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 develops scalable, efficient, and trustworthy artificial intelligence, with a particular emphasis on computer vision and large language models. One major direction of his work develops learning algorithms, optimization methods, and theoretical foundations that enable machine learning systems to operate effectively under computational, communication, and data constraints. A second research direction centers on trustworthy AI, developing privacy-preserving, safe, and controllable learning methods for generative models. His research has applications spanning edge and mobile computing, cybersecurity, autonomous systems, wireless communications and networking, and intelligent manufacturing.

His research has been published in leading venues, including NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, Oakland, CCS, ASPLOS, ISCA, MICRO, DAC, and TPAMI. He received the Best Paper Award at ICLR HAET 2021, Contributed Article in CACM, Best Paper Nominations at SenSys 2024 and ISQED 2018, and several Highlight/Spotlight papers in NeurIPS and CVPR. His research has been supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and NASA. He is a recipient of the NSF CAREER Award.

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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07/2026, [Grant] Dr. Ma receives NSF CAREER Award. Thanks NSF!
06/2026, [Paper] One paper accepted in ECCV 2026.
05/2026, [Paper] One paper accepted in TMLR.
05/2026, [Committee] Xiaolong will serve as Area Chair for NeurIPS 2026.
05/2026, [Committee] Receive Silver Reviewer Award in ICML 2026.
05/2026, [Paper] One paper accepted in ICML 2026.
04/2026, [Paper] One paper accepted in IEEE ICIP 2026.
03/2026, [Paper] One paper accepted in TMLR.
02/2026, [Paper] One paper accepted in CVPR 2026.
01/2026, [Paper] Two papers are accepted in ICLR 2026.
09/2025, [Committee] Xiaolong will serve as Area Chair 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 for the NSF.
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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