Cui Wei leads Squirrel Ai, a pioneering AI-powered adaptive learning system. The scientist has also published 28 international academic papers on AI, agent-based modelling, complex adaptive systems, quantitative finance and AI education—one of which won the IEEE-CIFEr Best Paper Award—and has given more than 40 lectures at international conferences. He was one of MIT Technology Review’s 35 Innovators Under 35 China in 2018.