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 currently in his forth year of study, and is being 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, and he is currently working on the implementation of a coded caching system. His aim is to bridge the gap between theoretical models and practical applications, with the goal of making coded caching a reality in real-world networks.

Education

University of Illinois at Chicago - United States

• Doctor of Philosophy, Electrical and Computer Engineering, 09/2020 - present
• Master of Science, Statistics (concurrent with Ph.D), 09/2023 - present
• 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 - Present
• Coded caching in network coding theory.
• Investigated feasibilities of multicast messages in SLFR model (yet another coded caching model on a higher finite field), see (MT2022a).
• Enhence the coded caching system - from a paper design to a real system. so far we design a scheme handle with offline users, see (MT2022b)
• 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

1. 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]
2. 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. [draft] [slides]
• (MT2024a) Yinbin Ma, Daniela Tuninetti, On Demand-Private Hotplug Caching Systems, 2024 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT). IEEE, 2024.
3. Preprints
• (MT2024b) Yinbin Ma, Daniela Tuninetti, On Coded Caching Systems with Offline Users, with and without Demand Privacy against Colluding Users, arXiv preprint arXiv:2401.06894, 2024.

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.