Xiaolong Ma is an assistant professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering @ The University of Arizona. He received his Ph.D. degree in Computer Engineering from Northeastern University (NEU), Boston in 2022, supervised by Professor Yanzhi Wang.

His research interests include:

Scalable and efficient AI system
Trustworthy and privacy-preserving machine learning
Computer Vision (CV) and Large Language Models (LLMs)
Algorithm, optimization

Useful links: Google Scholar, DBLP

I am always looking for highly-motivated PhDs / masters / interns to work in the area of Efficient AI. If you are interested in joining my group, please send me your CV and transcripts.

Professional Experience

08/2025 – present @ The University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
Assistant Professor

08/2022 – 08/2025 @ Clemson University, Clemson, SC
Assistant Professor

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08/2025, [Committee] Xiaolong will serve as AC for CPAL 2026.
09/2025, [Paper] Two papers are accepted in NeurIPS 2025.
09/2025, [Paper] One paper is accepted in NeurIPS Workshop on Regulatable ML.
08/2025, [Committee] Xiaolong will serve as SPC for AAAI 2026.
08/2025, [Paper] One paper is accepted in CCS 2025.
08/2025, [Paper] One paper is accepted in EMNLP 2025.
08/2025, [Paper] One paper is accepted in CIKM 2025.
07/2025, [Grant] We are awarded $400K for Adversarial Robust Wireless Systems. Thanks NSF!
07/2025, [Paper] One paper is accepted in ECAI 2025.
06/2025, [Paper] One paper is accepted in Intelligent Systems with Applications.
06/2025, [Paper] Two papers are accepted in ICCV 2025.
06/2025, [Paper] One paper is accepted in CFAgentic@ICML’25.
12/2024, [Panel] Xiaolong serves as a panelist at NSF panel.
10/2024, [Paper] One paper is accepted in IEEE S&P (Oakland).
09/2024, [Paper] One paper is accepted in SenSys 2024.
07/2024, [Paper] One paper is accepted in ECCV 2024.
06/2024, [Grant] Xiaolong receives $300K as lead PI for Sustainable Computing. Thanks NSF!
06/2024, [Grant] We are awarded $640K additional funding for AI-Enabled Drone Swarms. Thanks NASA!
05/2024, [Paper] Two papers are accepted in ICML 2024.
04/2024, [Grant] Honored to receive Faculty Enhancement Fund from ECE department!
01/2024, [Paper] One paper is accepted in ICLR 2024.
11/2023, [Committee] Xiaolong will serve as TPC member of DAC 2024.
11/2023, [Paper] One paper is accepted in CPAL 2024.
09/2023, [Paper] One paper is accepted in NeurIPS 2023.
08/2023, [Grant] We are awarded $900K for Harmonious Federated Intelligence. Thanks NSF!
07/2023, [Grant] We are awarded $600K for AI-Enabled Drone Swarms. Thanks NASA!
04/2023, [Paper] One paper is accepted in IJCAI 2023 (acceptance rate: 15%).
02/2023, [Paper] One paper is accepted with spotlight presentation at the ICLR SNN workshop.
02/2023, [Paper] One paper is accepted as highlight paper (top 2.5%) in CVPR 2023.
01/2023, [Paper] One paper is accepted in ICLR 2023.
12/2022, [Panel] Xiaolong serves as a panelist at NSF panel.
11/2022, [Paper] One paper is accepted in AAAI 2023.
07/2022, [Paper] Two papers are accepted in ECCV 2022.
05/2022, [Paper] One paper is accepted in ICML 2022.
04/2022, [Committee] Xiaolong serves as committee member of NeurIPS 2022.
03/2022, [Paper] one paper is accepted in CVPR 2022.
03/2022, [Committee] Xiaolong serves as committee member of ECCV 2022.
02/2022, [Committee] Xiaolong serves as committee member of ICML 2022.
01/2022, [Committee] Xiaolong serves as committee member of CVPR 2022.
01/2022, [Paper] One paper is accepted in ICLR 2022.
11/2021, [Paper] One paper is accepted in FPGA 2022.
09/2021, [Paper] One paper is accepted with Spotlight Presentation in NeurIPS 2021.
09/2021, [Paper] One paper is accepted in NeurIPS 2021.
09/2021, [Committee] Xiaolong will serve as program committee member of AAAI 2021.
06/2021, [Paper] One paper is in proceeding of the IJCAI 2021 demonstration track.
05/2021, [Paper] One paper is accepted by TPAMI (Impact Factor 17.861).
05/2021, [Paper] One paper is accepted by ICML 2021.
05/2021, [Paper] Best Paper Award in the ICLR 2021 workshop of Hardware-Aware Efficient Training of Deep Learning Models.
04/2021, [Paper] one paper is accepted as Contributed Article in the Communications of the ACM (CACM)
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