CV
Contact Information
| Name | Zeli Ma |
| Professional Title | M.S.E Student in Computer Science |
| zma56@jh.edu | |
| Phone | 4434189697 |
Professional Summary
I am broadly interested in Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence, especially their integration with software systems and intelligent automation. My focus lies in exploring how data-driven models and efficient system design can enhance learning performance, scalability, and decision-making in real world applications. I am also keen to apply AI techniques to domains such as computer vision, interactive environments, where intelligence meets system-level engineering.
Research
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2026 - Baltimore, MD, USA
Graduate Research Assistant
Automated Pedicle Screw Trajectory Planning
- Advisor: Prof. Mathias Unberath, Ph.D. Blanca Inigo Romillo
- Developed a Monte Carlo-based path planning pipeline for pedicle screw placement across the full thoracolumbar spine (T1–L5), processing 742 patient CT-derived mesh models and generating 23,000+ validated trajectories with 99% success rate.
- Engineered region-adaptive constraints for 4 anatomical zones to address varying pedicle morphology, and implemented a surface normal-based endplate filter that eliminated 100% of superior/inferior surface violations.
- Built automated batch processing infrastructure with mesh quality control, EDT-based clearance computation, and FCSV output for 3D Slicer visualization and validation.
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2026 - Baltimore, MD, USA
Conditional diffusion model for surgical view planning under C-arm guidance
Action-Conditioned Intraoperative X-ray View Prediction
- Built an observation prediction module for closed-loop surgical view planning: given a current fluoroscopy image and a candidate 6-DoF C-arm motion, a conditional diffusion model (DDPM training / DDIM inference) predicts the X-ray at the resulting viewpoint as a visual preview for a downstream VLM (MedGemma).
- Constructed a DRR training dataset from 827 CT volumes using DeepDRR, sampling 100 poses per case (5 vertebra centers × 20 angles spanning AP/lateral/oblique) and filtering ~1,500 training pairs per case by angular and translation distance thresholds.
- Designed a U-Net backbone with cross-attention for source image conditioning and AdaGroupNorm for injecting a 9-D relative pose embedding (6D rotation + 3D translation).
- Trained with DDPM training / DDIM inference using mixed-precision (fp16) on an RTX 3090.
Experience
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2024 - 2024 Qingdao, China
Intern at Software Development Department
Qingdao Haier Technology Co., Ltd
- Utilized Redis to optimize the system performance bottlenecks under high concurrency; reduced the database visits by approximately 40% and minimized the overall response time.
- Designed and developed a batch-processing mechanism to minimize memory consumption.
- Optimized database query statements, avoided complex nested queries and full table scanning, and added indexes to improve database query performance in high-concurrency scenarios.
- Implemented a delayed double-deletion strategy, as opposed to the asynchronous listening and reliable message-deletion strategy.
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2023 - 2023 Qingdao, China
Intern at Software Development Department
Qingdao Haier Technology Co., Ltd
- Ensured high availability of the user experience cloud platform and resolved performance crashes; designed the app using the SpringBoot and utilized PostgreSQL for data storage and table creation.
- Used Profiler to specify code and performance bottlenecks; implemented strategies such as algorithm optimization and reduction of database access frequency.
- Leveraged Alibaba Cloud’s Prometheus service to evaluate memory utilization patterns, specifying the primary causes such as excessive object creation, memory leaks, and large object presence.
- Adopted the Object Pool Technology to create common objects beforehand, batch-processed big data to reduce memory utilization, and used Bitmap to compress user information data structures.
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2022 - 2023 Hefei, China
Intern at Software Development Department
iFLYTEK Co., Ltd.
- Developed a domain-specific speech recognition pipeline for hydrology and water conservancy engineering.
- Collected and processed fieldwork data, extracting key clauses and terms from technical specifications through custom text-segmentation scripts.
- Built a speech synthesis corpus using Tacotron2_CSMSC, generating multi-timbre audio and aligning text–audio pairs into training, validation, and test datasets.
- Trained and evaluated multiple ASR architectures—DeepSpeech2, Transformer, Conformer, and iFlytek’s open-platform model—on the domain corpus.
- Selected 10–25 top-performing checkpoints based on validation loss and combined them into an optimal averaged model.
- Achieved a 30% improvement in recognition accuracy, reaching a >99% success rate on domain-specific evaluation data.
Education
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2025 - 2027 Baltimore, MD
M.S.E
Johns Hopkins University
Computer Science
- Department of Computer Science, Whiting School of Engineering
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2020 - 2025 Shanghai, China
B.Eng.
Shanghai Institute of Technology
Software Engineering
- CGPA: 4.0/5.0 (Average Score: 90%; Rank: 1/408)
Honors and Awards
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2023 National Scholarship
Shanghai Institute of Technology
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2024 Outstanding Student
Shanghai Institute of Technology
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2023 & 2024 University-Level First-class Scholarship
Shanghai Institute of Technology
Skills
Programming Languages: C/C++, Python, Java, C#
Development Software: Unity, SpringBoot, Redis, Vue
Operating Systems: CentOS, Debian, Ubuntu, Microsoft Windows, Mac OS
Standardized Tests: TOEFL 109 (R30/L30/S22/W27), GRE 320 (V152/Q168 + 3.5)