Ao Ma is a principal engineer at the Advanced Development Group of EMC Core Technology Division, part of the CTO office, where he works on innovations in file system and storage technologies.

He published papers on top storage system conferences and journals. Ao also has 1 patent granted, 6 patents filed, and was awarded the Excellence@EMC Platinum Award (2014) and Excellence@EMC Gold Award(2013) for his contribution to the company.