About

Hi, I am Yitong.

I am a PhD candidate at Jilin University. My primary research interests include (i) federated learning and privacy-preserving machine learning, (ii) robust optimization for reliable AI systems, (iii) high-performance networking for distributed intelligence, (iv) bioinformatics and biomedical data mining. I am actively exploring the broader impacts of my research experience, particularly in secure, efficient, and trustworthy AI systems for biomedical applications and public health.

News

Recent Updates

  • Paper accepted to the SIGKDD 2026 Research Track.
  • Paper accepted to the KDD 2026 AI4Sciences Track.
  • Paper accepted to EUSIPCO 2026.
  • Journal article published in Medical & Biological Engineering & Computing.
  • Journal article published in Interdisciplinary Sciences: Computational Life Sciences.

Selected Publications

Research

SIGKDD 2026

Geometry-Aware Update Control for Robust Optimization

Yitong Ma, Mandi Li, Gang Yan

The 32nd ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD 2026), Research Track.

SIGKDD 2026

ANCHOR: Aligned Non-contextual and Contextual Hybridization with On-condition Calibration for Per-Base Risk Prediction

Yitong Ma, Zilin Ma, Yujie Jia, Kun Bi, Gang Yan

The 32nd ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD 2026), AI4Sciences Track.

EUSIPCO 2026

MAGNet: Multi-Adjacency Graph Network for Spatiotemporal sEMG

Yitong Ma, Peilin Liu, Junxian Li, Gang Yan

The 34th European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO 2026).

Journal 2025

High-Risk Sequence Prediction Model in DNA Storage: The LQSF Method

Yitong Ma, Shuai Chen, Qi Xu, Zuhong Lu, Kun Bi

IEEE Transactions on NanoBioscience, 2025.

Journal 2025

DPCM-DP-EN: a lossless dynamic compress and encrypted encode method for DNA storage of medical images with high storage density

Kun Bi, Zilin Ma, Qi Xu, Ying Zhou, Yitong Ma, Qingjiang Sun, Zuhong Lu

Medical & Biological Engineering & Computing, 2025.

Journal 2025

DP-ID: Interleaving and Denoising to Improve the Quality of DNA Storage Image

Qi Xu, Yitong Ma, Zuhong Lu, Kun Bi

Interdisciplinary Sciences: Computational Life Sciences, 2025.

Awards

Honors

  • ICML Gold Reviewer
  • Outstanding Graduate, Southeast University
  • Honors Graduate, Monash Suzhou Research Institute (10/550)
  • National Scholarship
  • University-level Merit Student, Southeast University

Experience

Internships

  • Tencent, QQ Browser Framework Development Group
  • Aptiv, Intelligent Front Vision Group

Education

Education Experience

  • Ph.D. in Computer Science and Technology, Jilin University, Changchun, Jilin, China
    Advisor: Prof. Gang Yan
  • M.S. in Electronic Information, Southeast University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China
    Advisor: Dr. Kun Bi; Co-advisor: Prof. Jing Tu
  • M.S. in Biotechnology, Monash University, Monash Suzhou Research Institute, Suzhou, Jiangsu, China
    Advisor: Prof. Huazheng Liang
  • B.S. in Computer Science and Technology, Hefei University of Technology, Hefei, Anhui, China
    Advisor: Prof. Peipei Li