Weili Nie is a PhD candidate in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Rice University, advised by Dr. Ankit Patel. His PhD research is focused on algorithms and theories in deep learning, with a motivation to push forward a better understanding of current deep learning methods. Recently, his research interests include deep generative models, AI interpretability, disentanglement learning, and visual reasoning. In 2020, he was an intern in the AIALGO group at NVIDIA Research.