Jerry . Ma
United States Patent & Trademark Office
Jerry Ma, Esq., serves as the Director of Emerging Technology at the USPTO, overseeing a comprehensive portfolio of artificial intelligence and emerging technology matters in the agency. In this role, Mr. Ma provides strategic and technical leadership toward ensuring that the USPTO deploys innovative technologies in service of innovators, and that the USPTO adopts forward-thinking policies to support new domains of invention and creativity. Prior to joining the USPTO, Mr. Ma developed engineering and infrastructure agendas for global teams, navigating concerns from thousand-node infrastructure requirements to AI intellectual property matters. He oversaw major technology initiatives resulting in the world's first public-domain superhuman Go bot and the first deep neural network to be trained on the known protein universe. Mr. Ma's scientific research has been published at venues such as ICML, ICLR, AAAI, PNAS, and S&P, and he has taught computer science & mathematics in undergraduate, graduate, and professional settings across multiple institutions. Mr. Ma earned an A.B. in Economics and the Classics from Harvard University and is admitted to practice before the USPTO.
(04/22)
