Prior to becoming the engineering dean at San Jose State, Wei was chair of the Department of Electrical Engineering from 1998 to 2002. She has been a professor of electrical engineering at San Jose State since 1987. Wei has also served as a visiting associate professor at Stanford University and worked as a network engineer for Ford Aerospace and Communication Corporation in Palo Alto from 1980 to 1982. Her academic training includes a bachelor’s degree in Biophysics from U.C. Berkeley, a master’s degree in Engineering from Harvard University, and a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences from U.C. Berkeley.