Congbo Ma

Postdoctoral Research Fellow
School of Computing
Macquarie University






I am a postdoctoral research fellow at Macquarie University, working with Associate Professor Jia Wu. During my doctoral studies, I worked under the supervision of Dr. Wei (Emma) Zhang, Dr. Mingyu Guo and Dr. Weitong Chen at the University of Adelaide. Prior to this, I gained research experience as a research assistant while working under the supervision of Professor Steven Hoi at the Singapore Management University. My research interests lie in natural language processing, data mining, medical machine learning, and multi-modal learning, etc.

News

  • March 2024: One multi-document summarization paper has been accepted by WCCI-IJCNN 2024.
  • Feb 2024: One social event detection paper has been accepted by WWW 2024.
  • Feb 2024: I will be a tutor and guest lecturer for advance natural language course at Macquarie University.

    Publications

    Disentangling Specificity for Abstractive Multi-Document Summarization.
    C Ma, WE Zhang, H Wang, H ZHuang, M Guo
    Accepted by WCCI-IJCNN 2024
    To be appear

    An Efficient Automatic Meta-Path Selection for Social Event Detection via Hyperbolic Space.
    Z Qiu, C Ma, J Wu, J Yang
    Accepted by WWW 2024
    To be appear

    Learnable cross-modal knowledge distillation for multi-modal learning with missing modality.
    H Wang, C Ma, J Zhang, Y Zhang, J Avery, L Hull, G Carneiro
    International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention (MICCAI 2023)
    [PDF]

    Data hiding with deep learning: a survey unifying digital watermarking and steganography.
    Z Wang, O Byrnes, H Wang, R Sun, C Ma, H Chen, Q Wu, M Xue
    IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems
    [PDF]

    Multi-modal Learning with Missing Modality via Shared-Specific Feature Modeling.
    H Wang, Y Chen, C Ma, J Avery, L Hull, G Carneiro
    IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 2023 (CVPR 2023)
    [PDF]

    An Empirical Study on Topic Preservation in Multi-Document Summarization.
    M Sim, WE Zhang, C Ma
    Asia-Pacific Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics and International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (AACL-IJCNLP SRW 2022)
    [PDF]

    Learning From the Source Document: Unsupervised Abstractive Summarization.
    H Zhuang, WE Zhang, J Yang, C Ma, Y Qu and QZ Sheng.
    2022 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2022 Findings)
    [PDF]

    Incorporating Linguistic Knowledge for Abstractive Multi-document Summarization.
    C Ma, WE Zhang, H Wang, S Gupta ,M Guo
    Pacific Asia Conference on Language Information and Computation 2022 (PACLIC 2022)
    [PDF]

    Combining Document-aware Encoding and Linguistic-guided Encoding for Abstractive Multi-document Summarization.
    C Ma, WE Zhang, PD Pitawela, Y Qu, H Zhuang, H Wang
    IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence 2022 (WCCI 2022)
    [PDF]

    Multi-document Summarization via Deep Learning Techniques: A Survey.
    C Ma, WE Zhang, M Guo, H Wang, QZ Sheng
    ACM Computing Survey (2022)
    [PDF]

    Uncertainty-aware Multi-modal Learning via Cross-modal Random Network Prediction.
    H Wang, J Zhang, Y Chen, C Ma, J Avery, L Hull, G Carneiro
    European Conference on Computer Vision 2022 (ECCV 2022)
    [PDF]

    Improving Deep Learning based Multi-document Summarization through Linguistic Knowledge.
    C Ma
    International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Doctoral Consortium Paper (SIGIR’21)
    [PDF]

    Multi-intersection Traffic Optimisation: A Benchmark Dataset and a Strong Baseline.
    H Wang, H Chen, Q Wu, C Ma, Y Li, C Shen
    IEEE Open Journal of Intelligent Transportation System (2021)
    [PDF] [Code]

    The 10 research topics in the Internet of Things.
    WE Zhang, QZ Sheng, A Mahmood, M Zaib, SAHamad, A Aljubairy, AAF Alhazmi, S Sagar, C Ma
    IEEE 6th International Conference on Collaboration and Internet Computing 2020 (CIC 2020)
    [PDF]

    Unsupervised Representation Learning by Predicting Random Distances.
    H Wang, G Pang, C Shen, C Ma
    International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence 2020 (IJCAI 2020)
    [PDF] [Code]

    Multi-label thoracic disease image classification with cross-attention networks.
    C Ma, H Wang, SCH Hoi
    Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Interventions 2019 (MICCAI 2019)
    [PDF]

    Randomized online CP decomposition.
    C Ma, X Yang, H Wang
    International Conference on Advanced Computational Intelligence 2018 (ICACI 2018)
    [PDF]

    A Fast Image Matting Method based on Interval-line Sampling.
    H Wang, Z Yang, C Ma
    IEEE International Conference on Computational Science and Engineering 2017 (ICSE 2017)
    [PDF]

    Activities / Experience

  • Advanced Natural Language Processing (2024), Macquarie University, Guest Lecturer, Tutor
  • Artificial Intelligence (2023), The University of Adelaide, Guest Lecturer, Tutor
  • Concepts in Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning (2022), The University of Adelaide, Tutor
  • Artificial Intelligence (2022), The University of Adelaide, Tutor
  • Distributed Databases and Data Mining (2021), The University of Adelaide, Tutor
  • Applied Natural Language Processing (2020), The University of Adelaide, Tutor
  • Discrete mathematics Class (2016), South China University of Technology, Tutor