Yining Ma
Scholar

Yining Ma

Google Scholar ID: 4_VyBTsAAAAJ
Postdoctoral Associate, MIT
Machine LearningOptimizationLearning to OptimizeNeural Combinatorial Optimization
Citations & Impact
All-time
Citations
1,279
 
H-index
18
 
i10-index
23
 
Publications
20
 
Co-authors
18
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Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
  • Published 20+ papers in top-tier venues including ICML, NeurIPS, ICLR, TPAMI, TNNLS, SMCA, and TITS.
  • Serves as an Area Chair (AC) for NeurIPS and has received multiple Best Reviewer Awards at leading AI conferences and journals.
  • Led key research projects such as DACT/NeuOpt (neural k-opt search), N2S/NCS (neural ruin-and-repair), R-DAS (dynamic operator selection), and GLEET/ConfigX (dynamic algorithm configuration).
  • Developed open-source library RL4CO and benchmark platform MetaBox-v2 for learning-guided optimization.
  • Three L2Opt papers accepted at NeurIPS 2025 (including one Spotlight); co-organized the inaugural LEAD 2025 workshop.