Education and Career Path

Zhanshan (Sam) Ma
PhD in Computer Science (2008), University of Idaho, USA
PhD in Entomology (1997), University of Idaho, USA

2010—Present
Professor and the Director of
Computational Biology and Medical Ecology Lab
Kunming Institute of Zoology
Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

2006—2010
Research Scientist &
PhD Study in Computer Science
Institute of Bioinformatics & Evolutionary Studies &
Department of Computer Science
University of Idaho, USA

1998—2006
Held various middle and senior engineering positions in semiconductor chips, networking and software with Micron Technology Inc, Tumbleweed Communications Corp. in the USA

Professional Services
(1)Member of “Faculty 1000 of Biology and Medicine”
www.f1000.com
(2)Editor-in-Chief for “I. J. of Computational Microbiology and Medical Ecology”
http://www.inderscience.com/ijcmme
(3)Editor-in-Chief for “I. J. of Cyberspace Sciences & Emergency Management”
http://www.inderscience.com/ijcsem

Computational Biology, Bioinformatics and System Biology;
Human Microbiome and Medical Ecology;
Computational/Biological Evolutions, Evolutionary Computing;
Bio-Inspired Computing and Communications;
Reliability, Survivability, Security, and Strategic Information Warfare.

[2]Ma, Z. S. 2011. Ecological ‘theater’ for evolutionary computing ‘play’: some insights from population ecology and evolutionary ecology. I. Journal of Bio-Inspired Computing 4(1):31-55.

[3]Ma, Z. S. 2011. Did we miss some evidence of chaos in laboratory insect populations? Population Ecology, 53:405–412.

[4]Ma, Z. S. 2011. Frailty modeling for risk analysis in network security and survivability.I.J. Computer and Information Security, 4:276-294

[5]Ma, Z. S. 2010. Is Strategic Information Warfare Really Asymmetric? —a New Perspective from the Handicap Principle. Journal of Information Warfare, 9(3): 51-61

[6]Ma, Z. S. et al. 2011. Insect navigation and communication in flight and migration: a potential model for joining and collision avoidance in MAVs (Micro-Aerial Vehicle) and mobile robots fleet control.  Proc. of the 32nd IEEE-AIAA Aerospace Conference. 14pp

[7]Ma, Z. S., R. Millar, R. Hiromoto, A. Krings. 2010. Logics in Animal Cognition: Are They Important to Brain Computer Interfaces (BCI) and Future Space Missions? Proc. 31st IEEE-AIAA Aerospace Conference 2010, 8pp. IEEE Digital Library

[8]Ma, Z. S., A. Zaid, L. J. Forney. 2011. Caring about trees in the forest: incorporating frailty in risk analysis for personalized medicine. Personalized Medicine 8(6).

[9]Zhou, X. et al. 2010. Recent Advances in Understanding the Microbiology of the Female Reproductive Tract and the Causes of Premature Birth. Infectious Diseases in Obstetrics and Gynecology, Volume 2010, Article ID 737425, 10 pages.

[10]Ye, C. X., Z. S. Ma, C. Canon, M. Pop, D. W. Yu. 2011. SparseAssembler: de novo Assembly with the Sparse de Bruijn Graph. http://arxiv.org/abs/1106.2603

[11]Ye, C. X., C. Cannon, Z. S. Ma, D. W. Yu, M. Pop. 2011. SparseAssembler2: Sparse k-mer Graph for Memory Efficient Genome Assembly. http://arxiv.org/abs/1108.3556

[12]Ma, Z. S., H. J. Chen, J. J. Zhang, A. W. Krings, F. Sheldon. 2011. Has the cyber warfare threat been overstated? A cheap talk game-theoretic perspective on the Google-hacking claim.  The 7th Cyberspace Sciences and Information Intelligence Research Workshop, 7th CSIIRW11. October 14-16, 2011. Oak Ridge National Lab, Oak Ridge, USA.

(1) Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) startup funding for the “One-hundred Talented Professors Plan” (PI, Year 2010-2014)
(2) CAS startup funding for the “Exceptional Overseas Technology Talents” (PI, 2011-2014) )
(3) Startup funding from the State Key Laboratory of Genetic Resources & Evolution. (PI, 2011-2014) )
(4) National Science Foundation of China (NFSC) grant: “Ecological theater and evolutionary computing play” (PI, 2012-2015))
(5) National Science Foundation of China (NFSC) grant: “Rapid biodiversity measurement with metagenetics.” (PI: Douglas Yu, 2012-2015)