Xiaosong Ma

Prior to joining MBZUAI, Professor Ma worked as a principal scientist at Qatar Computing Research Institute, and as an associate professor at North Carolina State University. She has produced 100 publications and served as associate editor for ACM ToS and Elsevier JPDC, as well as PC co-chair for conferences such as USENIX FAST 2024. In addition, she has served as PC member for numerous conferences, including OSDI, ASPLOS, FAST, EuroSys, Supercomputing, USENIX ATC, ICS, and HPDC.

• Ph.D. in Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2003.

• ACM Distinguished Member, 2020.
• ACM Gordon Bell Award Finalist, Supercomputing Conference, 2018.
• Best Paper Finalist, Supercomputing Conference, 2014, 2006.
• Invitee (among 30 outstanding US engineers aged 30-45 selected by the National Academy of Engineering), 2014 Indo-American Frontiers of Engineering Symposium (IAFOE).
• Distinguished Alumni Educator Award, Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2012.
• NetApp Faculty Fellowship, 2012.
• HPDC 20 Years Best Papers Award (among 22 papers selected from 1992-2012), 2012.
• IBM Faculty Award, 2009.
• NSF CAREER Award, 2006.
• DOE Early Career Principal Investigator Award, 2005.

• Ziyue Qiu, Juncheng Yang, Juncheng Zhang, Cheng Li, Xiaosong Ma, Qi Chen, Mao Yang, Yinlong Xu: “FrozenHot Cache: Rethinking Cache Management for Modern Software", the 18th European Conference on Computer Systems (EuroSys '23), May 2023. 
• Chaoyi Ruan, Yingqiang Zhang, Chao Bi, Xiaosong Ma, Hao Chen, Feifei Li, Xinjun Yang, Cheng Li, Ashraf Aboulnaga, Yinlong Yu: “Persistent Memory Disaggregation for Cloud-Native Relational Databases", the 28th Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS '23), Mar 2023.
• Weiliang Ma, Xuanhua SHi, Qian Xiong, Xiaosong Ma, Hai Jin, Haozhao Kuang, Mingyu Gao, Ye Zhang, Haichen Shen, Weifang Hu: “GZKP: A GPU Accelerated Zero-Knowledge Proof System", the 28th Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS '23), Mar 2023.
• Ke Yang, Xiaosong Ma, Saravanan Thirumuruganathan, Kang Chen, Yongwei Wu: “Random Walks on Huge Graphs at Cache Efficiency", the 27th ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP ’19), Nov 2021. 
• Hao Chen, Chaoyi Ruan, Cheng Li, Xiaosong Ma, Yinlong Xu: “SpanDB: A Fast, Cost-Effective LSM-tree Based KV Store on Hybrid Storage”, the 19th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST '21), Feb 2021.