Dr. Ma has served as a vice president and the head of the AI Laboratory at ByteDance, where he is responsible for the fundamental research and technology development in the fields of, among others, machine learning, computer vision, speech and audio processing, natural language processing and personalized recommendation and search engine. Before joining ByteDance, Dr. Ma worked at Microsoft Research Asia as assistant managing director. Dr. Ma has also served as a guest professor in computer science at National Taiwan University.
Dr. Ma has over 160 granted patents and has published more than 300 papers in prestigious international journals and conferences, including various IEEE publications and the International Conference on World Wide Web (WWW). He served on the editorial boards of several professional journals including ACM Transactions on Information System, and co-chaired many international conferences. Dr. Ma was accredited as a fellow of the IEEE in 2011 and a Distinguished Scientist by ACM in 2010.
Dr. Ma holds a Ph.D. and a master’s degree in electrical and computer engineering from the University of California, Santa Barbara and received a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from National Tsing Hua University.