Join Us

We are actively seeking highly motivated individuals to join our lab as Ph.D. students, postdoctoral researchers, master’s students, undergraduate researchers, or visiting scholars. Our lab focuses on cutting-edge research at the intersection of artificial intelligence, mobility systems, and cyber-physical infrastructure, and we welcome candidates passionate about building the future of intelligent transportation.

Current research topics in our lab include:

• Autonomous and cooperative driving
• Multi-agent perception, prediction, and planning
• Vision-language and foundation models for driving
• Generative behavior modeling
• Infrastructure-based multi-modal perception
• Mixed-reality testing and digital twins
• Mobility network optimization and resilience
• Spatiotemporal mobility intelligence
• AI agent modeling and simulation at city scale
• Data-driven transportation planning

Selected candidates will contribute to one or more of these areas, including hands-on work with connected and automated vehicles (CAVs) for perception, planning, and control experiments, as well as analysis, modeling, and large-scale simulation of future mobility systems.

Candidates are required to have strong programming skills (e.g., Python, C++, Java), with experience in large-scale software development projects beyond basic coursework.

We are particularly interested in applicants with backgrounds in:

• Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
• Robotics and Control Systems
• Data Science and Large-Scale Simulation
• Computer Vision and Multi-modal Perception
• Transportation Engineering and Cyber-Physical Systems

If interested, please contact Dr. Jiaqi Ma at jiaqima@ucla.edu with with your CV and a brief statement of interest. Funding is available, and compensation is based on experience and qualifications.