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Dr. Lei Ma is currently an associate professor with The University of Tokyo, as well as University of Alberta (with a shared appointment in part time from April 2023), leading Momentum Lab (website to be launched). Previously, he held the assistant professor position with Kyushu University from Jan. 2019, and was promoted to associate professor on April 2020. From April 2021, he joined University of Alberta and was honored to be selected as a Canada CIFAR AI Chair, and a Fellow with Alberta Machine Intelligent Institute (Amii), under the Pan-Canadian AI Strategy. From April 2023, he joined The computer science department of The University of Tokyo as an associate professor. His research spans a wide range of research topics, and comes with a special focus centering on the interdisciplinary research fields of Software Engineering and Artificial Intelligence, in the design and development of quality assurance and engineering support for building trustworthy AI systems. In his early career as a student, he received a B.E. degree from Shanghai Jiaotong University (SJTU) in 2009, M.E. and Ph.D. degrees from The University of Tokyo, in 2011 and 2014, respectively. During his Ph.D. program, he studied for half a year in the Mathematics and Computer Science department of Technische Universität München(TUM).
