Chicago - United States
- Graduate Research Assistant, advised by Prof. Daniela Tuninetti, 05/2020 - 12/2025
- Coded Caching is a broadcast network which leverages locally cached contents at users side by transmitting coded messages, so it can boost the network performance comparing to uncoded scenario.
- Researching and exploring the information limits on coded caching, including numerical analysis by formulating a large linear problemming model on Gurobi.
- Co-advised students with advisor for their summer research internship at our lab.
- Graduate Research Assistant, advised by Prof. Shuo Han, 01/2020 - 05/2020
- Distributed optimization and consensus optimization, [slides].
- Researched and implemented algorithms on high performance clusters platform at UIC, including ADMM, variation reduction, asynchronous gradient method.
Publication
- Journals
- (MT2022a) Yinbin Ma, Daniela Tuninetti, A General Coded Caching Scheme for Scalar Linear Function Retrieval, IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Information Theory. IEEE, 2022. [ISIT], [arXiv], [YouTube]
- Conferences
- (MT2022b) Yinbin Ma, Daniela Tuninetti, On Coded Caching Systems with Offline Users, 2022 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT). IEEE, 2022. [arXiv]
- (MT2023a) Yinbin Ma, Daniela Tuninetti, Demand Privacy in Hotplug Caching Systems, 2023 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT). IEEE, 2023. [arXiv]
- (MT2023b) Yinbin Ma, Daniela Tuninetti, Coded Caching with Linear Coded Placement: Exact Tradeoff for the Three User Case, 2023 59th Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing (Allerton). IEEE, 2023.
- (MT2024a) Yinbin Ma, Daniela Tuninetti, On Demand-Private Hotplug Caching Systems, 2024 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT). IEEE, 2024.
- (MT2025) Yinbin Ma, Daniela Tuninetti, An Achievable Scheme for the K-user Linear Computation Broadcast Channel, 2025 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT). IEEE, 2025. [arXiv] [slides]
- Preprints
Professional Activities
- Reviewer of the following journals and conferences
- IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT)
- IEEE Communications Letters
- IEEE Transactions on Communications
- IEEE Information Theory Workshop
- IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communication
- IEEE Transactions on Information Theory
- Supported by the following research funding and grant
- NSF Awards 1910309 and 2312229
- NSF ACCESS EXPLORE Allocation, ELE240014
- Student travel grant, 2022 and 2024 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory
Awards
- The Most Innovative Project Prize, UIC Engineering Expo 2019, [report]
Miscellany
- I was in charge of Microsoft Student Club at Xidian University in 2018/2019 academic year before.
- I am an alumni of The High School Affiliated to Yunnan Normal University.