Wei Zhao (Chinese: 赵伟) is a Chinese-American computer scientist who was rector (president) of the University of Macau from 2008 to 2017.
[1] Zhao received his undergraduate degree in physics from Shaanxi Normal University in Xi'an, China in 1982.
He then moved to the United States to study at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, where he earned his master's degree in computer science in 1983, and his PhD in 1986.
[1] From 1990 to 2007 Zhao was a faculty member of Texas A&M University, where he was chair of the Computer Science Department from 1997 to 2001, and senior associate vice president for research from 2001 to 2007.
He held the position for nine years before resigning at the end of 2017[3] to join the American University of Sharjah as chief research officer in 2018.