Dr. Jiaqi Ma is an Associate Professor at the Samueli School of Engineering of the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). He has led and managed many research projects funded by U.S. DOT, NSF, state DOTs, and other federal/state/local programs covering areas of smart transportation systems, such as cooperative driving automation, Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS), large-scale traffic system modeling and simulation, and artificial intelligence and advanced computing applications in transportation. He is Associate Editor of the IEEE Open Journal of Intelligent Transportation Systems and Journal of Intelligent Transportation Systems. He is Member of the Transportation Research Board (TRB) Standing Committee on Vehicle-Highway Automation, Member of TRB Standing Committee on Artificial Intelligence and Advanced Computing Applications, Member of American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) Connected & Autonomous Vehicles Impacts Committee, Co-Chair of the IEEE ITS Society Technical Committee on Smart Mobility and Transportation 5.0.