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2026

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Computer Science

D-Index
118
Citations
59300
World Ranking
159
National Ranking
20

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Computer Science in China Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Computer Science in China Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Computer Science in China Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Computer Science in China Leader Award
  • 2011 - IEEE Fellow For contributions to multimedia information retrieval
  • 2010 - ACM Distinguished Member

Overview

Wei-Ying Ma is affiliated with Tsinghua University in China and works primarily in the field of Medicine. Their research focuses on several subfields including Infectious Diseases, Epidemiology, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, General Health Professions, and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health.

Their main topics of work encompass a range of public health and disease-related issues, notably:

  • HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions
  • HIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk
  • Climate Change and Health Impacts
  • Air Quality and Health Impacts
  • Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health
  • Sex work and related issues
  • Mosquito-borne diseases and control

Wei-Ying Ma has published extensively, with recent papers including:

  • Reducing the health effects of hot weather and heat extremes: from personal cooling strategies to green cities, 2021, The Lancet
  • The 2020 China report of the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change, 2020, The Lancet Public Health
  • The 2021 China report of the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: seizing the window of opportunity, 2021, The Lancet Public Health
  • The 2023 China report of the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: taking stock for a thriving future, 2023, The Lancet Public Health
  • Epidemiology and evolution of Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus, 2012-2020, 2021, Infectious Diseases of Poverty

The frequent co-authors collaborating with Wei-Ying Ma include:

  • Kedi Jiao
  • Meizhen Liao
  • Chuanxi Li
  • Qiyong Liu
  • Qi Zhao

Their work has appeared in multiple publication venues, with notable frequency in:

  • PubMed
  • BMC Public Health
  • UNC Libraries
  • The Lancet Public Health
  • Infectious Diseases of Poverty

Wei-Ying Ma has received professional recognition including being named an IEEE Fellow in 2011 for contributions to multimedia information retrieval and an ACM Distinguished Member in 2010.

Best Publications

  • Texture features for browsing and retrieval of image data

    B.S. Manjunath;W.Y. Ma

  • Mining interesting locations and travel sequences from GPS trajectories

    Yu Zheng;Lizhu Zhang;Xing Xie;Wei-Ying Ma

  • A survey of content-based image retrieval with high-level semantics

    Ying Liu;Dengsheng Zhang;Guojun Lu;Wei-Ying Ma

  • Collaborative Knowledge Base Embedding for Recommender Systems

    Fuzheng Zhang;Nicholas Jing Yuan;Defu Lian;Xing Xie

  • NeTra: a toolbox for navigating large image databases

    Wei-Ying Ma;B. S. Manjunath

  • GeoLife: A Collaborative Social Networking Service among User, Location and Trajectory.

    Yu Zheng;Xing Xie;Wei-Ying Ma

  • Understanding mobility based on GPS data

    Yu Zheng;Quannan Li;Yukun Chen;Xing Xie

  • NeTra: a toolbox for navigating large image databases

    W.Y. Ma;B.S. Manjunath

  • VIPS: a Vision-based Page Segmentation Algorithm

    Deng Cai;Shipeng Yu;Ji-Rong Wen;Wei-Ying Ma

  • Learning to cluster web search results

    Hua-Jun Zeng;Qi-Cai He;Zheng Chen;Wei-Ying Ma

  • Mining user similarity based on location history

    Quannan Li;Yu Zheng;Xing Xie;Yukun Chen

  • Dual learning for machine translation

    Di He;Yingce Xia;Tao Qin;Liwei Wang

  • Recommending friends and locations based on individual location history

    Yu Zheng;Lizhu Zhang;Zhengxin Ma;Xing Xie

  • Probabilistic query expansion using query logs

    Hang Cui;Ji-Rong Wen;Jian-Yun Nie;Wei-Ying Ma

  • Understanding transportation modes based on GPS data for web applications

    Yu Zheng;Yukun Chen;Quannan Li;Xing Xie

  • A visual attention model for adapting images on small displays

    Li-Qun Chen;Xing Xie;Xin Fan;Wei-Ying Ma

  • Extracting content structure for web pages based on visual representation

    Deng Cai;Shipeng Yu;Ji-Rong Wen;Wei-Ying Ma

  • EdgeFlow: a technique for boundary detection and image segmentation

    Wei-Ying Ma;B.S. Manjunath

  • Hierarchical clustering of WWW image search results using visual, textual and link information

    Deng Cai;Xiaofei He;Zhiwei Li;Wei-Ying Ma

  • Detecting web page structure for adaptive viewing on small form factor devices

    Yu Chen;Wei-Ying Ma;Hong-Jiang Zhang

  • Dual Learning for Machine Translation

    Yingce Xia;Di He;Tao Qin;Liwei Wang

Frequent Co-Authors

Xing Xie
Xing Xie Microsoft Research Asia (China)
Zheng Chen
Zheng Chen Microsoft Research Asia (China)
Ji-Rong Wen
Ji-Rong Wen Renmin University of China
Lei Zhang
Lei Zhang International Digital Economy Academy
Hua-Jun Zeng
Hua-Jun Zeng Rulai, Inc.
Benyu Zhang
Benyu Zhang Ant Group
Tie-Yan Liu
Tie-Yan Liu Microsoft (United States)
Mingjing Li
Mingjing Li Microsoft (United States)
Zhiwei Li
Zhiwei Li Microsoft (United States)

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