Civil and Environmental Engineering
Computer Science
Jiaqi Ma
Professor
- 4731G Boelter Hall
- jiaqima@ucla.edu
- (310) 206-3212
Faculty Information
Research and Interests
Automated driving, mobile robots; autonomous systems and physical AI agents; multimodal sensing, cooperative perception and decision making; vehicle-to-everything, multi-agent systems; roadway digital infrastructure, mobility digital twins; trustworthiness of cyber-physical and intelligent transportation systems; spatial data mining, reasoning, and simulation.
In the News
- Optimizing the LA Wildfire Debris Removal Mission: USACE Leverages Expertise Across Academia, Industry, Military Logistics | U.S. Army Newsroom, March 2025
- Waymo on Freeways | LAist, February 2025
- “Data in the Desert” hints at the future of autonomous vehicles | ARS Technica, October 2022
- Autonomous Vehicles Can Be Tricked Into Dangerous Driving Behavior | Clean Technica, June 2022
- Autonomous vehicles can be tricked into dangerous driving behavior | Tech Xplore, May 2022
Education
- Ph.D., (2014), University of Virginia
- M.S., (2013), University of Virginia
- B.S., (2008), Beijing Jiaotong University
Awards and Recognition
- 2023: Editor-In-Chief, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Open Journal of Intelligent Transportation Systems