Wei's research focuses on how massive location-based social media data can help the understanding of the nature of human activities and the dynamics of social interactions.
Courses Wei has taught include python programming; data mining and modeling; data visualization; machine learning; and data analysis on AWS.
Wei earned a doctorate in geography at the University of Georgia, master's degrees in GIS and urban planning at Wuhan University and University of Twente; and a bachelor's degree in urban planning at Wuhan University.