Beijing Forestry University
Lecturer, Computer Science Department
Beijing Forestry University is where Wang Wei worked as Lecturer, Computer Science Department (2015 – present).
Wang Wei has been a Lecturer in the Computer Science department of a 985 university in Beijing since 2015, following the completion of his Ph.D. at Tsinghua University. The specific institution is anonymised in this demo to keep the example self-contained.
Teaching load
Wang's teaching load consists of three undergraduate courses per semester:
- Introduction to Programming — first-year required, taught in Python, two sections of 80 students each.
- Data Structures — second-year required, taught in C++, one section of 50 students.
- Computers in Education — third- or fourth-year elective seminar, 20–25 students, capped enrolment.
The Computers in Education seminar is the course Wang has redesigned most heavily over the eight years; it is also the course whose curriculum eventually became the seed material for Codeleaf's middle-school product line.
Research and publications
During his time at the university, Wang has published twelve peer-reviewed papers, primarily in education-technology venues and primarily as senior author with student first authors. The papers span knowledge-state modeling (a continuation of his doctoral work), classroom-engagement analytics, and the empirical evaluation of his own teaching innovations.
Career trajectory decision
In 2024, Wang formally elected not to pursue the associate-professor evaluation track and stated that intent in writing during his annual review. The decision was a function of three factors he has discussed publicly: the lifestyle and incentive structure of the tenure-track path no longer matched what he wanted to spend his thirties and forties optimising for; the Codeleaf period had given him a concrete sense of how much faster a non-academic product loop could turn; and the regulatory environment for his specific research area had become unpredictable in a way that academic incentives could not absorb. He is currently exploring full transition into industry product-management roles.