Chen Wei is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Rice University. Before joining Rice in Fall 2025, she was a Postdoctoral Researcher at Meta AI (FAIR). She earned her Ph.D. in Computer Science from Johns Hopkins University in 2024, advised by Bloomberg Distinguished Professor Alan L. Yuille, and received her B.Sc. with honors from Peking University in 2019.

Her research lies broadly in Artificial Intelligence, with a focus on Computer Vision and Multimodal Learning. She is particularly interested in developing scalable, general-purpose systems that transform raw sensory inputs—especially visual signals—into structured and actionable knowledge. Her work spans Generative AI, unsupervised representation learning, and visual reasoning, with the goal of building AI agents capable of perceiving, understanding, and interacting with the world.