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Yao Ma (Fed)

Electronics Engineer

Shared Spectrum Metrology Group

yao.ma [at] nist.gov

(303) 497-3238

ORCID iD

0000-0002-9061-3999

Staff Employment

From 2000 to 2001, Member of Technical Staff at Center for Wireless Communication, Singapore

From 2001 to 2002, Post-doctorate Fellow at ECE Dept, University of Toronto, Canada

From 2002 to 2009, Assistant Professor at the ECpE department, Iowa State University

From 2009 to 2011, EE department, Wright State University, OH

From 2011 to 2014, Air Force Research Laboratory, Sensors Directorate, OH

2015, Infoscitex Inc. Dayton, OH

July 2015 to present, Communication Technology Laboratory, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder, CO

Staff Education

B.Eng. degree, Electrical Engineering and Information Science Dept., Anhui University, China, 1993
M. Sc. degree, Electrical Engineering and Information Science Dept., University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), 1996
PhD degree, Electrical Engineering, National University of Singapore, 2000.

Since July 2015, Yao Ma has been with Communication Technology Laboratory, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder CO, USA. He has served as Project Leader of the Wireless Coexistence research since 2018.

His work covers general area of wireless communication and networks, with recent focus on spectrum sharing of 4G, 5G cellular and Wi-Fi networks, including theoretical development, simulation and modeling, and hardware programming and experiments.

He has been an associate editor for the IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology since 2004 and
he was a former editor for the IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications.

Publications

WLAN 802.11ax Airtime Utilization Measurements

February 18, 2025

Author(s)

Nadia Yoza Mitsuishi, Jason Coder, Yao Ma

Due to the increasing demand for wireless services, the IEEE 802.11ax WLAN standard was released to enable improved performance, coverage, and spectrum

WLAN Protocols Identification Using Machine Learning and Ensemble Models

January 7, 2025

Author(s)

Akimun Jannat Alvina, Yao Ma, Mark Golkowski

The growing demand for wireless communications has caused significant spectrum congestion, requiring multiple WLAN protocols to share limited spectrum resources

Interference Analysis of WLAN and 5G Coexisting with Fixed Satellite Services in the 6 GHz Band

December 6, 2024

Author(s)

Nadia Yoza Mitsuishi, Yao Ma, Jason Coder

Due to the increasing demand for spectrum to support unlicensed technologies, the 6 GHz band was opened for unlicensed use in the United States in 2020

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Shared Spectrum Metrology Group

yao.ma [at] nist.gov

(303) 497-3238

ORCID iD

0000-0002-9061-3999

Staff Employment

From 2000 to 2001, Member of Technical Staff at Center for Wireless Communication, Singapore

From 2001 to 2002, Post-doctorate Fellow at ECE Dept, University of Toronto, Canada

From 2002 to 2009, Assistant Professor at the ECpE department, Iowa State University

From 2009 to 2011, EE department, Wright State University, OH

From 2011 to 2014, Air Force Research Laboratory, Sensors Directorate, OH

2015, Infoscitex Inc. Dayton, OH

July 2015 to present, Communication Technology Laboratory, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder, CO

Staff Education

B.Eng. degree, Electrical Engineering and Information Science Dept., Anhui University, China, 1993
M. Sc. degree, Electrical Engineering and Information Science Dept., University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), 1996
PhD degree, Electrical Engineering, National University of Singapore, 2000.

Created June 5, 2019, Updated December 9, 2022

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