Hao Ma is an undergraduate student at the School of Computer Science and Technology, Shandong University, Qingdao, China. His primary research interests include Federated Learning and Distributed Machine Learning and Secure and Robust Algorithm Design.

Outside of his academic life, he is interested in sports, especially running. He has run several half marathons. He grew up in WuLian, a beautiful mountain county in east China.

This is his CV here.

Education

• Sept. 2021 — June 2025: B.Sc. at the School of Computer Science and Technology, Shandong University, Qingdao, China)
• Sept. 2018 — June 2021: The Hign School of Wu Lian.

Publications

• Hao Ma, Senmao Qi, Jiayue Yao, Yuan Yuan, Yifei Zou, Dongxiao Yu, “Fed-NAD: Backdoor Resilient Federated Learning via Neural Attention Distillation”. IEEE International Conference on Intel- ligent Data and Security (IEEE IDS). 2024.
• Senmao Qi, Hao Ma, Yifei Zou, Dongxiao Yu, Peng Li, and Xiuzhen Cheng, “Fragment-sharing is enough to backdoor a giant model in federated learning”. Big Data Mining and Analytics (BDMA) (2024). JCR Q1.
• Senmao Qi, Hao Ma, Yifei Zou, Yuan Yuan, Peng Li, and Dongxiao Yu, “Fed-MS: Fault tolerant federated edge learning with multiple byzantine servers”. IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (IEEE ICDCS). CCF B. 2024.
• Senmao Qi, Hao Ma, Yifei Zou, Yuan Yuan, Peng Li, and Dongxiao Yu, BR-FEEL: A Backdoor Resilient Approach for Federated Edge Learning with Fragment-Sharing”. Journal of Systems Architecture (JSA) (2024). CCF B.

Honors and Awards

• National scholarship, 2024.
• Second class of Academic Innovation Award of Shandong University Special Talents Scholarship, 2023.
• National Encouragement scholarship of Shandong University, 2022 and 2023.
• Second Class Academic Scholarship of Shandong University, 2022 and 2023.
• Second class of Academic Innovation Award of Shandong University Special Talents Scholarship, 2023.
• Second Class Prize in ChinaUndergraduate Mathematical Contest in Modelling, Shandong Province, 2023.
• Second Class Prize in Chinese Mathematics Competitions, Shandong Province, 2022.
• Second Class Prize in the Mathematical Competition of Senior High School of China Shandong Province, 2020.

Activities

• Research Assistant: 2022-now, Institute of Intelligent Computing.
• Computer Elite Class：member of Computer Elite Class , 2021, which is committed to cultivating future excellent top talents in computer science and leading figures in the IT industry

Skills

• Languages: IELTS: 6.5, CET-493.
• Coding: Python, C/C++, Matlab, LATEX.