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66
Citations
17615
World Ranking
1140
National Ranking
474

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2016 - IEEE Fellow For contributions to block transmissions over wireless fading channels

Overview

Xiaoli Ma is affiliated with the Georgia Institute of Technology in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on engineering and materials science, with notable work in mechanical engineering, materials chemistry, civil and structural engineering, renewable energy, sustainability and the environment, and building and construction.

The researcher's contributions span several key topics, including:

  • Advanced Thermoelectric Materials and Devices
  • Thermal Radiation and Cooling Technologies
  • Refrigeration and Air Conditioning Technologies
  • Building Energy and Comfort Optimization
  • Heat Transfer and Optimization
  • Thermal properties of materials
  • Solar Thermal and Photovoltaic Systems

Frequent coauthors in Xiaoli Ma's work include Xudong Zhao, Samson Shittu, Guiqiang Li, Yousef Golizadeh Akhlaghi, and Ali Badiei.

Their research has been published repeatedly in several academic venues, notably:

  • Applied Energy
  • Energy
  • Energy Conversion and Management
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Applied Thermal Engineering

Among recent published papers are:

  • "Review of thermoelectric geometry and structure optimization for performance enhancement" (2020), Applied Energy
  • "Experimental study and exergy analysis of photovoltaic-thermoelectric with flat plate micro-channel heat pipe" (2020), Energy Conversion and Management
  • "Comprehensive study and optimization of concentrated photovoltaic-thermoelectric considering all contact resistances" (2020), Energy Conversion and Management
  • "Electrical and mechanical analysis of a segmented solar thermoelectric generator under non-uniform heat flux" (2020), Energy
  • "Transient and non-uniform heat flux effect on solar thermoelectric generator with phase change material" (2020), Applied Thermal Engineering

Xiaoli Ma was recognized as an IEEE Fellow in 2016 for contributions to block transmissions over wireless fading channels.

Best Publications

  • Thermoelectrics: a review of present and potential applications

    S.B Riffat;Xiaoli Ma

  • Large Intelligent Surface-Assisted Wireless Communication Exploiting Statistical CSI

    Yu Han;Wankai Tang;Shi Jin;Chao-Kai Wen

  • Adaptive state feedback and tracking control of systems with actuator failures

    G. Tao;S.M. Joshi;X. Ma

  • Optimal training for block transmissions over doubly selective wireless fading channels

    Xiaoli Ma;G.B. Giannakis;S. Ohno

  • On Mean Absolute Error for Deep Neural Network Based Vector-to-Vector Regression

    Jun Qi;Jun Du;Sabato Marco Siniscalchi;Xiaoli Ma

  • OFDM or single-carrier block transmissions?

    Zhengdao Wang;Xiaoli Ma;G.B. Giannakis

  • Non-data-aided carrier offset estimators for OFDM with null subcarriers: identifiability, algorithms, and performance

    Xiaoli Ma;C. Tepedelenlioglu;G.B. Giannakis;S. Barbarossa

  • Improving the coefficient of performance of thermoelectric cooling systems: a review

    S. B. Riffat;Xiaoli Ma

  • Maximum-diversity transmissions over doubly selective wireless channels

    Xiaoli Ma;G.B. Giannakis

  • Performance Analysis of the Raft Consensus Algorithm for Private Blockchains

    Dongyan Huang;Xiaoli Ma;Shengli Zhang

  • Space-time coding and Kalman filtering for time-selective fading channels

    Zhiqiang Liu;Xiaoli Ma;G.B. Giannakis

  • Variational Quantum Circuits for Deep Reinforcement Learning

    Samuel Yen-Chi Chen;Chao-Han Huck Yang;Jun Qi;Pin-Yu Chen

  • Optimal training for MIMO frequency-selective fading channels

    Xiaoli Ma;Liuqing Yang;G.B. Giannakis

  • Deep Learning-Based Channel Estimation for Doubly Selective Fading Channels

    Yuwen Yang;Feifei Gao;Xiaoli Ma;Shun Zhang

  • Performance analysis for MIMO systems with lattice-reduction aided linear equalization

    Xiaoli Ma;Wei Zhang

  • Channel Estimation for Extremely Large-Scale Massive MIMO Systems

    Yu Han;Shi Jin;Chao-Kai Wen;Xiaoli Ma

  • Full-diversity full-rate complex-field space-time coding

    Xiaoli Ma;G.B. Giannakis

  • Space Time Coding for Broadband Wireless Communications

    Georgios B. Giannakis;Zhiqiang Liu;Xiaoli Ma;Shengli Zhou

  • A novel thermoelectric refrigeration system employing heat pipes and a phase change material: an experimental investigation

    S.B. Riffat;S.A. Omer;Xiaoli Ma

  • High performance and thermal stress analysis of a segmented annular thermoelectric generator

    Samson Shittu;Guiqiang Li;Xudong Zhao;Xiaoli Ma

  • Element-Based Lattice Reduction Algorithms for Large MIMO Detection

    Qi Zhou;Xiaoli Ma

Frequent Co-Authors

Georgios B. Giannakis
Georgios B. Giannakis University of Minnesota
Shengli Zhou
Shengli Zhou University of Connecticut
Geert Leus
Geert Leus Delft University of Technology
Gee-Kung Chang
Gee-Kung Chang Georgia Institute of Technology
Xinping Guan
Xinping Guan Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Ananthram Swami
Ananthram Swami United States Army Research Laboratory
Cailian Chen
Cailian Chen Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Gang Tao
Gang Tao University of Virginia
Feifei Gao
Feifei Gao Tsinghua University
Shi Jin
Shi Jin Southeast University

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