Lei has a PhD in Artificial Intelligence and is an exceptional talent who brings more than ten years of experience within UniSC in research performance, information systems, data analytics and data visualisation. Prior to joining UniSC, Lei held several analytical roles in China with the Department of Higher Education, Ministry of Education, and East China University of Science and Technology. Lei now applies his expert knowledge within the IAU team as the principal programmatic lead for the delivery of the data analytics roadmap to greatly improve the provision of insights and analytics across all portfolios and campuses of the university.