Hubei University of Chinese Medicine College of Information Engineering
Research Interests
TCM Big Data Analysis
TCM Evidence-Based Decision Analysis
TCM Data Processing and Analysis
Knowledge Graph and Machine Learning in TCM
Acupoint Compatibility Prediction and Recommendation Systems
Protein Complex Detection; Disease Risk Prediction
Professional Affiliations
- Standing Director, TCM Information Committee, China Association of Chinese Medicine
- Standing Director, TCM Big Data Branch, China Information Institute of TCM
- Standing Director, Information Education Branch, China Information Institute of TCM
- Director, Western Returned Scholars Association of Hubei University of Chinese Medicine
Academic Honors
- 2025 CNKI National Highly Cited Scholars Top 5% (Traditional Chinese Medicine)
- Supervised student teams winning 10+ provincial/ministerial awards in national statistical modeling and mathematical modeling competitions
Professional Experience
1994-1998
B.S. in Mathematics, Central China Normal University (1994-1998)
B.S. in Mathematics, Central China Normal University (1994-1998)
2002-2005
M.Med. in Epidemiology and Health Statistics, Wuhan University (2002-2005)
M.Med. in Epidemiology and Health Statistics, Wuhan University (2002-2005)
2006-2012
Ph.D. in Internal Medicine of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Hubei University of Chinese Medicine (2006-2012)
Ph.D. in Internal Medicine of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Hubei University of Chinese Medicine (2006-2012)
Professor and Master's Supervisor, College of Information Engineering, Hubei University of Chinese Medicine (present)
Professor and Master's Supervisor, College of Information Engineering, Hubei University of Chinese Medicine (present)
Vice Dean of College of Information Engineering
Vice Dean of College of Information Engineering
Director of University-level TCM Big Data Development Research Center
Director of University-level TCM Big Data Development Research Center
Biography
Professor Ma Li is a Professor, Master's Supervisor, Vice Dean of the College of Information Engineering, and Director of the University-level TCM Big Data Development Research Center at Hubei University of Chinese Medicine. She holds a B.S. in Mathematics from Central China Normal University, an M.Med. in Epidemiology and Health Statistics from Wuhan University, a Ph.D. in Internal Medicine of TCM from Hubei University of Chinese Medicine, and completed postdoctoral research in TCM Informatics at the China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences. She was a visiting scholar at Claremont University, USA (2013-2014) and Kyungpook National University, South Korea (2023-2024). Her research focuses on TCM big data analysis and TCM evidence-based decision analysis. She has published 50+ papers as first/corresponding author with nearly 20 SCI/EI-indexed, co-edited 2 books, applied for 5 software copyrights and 1 invention patent. She has led or participated in 20+ research projects with over RMB 1 million in funding. Her student teams have won 10+ provincial/ministerial awards in statistical modeling and mathematical modeling competitions. She was listed in the 2025 CNKI National Highly Cited Scholars Top 5% (Traditional Chinese Medicine).
Awards & Recognition
- Supervised student teams winning 10+ provincial/ministerial awards in National College Student Statistical Modeling Competition, Mathematical Modeling Competition, and other discipline competitions
Publications & Representative Works
Complete Bibliography
2026
Pan P, Peng X, Xu L, Ma L, Peng Y. A novel TEA-CGAN framework for mitigating class imbalance in disease risk prediction. Network Modeling Analysis in Health Informatics and Bioinformatics, 2026, 15(1): 120. (SCI)
2025
Guang B, Li R, Gao X, Ma L (Corresponding Author). Machine learning algorithm combined with molecular docking to analyze the mechanism of Zuogui pills in the treatment of liver cancer. Journal of South-Central University for Nationalities (Natural Science Edition), 2025, 44(2): 193-200. (DOI: 10.20056/j.cnki.ZNMDZK.20250208)
2025
Li J, Pan P, Wu S, Ma L, Peng Y. A Feature-Aware Approach to Acupoint Compatibility Prediction Using Residual Graph Attention Networks and Matrix Factorization. IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics, 2025, 29(5): 3750-3761. (SCI, DOI: 10.1109/JBHI.2024.3525040)
2025
Tu M, Li J, Gao X, Ma L. A Novel GAER-GMM Framework for Overlapping Protein Complex Detection in Protein Interaction Networks. IEEE Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, 2025, 22(6): 3486-3499. (SCI, DOI: 10.1109/TCBBIO.2025.3629089)
2024
DRL-assisted task offloading in enhanced time-expanded graph (eTEG)-modeled aerial computing. Computer Communications, 2024, art. 107954. (SCI)
2024
Li J, Wu S, Tu M, Peng Y, Ma L. An enhanced graph convolutional network with property fusion for acupoint recommendation. Applied Intelligence, 2024, 54(22): 11536-11546. (SCI, DOI: 10.1007/s10489-024-05792-5)
2023
SimCLR-Inception: An Image Representation Learning and Recognition Model for Robot Vision. ACPR 2023 (Asian Conference on Pattern Recognition), pp. 137-147. (EI)
2023
Zhu Y, Ma L, Ni J, Li Y. A bootstrap method to calculate the p-value of Fisher's combination for a large number of weakly dependent p-values. Communications in Statistics: Simulation and Computation, 2023, 52(9): 4210-4217. (SCI)
2019
Ye L, Xu X, Ma L, Zhu Y, Shi H, Cai J. Research on treatment and medication rule of insomnia treated by TCM based on data mining. IEEE BIBM 2019, pp. 2503-2508. (EI)
2019
Wei X, Zhao Y, Chen X, Ma L. Summarizing Professor Chen Ruquan's Therapeutic Experience of Thyroid Disease Based on Machine Learning. IEEE BIBM 2019, pp. 2481-2485. (EI)
2018
Wang H, Liu J, Yu X, Ma L, Cai J, Shen S. Research methods about data mining technology in the study medication Rule on Famous Veteran TCM Doctors of TCM. IEEE BIBM 2018, pp. 1948-1952. (EI, DOI: 10.1109/BIBM.2018.8621494)
2017
Li T, Ma L. Path analysis of total hospitalization cost of diabetic patients in TCM hospitals. Health Economics Research, 2017(10): 33-36.
Li S, Wu S, Guang B, Yan S, Ma L. Exploring acupoint characteristics and core combinations of acupuncture treatment for thyroid nodules based on literature mining.
