Prof. J Ma is head of the Department of Safety Engineering, School of Transporatation and Logistics, Southwest Jiaotong University. He received his PhD degree from the State Key Laboratory of Fire Science, University of Science and Technology of China, and jointly from the Department of Civil & Architectural Engineering, City University of Hong Kong, in 2010; B.E. degree in Safety Engineering and B.S. degree in Computer Science from University of Science and Technology of China, in 2005.

From 2011 to 2012, he further performed studies on pedestrian traffic and evacuation dynamics as a Postdoctoral Fellow with City University of Hong Kong. His research interests include pedestrian traffic, crowd dynamics, emergency evacuation, and intelligent traffic simulation. In this research direction, he has been continuously supported by Natural Science Foundation of China in the past few years.

Prof. Ma is a member of the editorial board of open access journals including “Collective Dynamics” (formerly “Dynamics of Pedestrians and Other Self-Driven Particles”) and “Current Chinese Science.” He is also a member of the Advisory Editorial Board of "Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications." He served as reviewer for Natural Science Foundation of China, National Center of Science and Technology Evaluation of the Republic of Kazakhstan, and international journals including, IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, Transportation Research Part C, Travel Behaviour and Society, Physica A, Chinese Physics B, International Journal of Modern Physics C, Transportation Letters: the International Journal of Transportation Research, Journal of Harbin Institute of Technology, Transportmetrica A, Frontiers of Information Technology & Electronic Engineering, Simulation: Transactions of the Society for Modeling and Simulation International, Cities, etc.

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