Wes Chang is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics, and an affiliated faculty member of the Departments of Materials Science and Engineering, and Chemical and Biological Engineering, at Drexel University. Prof. Chang completed his B.S. (2014) and M.S. (2016) in Chemical Engineering at Stanford, and his Ph.D. (2021) in Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science at Princeton. After completing his doctoral thesis, he continued working on lithium metal batteries as a Postdoc at Columbia University. He spent the following year (2022 – 2023) at Caltech investigating lithium-mediated electrochemical ammonia synthesis. He is the recipient of The Electrochemical Society F.M. Becket Fellowship and the Arnold O. Beckman Postdoctoral Fellowship. Outside of academia, he has previously worked in the battery industry and management consulting for energy and utilities, and regularly serves as a technical advisor to energy-focused startup companies and investment firms.
Current team (2025), alphabetical by last name:
Postdoctoral Fellow
PhD, Chemistry, Northwestern
BS, Chemistry, Carnegie Mellon
MS Student (Data Science)
PhD Candidate (Materials Science and Engineering)
BS, Engineering Science – Materials, with Minor in Mathematics, Emory
Postdoctoral Fellow
PhD, Chemistry, Bar-Ilan University
BS/MS, Chemistry with Minor in Materials Science, Indian Institute of Science (IISc)
Undergraduate (Chemical Engineering)
Undergraduate (Computer Science)
PhD Candidate (Mechanical Engineering)
BS, Engineering with Minor in Chemistry, Swarthmore
PhD Candidate (Mechanical Engineering)
BS, Materials Science and Engineering, Northwestern
Research Scientist
PhD, Chemical Engineering, Drexel University
BS/MS, Chemical Engineering, Northeastern
Not pictured: Dylan Butler (Undergraduate, Mechanical Engineering), Qadeer Chadhar (Undergraduate, Mechanical Engineering), Amal Ashok (MS, Robotics and Autonomy), Yixiang Zhang (MS, Mechanical Engineering)
Alumni
Master’s Students
Awin Taib – MS Thesis Student (Mechanical Engineering, Drexel), 10/2023 – 09/2024. Temperature and Rate Capability Effects on Sodium Ion Batteries, https://doi.org/10.17918/00010748. Next role: Mechanical Engineer at Colliers Design and Engineering
Undergraduate Students
Jaronn Sigey-Ronoh – Undergraduate (Mechanical Engineering, Drexel), Summer 2024 – Winter 2025 [Mechanical design and rapid prototyping].
Monalisa Hait – Undergraduate (Mechanical Engineering, Drexel), Fall – Winter 2025 [Silicon anode processing].
Bradley Bell – Undergraduate (Chemistry, Drexel), Fall – Winter 2025 [Solid electrolyte processing].
JiYoon Kang – Undergraduate (Bryn Mawr College), Summer 2024 [Ultrasound data science]. Next role: MS at UPenn
Isabella Wu – Undergraduate (Imperial College London), Summer 2024 [Solid electrolyte processing]. Next role: Undergraduate at Imperial College
Gabe Jacobsen – Undergraduate (Mechanical Engineering, Drexel), Fall – Winter 2024 [Mechanical design and rapid prototyping]. Next role: Undergraduate Co-op at Trojan Battery
Noah Woods – Undergraduate (Mechanical Engineering, Drexel), Fall – Winter 2024 [Mechanical design and rapid prototyping]. Next role: Undergraduate at Drexel