Shenzhen University
Ma taught architecture in China at Shenzhen University, Tongji University, and Nanjing University; in Europe at the Berlage, the ETH, the Ecole Speciale d'Architecture in Paris and in Germany; and in the United States at Harvard University, the University of Pennsylvania, and Columbia University. Ma was the Dean of the University of Southern California School of Architecture from January 2007 through June 2017. In April 2020, Ma began serving as a member of the Board of Governors for the historic The School of Architecture founded by Frank Lloyd Wright in 1932.