Hui Lei

Hui Lei is a Chinese-American computer scientist, software engineer, and technology executive. He is known for his work in cloud computing, big data, and mobile computing. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and a Director of engineering at Meta Platforms Inc.

Education Lei received a B.S. degree from Sun Yat-sen University, an M.S. degree from New York University, and a Ph.D. degree from Columbia University, all in computer science.

Career Prior to joining Meta, Lei was a vice president at Futurewei Technologies. He was with IBM until 2018, where most recently he was Director and CTO of Watson Health Cloud, an IBM Distinguished Engineer, and an IBM Master Inventor. Mercury, and Mobile Crowdsensing. He has over 90 patents to his credit. He served on the board of governors of the IEEE Computer Society from 2021 to 2022. The same year, he was admitted to the IEEE Computer Society Golden Core.

In 2016, Lei was named a Fellow of the IEEE "for contributions to scalable and dependable data access in distributed computing systems." A year later, he received an IEEE Computer Society Technical Achievement Award "for pioneering contributions to scalable access to real-world data."