Michael Wei
Senior Research Scientist, AI Labs at VMware
Palo Alto, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Wei is a Senior Research Scientist specializing in systems-level AI infrastructure, hardware/software codesign, and distributed systems, with 12 years of experience driving research to production at VMware and in industry consulting. He has led tech transfer of research systems like CorfuDB into VMware's NSX control plane and now heads sustainable AI systems work leveraging low-power and edge accelerators such as AGX Orin. His work spans computer architecture, OS interfaces, RDMA, and precision time as a distributed primitive, blending practical hardware prototypes with software and protocol design. Michael is notable for turning opaque research ideas into well-documented, open-source projects used in commercial products, and for advising on blockchain scaling within enterprise stacks. Trained to the PhD level with interdisciplinary undergraduate studies, he pairs deep experimental rigor with a knack for cost-effective system engineering.
12 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
C. Phil, Computer Science, C. Phil, Computer Science at University of California, San DiegoMaster of Science (M.S.), Computer Science, Master of Science (M.S.), Computer Science at University of California San DiegoBachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science, Biological Sciences, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Philosophy, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science, Biological Sciences, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Philosophy at University of California, Irvine
English, Chinese, French
Github Skills (200)
automation10
espressif10
camera10
object-detection10
computer-vision10
home-automation10
finance10
bigint10
embeddable10
nodejs10
hardhat10
buffer10
hardware10
google-coral10
privacy10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
vmware-archive/concord
Sep 2019 - Apr 2021
🧱⛓️ A scalable decentralized blockchain
Contributions:37 commits, 51 PRs, 45 pushes in 1 year 8 months
ethereumscalableblockchaindecentralized
RainBlock/evmc-js
Mar 2019 - Mar 2019
☔️🔗 EVMC bindings for node.js
Contributions:9 releases, 35 commits, 45 pushes in 19 days
ethereumnode-jsjavascriptblockchainevm
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