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Ph.D., Computer Science, 2013 (expected)
University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
Advisor: Prof. Viktor K. Prasanna
BEng, Computer Science and Engineering, 2007
Vietnam National University, Ho Chi Minh City
Advisor: Prof. Tru H. Cao

Book Chapters

Yinglong Xia, Nam Ma and Viktor Prasanna, "Implementing Pointer Jumping for Exact Inference on Manycore Processors," in Scalable Computing and Communication: Theory and Practice, S.U. Khan, L. Wang and Y. Zomaya, Eds., John Wiley & Sons, 2013
Tru Cao, Hoa Nguyen and Nam Ma, "Modelling and Computing with Imprecise and Uncertain Properties in Object Bases," in Interval/ Probabilistic Uncertainty and Non-Classical Logics, ser. Advances in Soft Computing, V.-N. Huynh, Y. Nakamori, H. Ono, J. Lawry, V. Kreinovich, and H. T. Nguyen, Eds., vol. 46, pp.141–159, Springer, 2008

Journals

Nam Ma, Yinglong Xia and Viktor Prasanna, "Data Parallel Implementation of Belief Propagation in Factor Graphs on Multicore Platforms," International Journal of Parallel Programming (in press)

Conference/Workshop papers

Nam Ma, Yinglong Xia and Viktor Prasanna, "Parallel Exact Inference on Multicore Using MapReduce," 24rd International Symposium on Computer Architecture and High Performance Computing (SBAC-PAD'12), 2012
Nam Ma, Yinglong Xia and Viktor Prasanna, "Task Parallel Implementation of Belief Propagation in Factor Graphs," Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Computing for Machine Learning and Inference Problems (ParLearning’12, in conjunction with IPDPS'12), 2012
Nam Ma, Yinglong Xia and Viktor Prasanna, "Data Parallelism for Belief Propagation in Factor Graphs," 23rd International Symposium on Computer Architecture and High Performance Computing (SBAC-PAD'11), 2011
Nam Ma, Yinglong Xia and Viktor Prasanna, "Exploring Weak Dependencies in DAG Scheduling," 13th Workshop on Advances in Parallel and Distributed Computational Models (APDCM'11, in conjunction with IPDPS'11), 2011
Nam Ma, Yinglong Xia and Viktor Prasanna, "Exact Inference on Manycore Processors Using Pointer Jumping," 22nd International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing and Systems (PDCS'10), 2010 (Best Paper Award in the Area of Parallel Algorithms)
Nam Ma, Nguyen T.B. Ngoc, Hoa Nguyen and Tru Cao, "FPDB4O: A Fuzzy and Probabilistic Object Base Management System," 16th IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems (FUZZ-IEEE'07), 2007

Best Paper Award in the Area of Parallel Algorithms at PDCS’10 (2010)
VEF Fellowship Award (2008)
Government Scholarship for Excellent Students at Vietnam National University (2002 – 2007)
Honorable Mention in Vietnam National Physics Olympiad for High School Students (2002)

Volunteers for IPDPS'10'11
Subreviewers for CCGrids'10, ICCS'10, HPEC'10'11, PaCT'11, FCCM'11, ICS'12, CF'12
Administrator of the P-group heterogeneous clusters and multicore servers (04/2009 – 09/2012)