Prof. Wei is an Associate Professor in the Department of Statistics at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. She obtained her bachelor's degree in Mathematics from Tsinghua University in 29 and her MSc Eng degree in Computer Science and PhD degree in Biostatistics from Johns Hopkins University in 214. Her research focuses on developing statistical methods for analysing noisy, complex and heterogeneous big genomic data. Her paper on meta-clustering of genomic data received the W. J. Youden Award in Interlaboratory Testing from the American Statistical Association in 219.