Publications （*corresponding author)

Journal Papers:

[23] Deng T, Gao Y, Zhang T, Shao M, Ni W, Xu H., “Integrating Large Language Models into Fluid Antenna Systems: A Survey,” in Sensors, 2025

[22] R. Shrestha, M. Shao, M. Hong, W. -K. Ma and X. Fu, “Downlink MIMO Channel Estimation from Bits: Recoverability and Algorithm,” in IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing

[21] Y. Liu, M. Shao and W. -K. Ma, “A Spatial Sigma-Delta Approach to Mitigation of Power Amplifier Distortions in Massive MIMO Downlink,” in IEEE Open Journal of Signal Processing, vol. 6, pp. 900-916, 2025

[20] H. Liu, Q. Li, M. Shao, Y. Zhao and A. L. Swindlehurst, “Quantization Noise as an Asset: Optimizing Physical Layer Security With Sigma-Delta Modulation,” in IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, vol. 20, pp. 6620-6634, 2025

[19] S. Wang, Y. Xu, C. You, M. Shao and T. Q. S. Quek, “Communication-Efficient Federated Learning by Quantized Variance Reduction for Heterogeneous Wireless Edge Networks,” in IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, vol. 24, no. 8, pp. 7632-7647, Aug. 2025

[18] X. Zhang, Y. Xu, M. Shao and Y. C. Eldar, “Wasserstein Distributionally Robust Graph Learning via Algorithm Unrolling,” in IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 73, pp. 676-690, 2025

[17] M. Ge, Y. Liu, M. Shao* and H. Zhang, “Maximum-Likelihood Active Device Detection and Channel Estimation in One-Bit MIMO System”, in IEEE Signal Processing Letters, vol. 32, pp. 141-145, 2025.

[16] Q. Zhang, M. Shao*, T. Zhang, G. Chen and Ju Liu*, “An Efficient Algorithm for Sum-Rate Maximization in Fluid Antenna-Assisted ISAC System”, in IEEE Communication Letters, early access, 2024.

[15] H. Ma, Z. Peng, X. Li, M. Shao*, X. Wu, and J. Liu*, “CLAPSep: Leveraging Contrastive Pre-trained Model for Multi-Modal Query-Conditioned Target Sound Extraction”, in IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing, vol. 32, pp. 4945-4960, 2024.

[14] J. Liu, Y. Liu, W.-K. Ma*, M. Shao and M.-C. So, “Extreme Point Pursuit–Part II: Further Error Bound Analysis and Applications”, in IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 72, pp. 4557-4572, 2024.

[13] J. Liu, Y. Liu, W.-K. Ma*, M. Shao and M.-C. So, “Extreme Point Pursuit–Part I: A Framework for Constant Modulus Optimization”, in IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 72, pp. 4541-4556, 2024.

[12] M. Shao, W.-K. Ma*，J. Liu and Z. Huang, “Accelerated and Deep Expectation Maximization for One-Bit MIMO OFDM Detection”, in IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 72, pp. 1094-1113, 2024.

[11] Y. Cao, W. Zhang, Y. Zhang, G. Sun, W. Guo, M. Shao, S. C. Mukhopadhyay, L. Cui, Y. Li, Z. Liu*, S. Li，“CMAR: A Pipeline for Cross-Modal Alignment and 3D Reconstruction of Coronary Arteries Based on Key Bifurcation Vessel Measurements”, in IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, vol. 73, pp. 1-14, 2024.

[10] Z. Wu, B. Jiang, Y.-F. Liu§, M. Shao and Y.-H. Dai, “Efficient CI-Based One-Bit Precoding for Multiuser Downlink Massive MIMO Systems with PSK Modulation,” in IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 23, no. 5, pp. 4861-4875, 2024

[9] M. Shao, W.-K. Ma* and J. Liu, “An Explanation of Deep MIMO Detection from a Perspective of Homotopy Optimization”, in IEEE Open Journal of Signal Processing, vol. 4, pp. 108-116, 2023.(IEEE OJSP Top 25 popular articles of the year (2022.09-2023.09))

[8] C. Huang#, M. Shao#, W.-K. Ma*, A. M.-C. So, “SISAL Revisted,” in SIAM Journal on Imaging Sciences, vol. 15, no. 2, pp. 591-624, 2022. (# co-first author)

[7] Y. Liu, M. Shao*, W.-K. Ma, Q. Li, “Symbol-Level Precoding Through the Lens of Zero Forcing and Vector Perturbation,” in IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 70, pp. 1687-1703, 2022.

[6] M. Shao and W.-K. Ma*, “Binary MIMO Detection via Homotopy Optimization and Its Deep Adaptation,” in IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 69, pp. 781-796, 2021. (TSP Top 50 popular articles, April 2021)

[5] S. Wang, Q. Li* and M. Shao, “One-Bit Symbol-Level Precoding for MU-MISO Downlink With Intelligent Reflecting Surface,” in IEEE Signal Processing Letters, vol. 27, pp. 1784-1788, 2020.

[4] M. Shao, Q. Li* and W.-K. Ma, “Minimum Symbol-Error Probability Symbol-Level Precoding With Intelligent Reflecting Surface,” in IEEE Wireless Communications Letters, vol. 9, no. 10, pp. 1601-1605, 2020.

[3] M. Shao, W.-K. Ma*, Q. Li and A. L. Swindlehurst, “One-Bit Sigma-Delta MIMO Precoding,” in IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing, vol. 13, no. 5, pp. 1046-1061, 2019. (JSTSP Top 50 popular articles, Dec. 2020)

[2] M. Shao, Q. Li, W.-K. Ma* and A. M.-C. So, “A Framework for One-Bit and Constant-Envelope Precoding Over Multiuser Massive MISO Channels,” in IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 67, no. 20, pp. 5309-5324, 2019. (Google Scholar 引用100+)

[1] J. Wang, W. Chi, M. Shao and M. Q. Meng*, “Finding a High-Quality Initial Solution for the RRTs Algorithms in 2D Environments,” in Robotica, vol. 37, issue 10, pp. 1677-1694, 2019.

Conference Papers：

[23] Y. Gao, L. Zhu, Z. An and M. Shao, “Robust Phase Retrieval from Quantized and Noisy Measurements,” 2025 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing Workshops (ICASSPW), Hyderabad, India, 2025

[22] H. Ma, Z. Zhang, X. Li, Y. Li, M. Shao, Q. Kong, “Language-Queried Target Sound Extraction Without Parallel Training Data,” ICASSP 2025 - 2025 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Hyderabad, India, 2025

[21] Q. Zhang, M. Shao*, Q. Li and J. Liu*, “An efficient algorithm for multiuser sum-rate maximization of large-scale active RIS-aided MIMO system”, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Seoul, Korea, 2024, pp. 9036-9040.

[20] H. Ma, Z. Peng, M. Shao*, J. Li and J. Liu*, “Extending Whisper with prompt tuning to target-speaker ASR”, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Seoul, Korea, 2024, pp. 12516-12520.

[19] C.-Y. Yu, M. Shao, W.-K. Chen, Y.-F. Liu and W.-K. Ma, "An Efficient Global Algorithm for One-Bit Maximum-Likelihood MIMO Detection,” 2023 IEEE 24th International Workshop on Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Communications (SPAWC), Shanghai, China, 2023, pp. 231-235.

[18] J. Liu, M. Shao and W.-K. Ma, “A Probabilistic Semi-Nonnegative Matrix Factorization via Maximum-Likelihood and Variational Inference ”, 31st European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO), Helsinki, Finland, 2023, pp. 1280-1284.

[17] M. Shao, W.-K. Ma and Y. Liu, “Symbol-Level Precoding is Related to Parameter Estimation from Quantized Data”, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2023

[16] Z. Peng#, M. Shao#, X. He, X. Li, T. Lee, K. Ding, G. Wan, “Covariance Regularization for Probabilistic Linear Discriminant Analysis ”, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2023 (#共同一作)

[15] M. Shao, X. Fu, “Massive MIMO Channel Estimation via Compressed and Quantized Feedback,” in 2022 Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers, Pacific Grove, CA, USA, 2022, pp. 1016-1020.

[14] M. Shao, Q. Dai, W.-K. Ma, “Extreme-Point Pursuit For Unit-Modulus Optimization,” 2022 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Singapore, 2022, pp. 5548-5552.

[13] J. Liu, M. Shao, W.-K. Ma, “MIMO Detection by Variational Posterior Inference,” 2022 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Singapore, 2022, pp. 5343-5347.

[12] Y. Liu, M. Shao and W.-K. Ma, “A Homotopy Optimization Method for Orthogonal Non-Negative Matrix Factorization,” 2021 European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO), Dublin, Ireland, 2021, pp. 1085-1089.

[11] M. Shao and W.-K. Ma, “Divide and Conquer: One-Bit MIMO-OFDM Detection by Inexact Expectation Maximization,” 2021 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Toronto, CA, 2021, pp. 4890-4894.

[10] M. Shao, W.-K. Ma and L. Swindlehurst, “Multiuser Massive MIMO Downlink Precoding Using Second-Order Spatial Sigma-Delta Modulation,” 2020 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Barcelona, Spain, 2020, pp. 8966-8970.

[9] Q. Li, Y. Liu, M. Shao and W.-K. Ma, “Proximal Distance Algorithm for Nonconvex QCQP with Beamforming Applications,” 2020 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Barcelona, Spain, 2020, pp. 5155-5159.

[8] M. Shao, W.-K. Ma, Q. Li and L. Swindlehurst, “Spatial Sigma-Delta Modulation for the Massive MIMO Downlink,” 2019 53rd Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers, Pacific Grove, CA, USA, 2019, pp. 833-837.

[7] M. Un, M. Shao, W.-K. Ma and P. C. Ching, “Deep MIMO Detection Using ADMM Unfolding,” 2019 IEEE Data Science Workshop (DSW), Minneapolis, MN, USA, 2019, pp. 333-337.

[6] M. Shao, Q. Li and W.-K. Ma, “Discrete Constant Envelope Transceiver Design for Multiuser Massive MIMO Downlink,” 2019 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Brighton, United Kingdom, 2019, pp. 4684-4688.

[5] Y. Liu, M. Shao and W.-K. Ma, “An ADMM Algorithm for Peak Transmission Energy Minimization in Symbol level Precoding,” 2019 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Brighton, United Kingdom, 2019, pp. 4739-4743.

[4] M. Shao, Q. Li, Y. Liu and W.-k. Ma, “Multiuser One-Bit Massive MIMO Precoding under MPSK Signaling,” 2018 IEEE Global Conference on Signal and Information Processing (GlobalSIP), Anaheim, CA, USA, 2018, pp. 833-837.

[3] M. Shao, Q. Li, W.-K. Ma and A. M.-C. So, “Minimum Symbol Error Rate-Based Constant Envelope Precoding for Multiuser Massive MISO Downlink,” 2018 IEEE Statistical Signal Processing Workshop (SSP), Freiburg, 2018, pp. 727-731.

[2] M. Shao, Q. Li and W.-K. Ma, “One-Bit Massive MIMO Precoding via a Minimum Symbol-Error Probability Design,” 2018 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Calgary, AB, 2018, pp. 3579-3583.

[1] M. Shao and W.-K. Ma, “A Simple Way to Approximate Average Robust Multiuser MISO Transmit Optimization under Covariance-Based CSIT,” 2017 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), New Orleans, LA, 2017, pp. 3504-3508.(Best Student Paper Shortlist)