Xu Wei is Professor and Vice Dean of the Institute for Interdisciplinary Information Sciences as well as an Adjunct Professor in the College of AI at Tsinghua University. His work spans distributed systems, AI infrastructure, AI safety and AI healthcare. He completed his M.S. and Ph.D. at UC Berkeley under Turing Award winner David Patterson after his undergrad study at University of Pennsylvania and Tsinghua. He has won research and teaching awards from Google, IBM, the China Institute of Electronics, and multiple Tsinghua honors.  He published 100+ papers in top venues of different research areas such as OSDI, SIGCOMM, and KDD—with Outstanding Paper prizes at DSN and ACL. Before Tsinghua, he worked on large-scale infrastructure reliability at Google. Beyond academia, he helped incubate several tech startups.