Lixia Ma is currently the Deputy Director and Director of the General Office of CRIPAC. She received her Master's degree from Renmin University of China (RUC) in 2005. She has joined the National Laboratory of Pattern Recognition (NLPR), Institute of Automation of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, where she is currently a senior engineer. She is in charge of document management, human resources, publicity, academic activity arrangement, regulations, editing, safety and so on.