Dr. Wei received her Ph.D. in Computer Science from New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, and she got her master and bachelor degrees in Petroleum Engineering from China University of Petroleum , China. Her research interests include advanced application development for digital oifield inititives using data mining and artificial intelligence technologies, advanced semantic web application development for data management, and reservoir engineering studies for unconventional oil and gas development. Her teaching interests include Applied Petroleum Reservoir Engineering, Natural Gas Engineering, and Applied Reservoir Simulation.