Weili Nie

Weili Nie is a senior research scientist on the Fundamental Generative AI Research (GenAIR) Team at NVIDIA Research. Before joining NVIDIA, Weili got his doctorate from the ECE department at Rice University. His current research mainly focuses on developing more efficient, scalable, and controllable generative models and their applications to real-world problems.
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Posts by Weili Nie

Agentic AI / Generative AI Jan 27, 2026

Accelerating Diffusion Models with an Open, Plug-and-Play Offering

Recent advances in large-scale diffusion models have revolutionized generative AI across multiple domains, from image synthesis to audio generation, 3D asset... 8 MIN READ
Agentic AI / Generative AI Jan 13, 2025

Evaluating GenMol as a Generalist Foundation Model for Molecular Generation

Traditional computational drug discovery relies almost exclusively on highly task-specific computational models for hit identification and lead optimization.... 8 MIN READ
Data Science Nov 17, 2020

Building a Benchmark for Human-Level Concept Learning and Reasoning

Humans have an inherent ability to learn novel concepts from only a few samples and generalize these concepts to different situations. Even though today’s... 10 MIN READ