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5.05/4/2026

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About Donglai

Donglai Wei is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Boston College, where he directs the Machine Learning for Science Lab. His research explores the interplay between biological sciences and computer vision, with a focus on building computational models for biomedical image analysis, including connectomics, and applying brain mechanisms to enhance machine video understanding. Wei received a B.S. in Mathematics from Brown University after transferring from Tsinghua University and earned his Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, advised by William T. Freeman. Before joining Boston College in 2021, he served as a postdoctoral fellow in Harvard University's Visual Computing Group within the John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.