Rate My Professor Jie Ma

Jie Ma is a professor at the School of Mathematical Sciences at the University of Science and Technology of China. He earned his B.S. degree from the School of Mathematical Sciences at USTC in 2007 and his Ph.D. degree in 2011 from the School of Mathematics at the Georgia Institute of Technology, where he was supervised by Professor Xingxing Yu. Prior to his current position, he served as a Hedrick Assistant Professor in the Department of Mathematics at UCLA and as a Postdoctoral Associate in the Department of Mathematical Sciences at Carnegie Mellon University.

Professor Ma’s research focuses on extremal combinatorics, graph theory, and probabilistic methods in combinatorics. He serves as Managing Editor of the Journal of Combinatorial Theory, Series B, as a member of the Editorial Board of Combinatorica, and as an Associate Editor of the SIAM Journal on Discrete Mathematics. He has received the National Science Fund for Excellent Young Scholars in 2016, the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars in 2021, and funding from the National Key Research and Development Program of China in 2023.