Erfang Ma Ph.D.

Lecturer

I received MSc degree in Control Science and Engineering in 2006 from Harbin Institute of Technology. In 2013, I completed my PhD degree in Physcis at The University of Otago, New Zealand. I jointed Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University as a lecturer in 2012.


  • Ph.D. , University of Otago, - 2013
  • M.Sc , Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China - 2006
  • B.S. , Harbin Engineering University, Harbin - 2004


  • Lecturer, Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University - 2012 to Present


  • Electrical impedance tomography Accelerated Markov chain Monte Carlo Inverse problems in science and engineering.


  • Ma, Erfang 2020 "Integral formulation of the complete electrode model of electrical impedance tomography", Inverse Problems and Imaging, vol.14, no.2, 385-398
  • Ma, Erfang 2018 "Convergence of finite element approximation for electrical impedance tomography with the complete electrode model", Journal of Physics Communications, Vol.2. no. 8"
  • Ma, Erfang 2014 'Efficient Markov chain Monte Carlo Sampling for electrical impedance tomography', Computer Assisted Methods in Engineering and Science, vol. , no. , p. 223-232


  • Erfang.Ma, Convergence of finite element approximation for electrical impedance tomography In: The 18th International Conference on Biomedical Applications of Electrical Impedance Tomography, Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth, Hanover, New Hampshire, USA, 2017
  • (2012-2013) Swap moves for MCMC applied to electrical impedance tomography In: The 19th Electronics New Zealand Conference (ENZCon), pp. 141-144
  • (2008-2009) A toy example of electrical impedance imaging using computational inference In: The 16th Electronics New Zealand Conferene (ENZCon), pp. 49-53


  • 2020, The IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging / Current-based forward solver for electrical impedance tomography
  • 2017, 18th International Conference on Biomedical Applications of Electrical Impedance Tomography / Convergence of finite element approximation in electrical impedance tomography
  • 2014-2015, 8th International Conference on inverse problems in science and engineering / Efficient Markov chain Monte Carlo sampling for electrical impedance tomography


  • Ma, Erfang & Niu, Q 2014, Principal Investigator, Research Development Fund from Xi'an Jiaotong-LIverpool University, 0.0000, Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University


  • MTH008 Dynamic Modelling


  • MTH113 Introduction to Probability and Statistics
  • MTH116 Fundation of Financial Computing
  • MTH007 Linear algebra
  • MTH002 Multivariable Calculus and Statistics
  • MTH004 Multivariable Calculus (Business and Arts)
  • MTH019 Calculus (Business and Arts)
Erfang Ma