PeopleofSuperintelligence

Researcher

Wei Li

Also known as Li Wei, W. Li, WEI He li

Wei Li is a Jiangnan University AI researcher whose work spans generative models, medical imaging and visual recognition. He studied Information and Computing Science, earned a master's in Agricultural Engineering and completed a PhD in Software Engineering before coauthoring methods for lung CT infection detection, few-shot plant disease detection and imbalanced-data augmentation. By 2024, he held an associate professorship at Jiangnan University and served as a visiting scholar at UMB and a research assistant at PolyU. As of October 2026, he is a track chair for ICGIP in computer graphics and virtual reality.

Works
955

Publication numbers from OpenAlex, as of 22 October 2026. Citations and h-index are hidden because this OpenAlex record may be incomplete or mix in other authors.

Timeline

  1. 2008–2012

    Computing and agricultural engineering

    He studies Information and Computing Science as an undergraduate in 2008 and earns a master's degree in Agricultural Engineering from South China Agricultural University in 2012.

  2. 2019

    A Wuhan software engineering PhD

    He completes a PhD in Software Engineering at Wuhan University in 2019.

  3. 2021

    NIA-Network for lung CT

    In 2021, he coauthors NIA-Network for COVID-19 lung CT infection detection, a model that combines Network-in-Network, instance normalization and adversarial learning.

  4. 2021

    Few-shot plant disease detection

    In 2021, he coauthors LFM-CNAPS, a meta-learning system that detects plant diseases from unseen categories with only a few annotated examples.

  5. March 2023

    EID-GAN for imbalanced data

    In March 2023, he coauthors EID-GAN, a generative adversarial model for extremely imbalanced data; tests include industrial Piston and Fabric datasets and the DAGM dataset.

  6. By 2024

    Visiting scholar and research assistant

    By 2024, he has served as a visiting scholar at UMB and a research assistant at PolyU.

  7. By 2024

    Associate professor at Jiangnan

    By 2024, he is an associate professor in Jiangnan University's School of Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science.

  8. As of October 2026

    Computer graphics track chair

    As of October 2026, he is a track chair for ICGIP in Computer Graphics and Virtual Reality, with Jiangnan University as his affiliation.

Career

  1. University of Maryland, BaltimoreVisiting Scholar
  2. Hong Kong Polytechnic UniversityResearch Assistant
  3. Jiangnan UniversityAssociate Professor

Education

  1. 2019Wuhan UniversityPhD in Software Engineering
  2. 2012South China Agricultural UniversityMaster's in Agricultural Engineering

From the biography.

  1. 16% of AI career moves in the 2020s went from a university to a companyIncludes Wei Li. We estimate that 16% of AI career moves in the 2020s went from a university to a company; 29% of moves starting at a university went to a company, and 76% ended the university role.
  2. More people shaping AI studied at Massachusetts Institute of Technology than at any other institutionIncludes Beihang University. We estimate where the people shaping AI studied and where their careers led. Massachusetts Institute of Technology leads with 467 former students, including 291 recorded doctorates.
  3. The company share of AI researchers’ top papers was 31% in 2020–2024 and 8% in 1970–1974Includes Beihang University. We estimate where the people shaping AI worked when their most-cited papers appeared: the company share was 31% in 2020–2024 and 8% in 1970–1974, and Google led all organizations in 2020–2024.
  4. The median h-index is 48 at universities and 14 at frontier AI labsIncludes Beihang University. The median h-index is 48 at universities and 14 at frontier AI labs. We compare publishing careers, recent citations, dual appointments and job moves across 2,420 university researchers and 308 frontier-lab researchers.

Sources and credits

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  1. Wei Li - Tashkent University of Information Technologies named after Muhammad al-Khwarizmi tuit.uz. Checked 20 October 2026.
  2. NIA-Network: Towards improving lung CT infection detection for COVID-19 diagnosis collaborate.umb.edu. Checked 20 October 2026.
  3. Meta-Learning for Few-Shot Plant Disease Detection pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov. Checked 20 October 2026.
  4. EID-GAN: Generative Adversarial Nets for Extremely Imbalanced Data Augmentation research.polyu.edu.hk. Checked 20 October 2026.
  5. ICGIP 2026｜第18届图形与图像处理国际会议 icgip.org. Checked 20 October 2026.