Jiaqi Ma
Director at IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Society
Los Angeles, California, United States
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Top SchoolJiaqi Ma is a transportation systems researcher and director with 8+ years of experience bridging academia, federal research, and industry practice in automated driving and mobility systems. As Director of the FHWA/UCLA Center of Excellence on New Mobility and Automated Vehicles and Director of the UCLA Mobility Lab, he leads multidisciplinary projects funded by USDOT, NSF, and state DOTs to translate sensing, cooperative perception, and mobility-digital-twin research into deployable solutions. A Professor at UCLA Samueli and Associate Director of the UCLA Institute of Transportation Studies, he combines deep technical expertise in multimodal sensing and spatial data reasoning with program leadership across large consortia. He serves as Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Open Journal of Intelligent Transportation Systems and chairs the TRB committee on Vehicle-Highway Automation, reflecting influence on both scholarship and practice. Notably, his background spans hands-on research engineering at FHWA and multilingual training in English–Chinese conference interpreting, enabling effective technical communication across global stakeholders. Based in Los Angeles, he balances rigorous system-level modeling with real-world deployment and policy engagement to accelerate safe automated mobility.
8 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Professional Training Program, Conference Interpreting (English-Chinese), Professional Training Program, Conference Interpreting (English-Chinese) at University of International Business and EconomicsM.S., Civil Engineering (Highway and Railway), M.S., Civil Engineering (Highway and Railway) at Beijing Jiaotong UniversityPhD, Civil Engineering (Systems Engineering), PhD, Civil Engineering (Systems Engineering) at University of Virginia
Github Skills (8)
simulation10
sumo10
prototyping10
autonomous-driving10
carla9
full-stack9
automation9
machine-learning9
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (2)
majiaqi/ExtendedKF
May 2018 - Dec 2020
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 2 years 7 months
ucla-mobility/OpenCDA
Jul 2021 - Sep 2022
A generalized framework for prototyping full-stack cooperative driving automation applications under CARLA+SUMO.
Contributions:7 reviews, 15 commits, 7 PRs in 1 year 2 months
cooperative-driving-automationfull-stackprototypingsimulationautomated-driving-systems
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