Prof. WEI Ye (韋業)

Prof. Ye WEI has joined City University of Hong Kong as an Assistant Professor under Presidential Assistant Professors Scheme in the Department of Data Science in January 2025. He earned his Bachelor's degree from the University of Twente in the Netherlands and his PhD from the Max Planck Institute for Sustainable Materials and Intelligent Systems in Germany from 2018 to 2021. Prof. WEI was a postdoctoral scholar at the Institute of Interdisciplinary Information Science at Tsinghua University from 2021 to 2023. He then continued his postdoctoral research at the School of Bioengineering at EPFL from 2023 to 2024, where he focused on developing data-driven tools for biological applications.

Prof. WEI's research centers on designing data-driven methodologies to derive optimal solutions from limited datasets. His work addresses high-dimensional, nonlinear challenges in complex real-world systems, with a particular emphasis on applications such as materials discovery and therapeutic antibody design. His research has been featured in prestigious journals, including Science and Nature Communications, and has received wide media coverage in outlets such as MIT Technology Review and Chemistry World.

Applied and Computational Mathematics, Rare Event, Stochastic Modelling and Simulation, Energy Landscape, Machine Learning