Professor of Computer Science, Miami University
About Me
Liran Ma is a Naus Family Faculty Scholar Professor and Chair of the Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering at Miami University.
His current research interests cover AI, quantum computing, security of information and intelligent systems, and effective education of AI and quantum and cybersecurity to learners with varied backgrounds and prior knowledge (Eureka Labs).
Research
Current projects: Agentic AI Security and Quantum Computing for Healthcare.
Selected recent publications:
- E. Nahid et al., “Q-Interference: Memory-Efficient Phase-Aware Quantum-Inspired Attention,” arXiv preprint, 2026.
- Y. Yang and L. Ma, “Artificial Intelligence in Qualitative Analysis,” Quality & Quantity, 2025.
- H. Tran et al., “HealthLit: A Large Language Model Driven Health Literacy Fidelity Audit and Feedback System,” ACM/IEEE CHASE, 2025.
- H. Xu et al., “Overheard: Audio-based Integral Event Inference,” ACM JDIQ, 2025.
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Teaching
Courses Taught at Miami University:
- CYB 234 System Administration and Scripting for Cybersecurity
- CSE 648 Professional Computing Experience
Recent News
Computing Careers: What the Government Data Says — An interactive data report on job growth, pay, and the labor market for computing graduates, based on federal government data (BLS, September 2026).
Ph.D. student Qingwen Liu’s paper “Non-Separable Wire Cutting: Enhancing Quantum Compilation” has been accepted to IEEE QCE 2026.