Susan Wei

Susan Wei

Lecturer

University of Melbourne

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.

Interests

  • Statistics
  • Deep Learning
  • Singular learning theory

Education

  • PhD in Statistics, 2014

    University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

  • BA in Mathematics, 2009

    University of California, Berkeley