Wei Ni received the B.E. and Ph.D. degrees in electronic engineering from Fudan University, Shanghai, China, in 2000 and 2005, respectively. He is currently a Principal Research Scientist at CSIRO Data61, Sydney, Australia. He is also a Conjoint Professor at the University of New South Wales, an Adjunct Professor with the University of Technology Sydney, and an Honorary Professor at Macquarie University. Before this, he was a Deputy Project Manager at the Bell Laboratories, Alcatel/Alcatel-Lucent, from 2005 to 2008, and a Senior Researcher at Devices Research and Development, Nokia, from 2008 to 2009. His research interests include machine learning, stochastic optimization, online learning, and their applications to system efficiency and integrity.

He serves as the Chair of IEEE Vehicular Technology Society (VTS) New South Wales (NSW) Chapter, an Editor of IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, and an Editor of IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications. He served first as the Secretary and then the Vice-Chair of IEEE NSW VTS Chapter, from 2015 to 2019, the Track Chair for VTC-Spring 2017, the Track Co-Chair for IEEE VTC-Spring 2016, the Publication Chair for BodyNet 2015, and the Student Travel Grant Chair for WPMC 2014.