February 2003, Prof. Ma was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering (NAE). 

Prof. Ma has served on many committees at Yale University, including the  Executive Committee of the Graduate School, Executive Committee of the Yale College, Teaching and Learning Committee (Chair 1996), Senior Faculty Appointments Committee, Junior Faculty Appointments Committee, Minority Advisory Council, Physical Sciences and Engineering Advisory Committee, Engineering Faculty Development Committee, Bouchet Award Committee, Assistant Dean’s Search Committee of Yale College (Chair), and Steering Committee of NEASC Accreditation. 

After graduation from Yale University with a Ph.D. degree in 1974, Prof. Ma did research at IBM on advanced silicon device technology and ionizing radiation effects in MOS devices until joining the Yale faculty in 1977.

Prof. Ma's research and teaching at Yale have focused on microelectronics, semiconductors, MOS interface physics, ionizing radiation and hot electron effects, advanced gate dielectrics, flash memory device physics, and ferroelectric thin films for memory applications. He is a patent holder, co-editor of a book, has given numerous invited talks at international conferences, and contributed to several book chapters as well as over 180 research papers. 

Prof. Ma has been actively involved in organizing, chairing, or serving as a committee member of numerous technical conferences, including the IEEE/SISC, IEEE/DRC, IEEE/NSREC, VLSI-TSA, SSDM, EDMS, ICSICT, ECS, and MRS meetings. He was the Symposium Chair of the 1999 International VLSI-TSA Symposium held in Taipei June 1999 and, since 2001, is a member of this Symposium's Steering Committee.

The awards and honors that Prof. Ma has received for professional achievements include a Harding Bliss Prize from Yale University, GE Whitney Lectureship from General Electric, Yankee Ingenuity Award from the State of Connecticut, BF Goodrich Collegiate Inventor’s Winner’s Advisor Award (twice), and the Paul Rappaport Award from the IEEE Electron Device Society. 

Prof. Ma is a Fellow of IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers), a Member of the Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering (CASE), a life member of APS (American Physical Society), and a member of ECS (Electrochemical Society), MRS (Materials Research Society), Sigma Xi, and Yale Science and Engineering Association (YSEA).

Prof. Ma is an Honorary Professor of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, an Honorary Guest Professor of Tsinghua University, Tianjin University, and of Shandong University.

Tso-Ping Ma has served as a consultant for industry worldwide. He has also been the Principal Investigator of joint R & D projects with numerous high-tech companies worldwide, including IBM, Intel, Motorola, TI, Sematech, Micron Technologies, Lucent Technology, GE, AMD, Hughes, LSI Logic, Rockwell Semiconductors, JPC, ATMI, PSS, Philips, Siemens, Hitachi, NEC, Toshiba, and Mitsubishi Electric.