
Wei Zhao
An internationally renowned scholar, Professor Wei Zhao is currently serving the Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology as its Chairman of the University Academic Council。 Previously, he served the American University of Sharjah as its Chief Research Officer. From 2008 to 2018, he served as the eighth Rector (i.e., President) of the University of Macau. Professor Zhao also served as the Dean of the School of Science at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Director for the Division of Computer and Network Systems in the U.S. National Science Foundation, and Senior Associate Vice President for Research at Texas A&M University. Professor Zhao completed his undergraduate studies in Physics at Shaanxi Normal University, China, in 1977, and received his MSc and PhD degrees in Computer and Information Sciences at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst in 1983 and 1986, respectively.









