Shuo (Sol) Ma

Ph.D. Candidate
Department of Computer Science
University of Illinois at Chicago
851 S. Morgan (M/C 152), Room 1120 SEO
Chicago, IL 60607-7053, USA
Email: sma AT cs DOT uic DOT edu

[Research] [Publications] [Awards] [Teaching Assitant] [Reviewer] [CV] [Fun Stuff]

I am a 5th year Ph.D. student in the Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Chicago.
My primary advisor is Professor Ouri Wolfson and my co-advisor is Professor Jane Lin.

Research

My current research interests include computational transportation science, moving objects databases, and mobile computing.

Currently, I am working on an interesting project called VTI (Volunteered Traveler Information). It is a Twitter application for real-time transportation information. The application is crowd-sourcing based. Therefore the more people use it, the more useful it becomes. So please help me to promote this application and let more people know about it :).

Publications

Shuo Ma, Ouri Wolfson, Jie Lin. IIP: An Event-Based Platform for ITS Applications. In Proceedings of 3rd International Workshop on Computational Transportation Science, IWCTS 2010 . [pdf]
Shuo Ma, Ouri Wolfson, Jie Lin. A Survey on Trust Management for Intelligent Transportation System. In Proceedings of 4th International Workshop on Computational Transportation Science, IWCTS 2011 . [pdf]
Shuo Ma, Yu Zheng, Ouri Wolfson. T-Share: A Large-Scale Dynamic Taxi Ridesharing Service. In Proceedings of 29th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering, ICDE 2013 .[pdf] Best Paper Runner-up

Awards

The Best Paper Runner-Up Award, 29th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering, ICDE 2013.
Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award, Dept. of CS, Univ. of Illinois at Chicago, 2010
Gold Medal of Yahoo Search Intramural Programming Contest, Beijing Univ. of Posts and Telecommunications, 2007
First Class Prize of National Collegiate Physics Competition, 2005
University Academic First Class Scholarship, Beijing Univ. of Post and Telecommunications, 2004-2008

Teaching Assitant

CS 107: Introduction to Computing and Programming, Fall 2008, Spring 2009, Summer 2009
CS 201: Data Structures and Discrete Mathematics, Summer 2010, Fall 2011
CS 301: Languages and Automata, Fall 2009, Spring 2010
CS 340: Software Design, Spring 2011
CS 366: Computer Architecture II: Hardware-Software Interface,Fall 2009, Spring 2010
CS 401: Computer Algorithms I, Spring 2012
CS 441: Distributed Object Programming Using Middleware, Spring 2011
CS 480: Database Systems, Spring 2013

External Review

CIKM'11,ICCCT'11, ICDE'09, ICDE'10, ICWMC'12, MDM'11, MDM'12, SIGSPATIAL'11, SIGSPATIAL'12, SRDS'11, VLDB'10, VLDB'12, TPDS'11

CV

You can download my CV from here.

Fun Stuff

Every Word Cheater: a cheating program fo Every Word, a free word scramble game for Amazon kindle
Intersting Math Problems: my own gallery of collected interesting math problems
Bash Programming: my study experience of bash programming
Python vs. Java: a not-so-complete comparison between Python and Java