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Ke Ma is a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Connected & Autonomous Transportation Systems (CATS) Laboratory at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, U.S. (advised by Prof. Xiaopeng (Shaw) Li). Before that, he obtained his Master’s degree (advised by Prof. Hao Wang) at Southeast University in 2021 and his Bachelor’s degree at Central South University in 2018.
His research focuses on the fundamental theory and field experiments of Connected and Automated Vehicles, Control Theory, Energy and Emissions, and Machine Learning. His work has been published in top Transportation, Energy, Robotics, and Multidisciplinary journals and top-tier conferences, including Transportation Research Part C/E, Energy, ICRA, and Scientific Data.
News
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| 03/06/2025 | Accepted by Energy, “Automated vehicle microscopic energy consumption study (AV-Micro): Data collection and model development”. Link to paper. |
| 03/01/2025 | Paper submitted to IROS 2025, “Experimental validation of car-following model stability: use reduce-scaled testbeds”. |
| 01/27/2025 | Accepted by the 2025 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), “Real-world Automated Vehicle Longitudinal Stability Analysis: Controller Design and Field Test”. Link to paper. |
| 01/14/2025 | Awarded by OpenAI Researcher Access Program. 0000008147, “Large language model application in AV communication field tests”. |
| 01/07/2025 | 2025 Best Paper by the AED60 Committee on Statistical and Econometric Methods, “Assessing Markov Property in Driving Behaviors: Insights from Statistical Tests”. |
| 01/05/2025 | 10 papers accepted in TRB2025, including 1 podium presentation and 9 poster presentations. |
| 12/24/2024 | Dissertation Published, “Design, Testing, and Evaluation of Automated Vehicle Control Systems in Transportation”. Link to paper. |
| 10/15/2024 | Paper submitted to Preprint, “An Advanced Microscopic Energy Consumption Model for Automated Vehicle Development, Calibration, Verification”. Link to paper. |
| 09/15/2024 | Paper submitted to Preprint, “Real-world Automated Vehicle Longitudinal Stability Analysis: Controller Design and Field Test”. Link to paper. |
| 08/18/2024 | Paper accepted by Scientific Data - Nature, “A Unified Longitudinal Trajectory Dataset for Automated Vehicles”. Link to paper. |
| 08/12/2024 | Paper submitted to Transportation Research Part E, “Development, Calibration, and Validation of a Novel Nonlinear Car-Following Model: Multivariate Piecewise Linear Approach for Adaptive Cruise Control Vehicles”. |
| 08/07/2024 | Paper submitted to Preprint, “Understanding Autonomous Vehicle Behavior: A Soft-Margin Approach in Piecewise Linear Model”. Link to paper. |
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For any inquiries, please contact me at kma62@wisc.edu.