Martin Q. Ma is a Ph.D. student in the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University, advised by Louis-Philippe Morency. He also collaborates with Ruslan Salakhutdinov, Kun Zhang, and Yao-Hung Hubert Tsai. He graduated with a degree in mathematics and computer science from Brandeis University. His research focuses on developing new self-supervised learning methods based on neuroscience insights, understanding self-supervised learning with theoretical frameworks, and designing self-supervised algorithms for multimodal tasks. His works have been published in NeurIPS, CVPR, ICLR, EMNLP, and were acknowledged by a highlight in CVPR and an oral in NeurIPS Science meets Engineering of Deep Learning workshop.