Susan Wei is a lecturer (assistant professor) in the School of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Melbourne. She previously held a Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA) and was a visiting faculty researcher at Google DeepMind in Sydney. Her research focuses on statistical machine learning, particularly in Bayesian approaches to deep learning, alongside variational inference and singular learning theory. She is part of the Melbourne Deep Learning Group and a founding organiser of GDG AI for Science - Australia.
PhD in Statistics, 2014
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
BA in Mathematics, 2009
University of California, Berkeley