Welcome to Wei Ao’s Homepage

I am a Ph.D. student in CSE at MSU under the supervision of Prof. Vishnu Boddeti in HAL Lab. My research focuses on Private AI. I am working on an end-to-end secure inference system to protect data privacy under fully homomorphic encryption (FHE). Before joining MSU, I obtained my Master’s degree from Fudan University in 2019 where I worked on image processing and target detection. I published papers in USENIX Security Symposium, NeurIPS, GECCO, IEEE TIP.

News!

• [04/2026] Successly defend my Ph.D. dissertation.
• [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.