Jiaqi Ma
Lead
Professor and Director of UCLA Mobility Lab. Provides scientific leadership for DriveX, including long-term research direction in physical AI, autonomy, and intelligent transportation.
Mobility Lab & DriveX
Core leadership team
DriveX is supported by a broad research community across UCLA Mobility Lab and partner institutions. The profiles below highlight the leaders most directly responsible for initiative planning and public programs.
Walter Zimmer
Co-lead
Postdoctoral Researcher. Leads cross-venue workshop and tutorial planning, and coordinates Grand Challenge activities with track organizers and partner institutions.
Rui Song
Co-lead
Postdoctoral Researcher. Leads initiative integration across website, messaging, and program framing to ensure consistency across workshops, Grand Challenge tracks, seminars, and partner communications.
Zhiyu Huang
Co-lead
Postdoctoral Researcher. Supports cross-program coordination and contributes research in reasoning-centric autonomy and world-model methods aligned with the DriveX research program.
Ross Greer
Co-lead
Professor and Director of Mi3 Lab at UC Merced. Co-lead supporting DriveX initiative planning and research coordination across workshops, Grand Challenge tracks, and partner programs.
Bolei Zhou
Co-PI
Associate Professor of Computer Science at UCLA. Co-PI on the NSF-supported DriveX research program, contributing expertise in scene understanding, embodied AI, and generative driving simulation.
Programs
Program responsibilities
DriveX operates as a public research platform with recurring workshops and tutorials, benchmark-driven challenge tracks, open research assets, and community seminars.
- Workshops & tutorials — recurring, cross-venue programs aligned with common annual themes.
- Grand Challenge — benchmark tracks and evaluation programs connecting academia and industry.
- Research assets — datasets, tools, and technical artifacts released for open reuse.
- Seminars — invited talks and technical exchanges with researchers, students, and partners.
Edition-specific organizer lists are published on each event page as schedules are finalized.
Get in touch
Collaborate with the team
For speaking invitations, sponsorship discussions, co-organization, or research collaboration, please use the Contact page. Inquiries are routed to the relevant program lead.