Wei Chen
Assistant Professor
Department of Mechanical, Materials & Aerospace Engineering
Illinois Institute of Technology

​I obtained my PhD in Materials Science and Engineering from Northwestern University with Prof. Chris Wolverton in 2012.  I then worked at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory on the Materials Project with Prof. Kristin Persson.

Graduate students

  • George Kim
  • Jialiang Wei
  • Chenyang Li
  • Jie Zhang

Undergraduate student

  • Yu Zhou 

Alumni

  • Kathleen Mullin (undergraduate research, 2017)
  • Arash Tourki Sameaei (graduate research, 2017)
  • Lin Chen (PhD, Thesis: "Advanced materials enabled by atomic layer deposition for high energy density rechargeable battery", 2017)
  • Tu Phan  (Armour PURE undergraduate research, 2017)​
  • Daniel Roediger (undergraduate summer research, 2016)
  • Mateus Quagliatto Goes (undergraduate summer research, 2016)