Jiaqi Ma
Director at UCLA Institute of Transportation Studies
Los Angeles, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJiaqi Ma is Director of the FHWA/UCLA Center of Excellence on New Mobility and Automated Vehicles and a Professor at UCLA Samueli who leads the UCLA Mobility Lab and serves as Associate Director of the UCLA Institute of Transportation Studies. He directs major federally and state-funded programs on automated driving, cooperative perception, mobile robotics and mobility digital twins, and is Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Open Journal of Intelligent Transportation Systems while chairing TRB’s Vehicle-Highway Automation committee. Trained as a systems engineer (PhD, University of Virginia) with hands-on experience at FHWA/Leidos, he bridges academic rigor and operational deployment to inform simulation-driven policy and decision-making. His interdisciplinary portfolio and professional training in English–Chinese conference interpreting underscore a rare blend of deep technical expertise and cross-cultural communication in the global mobility community.
7 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 UniversityM.S., Civil and Systems Engineering (Transportation, Planning for Operations), M.S., Civil and Systems Engineering (Transportation, Planning for Operations) at University of Virginia
Github Skills (8)
simulation10
sumo10
prototyping10
autonomous-driving10
carla9
full-stack9
machine-learning9
automation9
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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