Kevin Wei is an adjunct technical analyst at RAND in the Technology and Security Policy Center, and was previously a fellow from 2023 to 25. Their research agenda primarily focuses on technical AI governance and AI law, including the science of AI evaluations, legal safety/alignment, and private AI law. Wei's research has appeared at top AI and AI ethics venues, including the International Conference of Machine Learning, AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Transactions on Machine Learning Research, ACM FAccT, AAAI/ACM AIES, and PLOS One.

Previously, Wei was a Schwarzman Scholar at Tsinghua University and worked in the tech industry.

Education

J.D., Harvard University; M.S. in computer science, Georgia Institute of Technology; M.A. in global affairs, Tsinghua University; B.A. in mathematics-statistics, Columbia University in the City of New York

Languages

English; Mandarin Chinese

Selected Work

  • Kevin Wei, Patricia Paskov, Sunishchal Dev, Michael J Byun, Anka Reuel, Xavier Roberts-Gaal, Rachel Calcott, Evie Coxon, Chinmay Deshpande, "Position: Human Baselines in Model Evaluations Need Rigor and Transparency (With Recommendations & Reporting Checklist)," Forty-second International Conference on Machine Learning, 2025
  • Kevin Wei, Lennart Heim, "Designing Incident Reporting Systems for Harms from General-Purpose AI," Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 40(44), 2026
  • Alan Chan, Kevin Wei, Sihao Huang, Nitarshan Rajkumar, Elija Perrier, Seth Lazar, Gillian K Hadfield, Markus Anderljung, "Infrastructure for AI Agents," Transactions on Machine Learning Research, 2025
  • Kevin Wei, Stephen Guth, Gabriel Wu, Patricia Paskov, "Methodological Challenges in Agentic Evaluations of AI Systems," ICML Workshop on Technical AI Governance (TAIG), 2025
  • Kevin Wei, Carson Ezell, Nick Gabrieli, Chinmay Deshpande, "How Do AI Companies “Fine-Tune” Policy? Examining Regulatory Capture in AI Governance," Proceedings of the AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society, 2024
  • Sophia Hatz, Noemi Dreksler, Kevin Wei, Baobao Zhang, "Local US officials' views on the impacts and governance of AI: Evidence from 2022 and 2023 survey waves," PLOS One, 2025 (forthcoming)

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