Principle Investigator

Wen Chen, Ph.D (Google Scholar) 

Associate Professor
Education:

2018: Postdoc. Materials Engineering Division, Lawrence Livermore National Lab
2016: Ph.D. Mechanical Engineering & Materials Science, Yale University
2011: M.Phil. Industrial and Systems Engineering, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
2008: B.Eng. Materials Science and Engineering, Nanjing University of Science and Technology

Email: wenchen@umass.edu

                                       

 Graduate Students

 

 

Jian Liu

M.S. 2020, Materials Science, Institute of Metal Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences
B.S. 2016, Materials Physics, Northeastern University

 

 

 

Wuxian Yang

M.S. 2023, Mechanical Engineering, University of Manchester

B.S. 2022, Solid Mechanics, Xi’an Jiaotong University

 

 

 

 

 

 

Christopher Pedraza 

B.S. 2024, Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University

 

 

 

 

 

As we transition from UMass to USC, we are hiring 1 postdoctoral fellow and 2~3 Ph.D students for Fall 2025 entry. 

Group Alumni

Dr. Jie Ren, Research Scientist, CRRC Corporation Limited

Dr. Shahryar Mooraj, Postdoctoral Staff, Lawrence Livermore National Lab

Dr. Shengbiao Zhang, Postdoctoral Staff, MIT 

Dr. Shuai Guan, Professor, Central Iron & Steel Research Institute

Dr. Peijun Hou (now Staff Scientist at Oak Ridge National Laboratory)

Dr. Yanfang Liu, Associate Professor, Hohai University

Asmit Jain, Master Student, University of Massachusetts Amherst (now at Intel)

Abhishek Patil, Master Student, University of Massachusetts Amherst (now at Apple)

Rui Li, Master Student, University of Massachusetts Amherst (now at Bank of Nanjing)

Fanyue Kong, Undergraduate Research Intern, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (now at University of Virginia)

Mag Jiang, Smith College 

Xinyun Guo, Smith College

Mathieu Johnson, Stanford University

Henry Worden, UMass Amherst

Siyuan Peng, Exchange student (now a faculty at Xiamen University)

Shuai Feng, Exchange student