Ziqiao "Martin" Ma

Here is a virtual but warm greeting from Ziqiao, as you just came across his page! As many of my non-Chinese friends found it hard to pronounce my Chinese name (马子乔? pronounced as Tsz-Chaw in Mandarin or Tsz-Kiu in Standard Romanization), it's absolutely fine to just call me Martin alternatively.

I am a second-year Ph.D. student at the University of Michigan advised by Professor Joyce Chai as a member of Situated Language and Embodied Dialogue (SLED) Lab, Computer Science and Engineering Department. I am also enrolled in the Cognitive Science program. My current research focuses on Natural Language Processing (Language Grounding, Language Acquisition, Human-Robot Communication), Embodied AI (Navigation, Instruction Following), and Machine Learning (Graph Neural Networks, Data-Efficient Learning).

Prior than that, I obtained my Dual Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science at the University of Michigan and Electrical and Computer Engineering at Shanghai Jiao Tong University.

Updates

News

• [Sep. 2022] I will serve as the Poster/Demo Session Chair for Michigan AI Symposium 2022. Please consider contributing a poster of your work!
• [Aug. 2022] I will be the Graduate Student Instructor for EECS 595 (NLP) in Fall 2022 at Michigan.
• [Aug. 2021] I graduated from SJTU!
• [May. 2021] I graduated from Michigan!
• [Mar. 2021] I will join the family of the Michigan AI as a Ph.D. student this fall. Go Blue!
• [Dec. 2020] I will be the Instructional Aide for EECS 492 (Intro. AI) in Winter 2021 at Michigan.
• [May. 2020] I will be the Teaching Assistant for VE 492 (Intro. AI) and VE 280 (Program. & Intro. Data Struct.) Summer 2020 at SJTU.

Schedule

If you would like to have a random chat with me, please visit my calendly page.

Experience

Education

• University of Michigan, Ann Arbor | Sept 2021 - May 2026 (Expected)
  Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering, Certificate in Cognitive Science
  Advisor: Joyce Chai
• University of Michigan, Ann Arbor | Sept 2019 - May 2021
  B.S.E in Computer Science, Minor in Mathematics (Summa Cum Laude)
  Advisors: Joyce Chai, Qiaozhu Mei, Jie Liu
• Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai | Sept 2017 - Aug 2021
  B.S.E in Electrical and Computer Engineering
  
• Technische Universität Berlin, Berlin | Jan 2019 - Feb 2019
  Visiting Student
  
• Chengdu Foreign Languages School, Chengdu | Sept 2011 - June 2017
  High School

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Selected Projects

* indicates equal contributions.

Research

Partition-Based Active Learning for Graph Neural Networks

Jiaqi Ma*, Ziqiao Ma*, Joyce Chai, Qiaozhu Mei

DLG-KDD (Oral), 2022 | [arxiv][code][poster]

#ActiveLearning #GraphNeuralNetwork

Game Design

Contracts

[trailer][itch.io][indidb][tigsource]

• A turn-based tactic video game.

Floating

[play online][download]

• A physics-based puzzle video game.

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Misc

Mentoring

• Jiayi Pan, B.S. @ UMICH, Ann Arbor, US.
• Yidong (Owen) Huang, B.S. @ UMICH, Ann Arbor, US.
• Eui-In (Elina) Kim, B.S. @ UMICH, Ann Arbor, US.

• Understanding, acquiring and using sensorimotor-grounded language and world knowledge.
• Cognitively motivated human-agent communication in physical environments.
• Machine learning that is (inter)active, data-efficient and continual on (semi-)structured data.

Fun Facts

• I was born and raised up in Chengdu, the home of pandas.
• I am proud of Chengdu Foreign Languages School, my high school, and identify myself as a CFLSer. 成外人永远不会成外人.
• My dream school during high school was The University of Hong Kong (HKU), yet I declined the offer of BSc(QFin) in pursuit of my engineering dream.
• I love literature and drama. I am particularly interested in Shakespeare's plays, ancient Chinese drama and modern Asian literature. Here is one of my essays about Cross-dressed Heroines in Comedies.
• I am a super fan of Nightwish. My favourite album is Imaginaerum.

Friends

• Jimmy Zhang SDE @ Microsoft, Suzhou, China.
• Sway Ye Ph.D. @ SJTU, Shanghai, China.
• Joy Dong Ph.D. @ UMICH, Ann Arbor, US.
• Haoyang Zhang Ph.D. @ UIUC, Champaign, US.
• ...(if you want to get linked just message me 😏)

Mental Support

• Counseling and Support Services @ SJTU
• Resources for Stress and Mental Health @ Michigan.

Get In Touch

You are welcome to drop me a message :)