Research & Engineering

Gehua Ma

Senior Algorithmic Engineer at ByteDance

I build learning systems that connect long-horizon objectives with reliable credit assignment and memory.

Portrait of Gehua Ma
Hangzhou, China

About

Research Perspective

Connecting learning dynamics, memory, and intelligent behavior.

My work focuses how artificial neural systems can preserve useful experience, assign credit across long horizons, and form generalisable representations. I approach these questions through recommender systems, associative memory, representation learning, and computational neuroscience.

Before, I earned my PhD in Artificial Intelligence at the State Key Lab of Brain-Machine Intelligence, ZJU. My dissertation investigated how sparse latent codes can support recognition, memory formation, and memory-conditioned computation.

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Recognition & Service

Selected honors and academic contributions.

Honors

  • Inaugural Tencent Project UP Talent Initiative 入选首届"青云计划"
  • China Mobile Project Golden Seed Talent Initiative
  • Award of Honor for Graduate of Zhejiang University
  • Outstanding Graduate Student of CCNT, Zhejiang University
  • Graduate of Merit / Triple A Graduate, Zhejiang University

Academic Service

Served for top-tier tracks&journals including NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML, IJCAI, ICASSP, Proceedings of the IEEE, Nature Communications, IEEE TPAMI, IEEE TNNLS, Neural Networks, and related venues.

International Exchange

  • Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2016
  • Technical University of Munich, 2014
  • New York University, 2012

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Selected Research

Work on memory, credit assignment, and learning systems.

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Experience

Applied research across recommender systems, machine intelligence, and computational neuroscience.

  1. 2024.08 - Present

    ByteDance Inc.

    Senior Algorithmic Engineer

    Long-term reward and credit assignment.

  2. 2022.07 - 2024.07

    Liangzhu Laboratory, Medical Center - The First Affiliated Hospital, ZJU School of Medicine

    Research Intern

    Representation learning and associative memory.

  3. 2020.09 - 2024.06
  4. 2020.07 - 2021.06

    Zhejiang Laboratory

    Research Intern

    Very-large-scale quantized networks, neuromorphic algorithms.