About

Dr. Jiaqi Ma is the Director of the FHWA/UCLA Center of Excellence on New Mobility and Automated Vehicles, a Professor at the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering, Director of the UCLA Mobility Lab, and Associate Director of the UCLA Institute of Transportation Studies. He has led and managed numerous research projects funded by the U.S. Department of Transportation, National Science Foundation, state Departments of Transportation, and other federal, state, and local agencies. His primary research interests include automated driving, mobile robotics, multimodal sensing, cooperative perception and decision-making, mobility digital twins, spatial data mining, reasoning, and simulation. Dr. Ma serves as Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Open Journal of Intelligent Transportation Systems. He is Chair of the Transportation Research Board (TRB) Standing Committee on Connected and Automated Vehicle Systems and a member of the Board of Governors of the IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Society.