Wei Chen is an Associate Professor of Operations and Information Management (OPIM) at the School of Business, University of Connecticut. He is the author of the textbook Generative AI for Business: Frameworks, Techniques, and Governance, which provides systematic guidance on how organizations can design, implement, and govern generative AI to create business value. He also serves as the Academic Director of the UConn Digital Frontiers Initiative, which promotes collaborations between industry and academia, with a particular emphasis on organizational AI transformation and governance.

Wei's research spans both scholarly inquiry and practice-oriented frameworks, focusing on how organizations design and govern generative AI capabilities to transform decision-making, knowledge work, and operations. His earlier work also explored platforms, crowds, and financial technologies (FinTech). His research has been published in leading academic journals, such as Management Science, Information Systems Research, MIS Quarterly, and Production and Operations Management. He has received multiple best paper awards and nominations at leading conferences. He is also a recipient of the Sandra A. Slaughter Early Career Award and the Gordon B. Davis Young Scholar Award from the INFORMS Information Systems Society.

Prior to joining UConn in 2023, Wei was a tenured faculty member at the MIS department, Eller College of Management, University of Arizona. He received his PhD in Innovation, Technology and Operations from the Rady School of Management, University of California, San Diego.