Ziqiao "Martin" Ma
Ph.D. Candidate
Computer Science and Engineering
Weinberg Institute for Cognitive Science
University of Michigan
Ziqiao “Martin” Ma is a Ph.D. candidate in Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Michigan. His research focuses on the intersection of Language, Interaction, and Embodiment. His work has been supported in part by the Weinberg Cognitive Science Fellowship. Martin received an Outstanding Paper Award at ACL 2023 and an Outstanding GSI Award for teaching. He co-organized Bi-Align @ ICLR/CHI 2025, SpLU-RoboNLP @ ACL 2024, and co-instructed tutorial on Learning Language through Grounding @ NAACL 2025.
Interests
- Multimodal Learning
- Language Grounding
- Psycholinguistics
Education
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Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering, 2026 (expected)
University of Michigan
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B.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, 2021
University of Michigan