Zhi Wei

Academic Appointments

2024 - present, Distinguished Professor, Department of Computer Science, New Jersey Institute of Technology.
2024 - present, Distinguished Professor of Statistics, Department of Mathematics (Joint Appointment), New Jersey Institute of Technology.
2020 - present, Adjunct Professor, Perelman School of Medicine, the Univ. of Pennsylvania.
2019 - present, Director of Bioinformatics Program, New Jersey Institute of Technology.
2019 - 2024, Professor, Department of Computer Science, New Jersey Institute of Technology.
2019 - 2024, Professor of Statistics, Department of Mathematics (Joint Appointment), New Jersey Institute of Technology.
2018 - 2022, Associate Chair, Department of Computer Science, New Jersey Institute of Technology.
2013 - 2019, Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science, New Jersey Institute of Technology.
2015 - 2019, Associate Professor of Statistics, Department of Mathematics (Joint Appointment), New Jersey Institute of Technology.
2008 - 2013, Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, New Jersey Institute of Technology.

Editorial Board

Associate Editor, BMC Bioinformatics
Associate Editor, BMC Genomics
Associate Editor, IEEE Internet of Things Journal
Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics: Systems
Associate Editor, PLoS ONE
Associate Editor, Statistical Analysis and Data Mining
Founding Editor-in-Chief, Computational and Structural Biotechnology Reports, 2024.
Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems, 2017-2021
Editorial Review Board Member, Frontiers in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, 2011-2018
Editorial Review Board Member, Frontiers in Applied Genetic Epidemiology, 2011-2018  

Conference Organization

2025, the IEEE/ACM conference on Connected Health: Applications, Systems and Engineering Technologies (CHASE), Program Chair
2023, the 3rd International Conference on Cyber-physical Social Intelligence (ICCSI), Program Committee Co-Chair
2023, Machine learning and AI in Communications Symposium, 32th Wireless and Optical Communications Conference, Symposium Co-Chair
2020, Big Data and Emerging Technology Symposium, 32th Wireless and Optical Communications Conference, Symposium Chair

PC Member

ICDM 2017-2022, KDD 2018-2022, BigData 2018, 2022; CIKM2019, AAAI 2019-2022

Education

Ph.D. in Bioinformatics, University of Pennsylvania, PA., 2008.
B.S. in Computer Science, Wuhan University, China