Welcome to Wei Ao’s Homepage

I am an Applied Scientist at Amazon. I obtained Ph.D. in Computer Science at MSU in 2026. My research focuses on multimodal and agentic AI. I published papers at CVPR, ECCV, NeurIPS and USENIX Security.

News!

• [06/2026] One paper is accepted by ECCV 2026.
• [05/2026] Join Amazon Personalization as an Applied Scientist.
• [04/2026] Defend my Ph.D.
• [03/2026] Reviewer at ECCV 2026 and BMVC 2026.
• [09/2025] I’m starting a new position as an Applied Scientist Intern at Amazon AWS AI in Seattle.
• [02/2025] I have TWO papers and ONE tutorial accepted by CVPR 2025!
• [02/2025] I am invited to be a reviewer of ICCV 2025.
• [12/2024] I am invited to be a PC member of AutoML 2025.
• [12/2024] I serve as a reviewer at CVPR 2025.
• [08/2024] I present our solution to AI safety AutoFHE at USENIX Security Symposium 2024 in Philadelphia, PA.
• [06/2024] I am invited to be a PC member for the workshop track of AutoML 2024.
• [03/2024] I present our USENIX Security’ 24 paper AutoFHE at FHE.org Conference 2024. [Slides] [Video]
• [03/2024] I serve as a reviewer at AutoML 2024.
• [09/2023] AutoFHE is accepted by USENIX Security Symposium 2024.