Wei Chen, PhD
Chair and Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Wilson-Cook Professor in Engineering Design
Professor of Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences and Materials Science and Engineering (by courtesy)
AI4Energy Leaders
Northwestern researchers have built many of the open data sets, computational methods, and AI-guided research systems that underpin research applying machine learning to accelerate energy innovation.
Faculty members who are active researchers in this area include:
Vinayak Dravid, PhD
Abraham Harris Professor of Materials Science and Engineering
Founding Director, Northwestern University Atomic and Nanoscale Characterization (NUANCE) Center
Founding Director, Soft and Hybrid Nanotechnology Experimental (SHyNE) Resource, an NSF-NNCI Node
Omar Farha, PhD
Professor of Chemistry
Chair, Department of Chemistry
Mark Hersam, PhD
Chair of Materials Science and Engineering
Walter P. Murphy Professor of Materials Science and Engineering and (by courtesy) Electrical and Computer Engineering and Chemistry
Director, Materials Research Science and Engineering (MRSEC)
Mercouri Kanatzidis
Charles E. and Emma H. Morrison Professor, Department of Chemistry, Department of Materials Science and Engineering
Senior Scientist at Argonne National Laboratory
Manling Li , PhD
Assistant Professor of Computer Science
Jeffrey Lopez, PhD
Assistant Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering
Ian McCue, PhD
Assistant Professor of Materials Science and Engineering
Morris E. Fine Junior Professor in Materials and Manufacturing
Chad Mirkin, PhD
Director, International Institute for Nanotechnology (IIN)George B. Rathmann Professor of Chemistry, Chemical and Biological Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Materials Science & Engineering, and Medicine
Edward Sargent, PhD
Director, Paula M. Trienens Institute for Sustainability and Energy
Lynn Hopton Davis and Greg Davis Professor, Department of Chemistry, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Randall Snurr, PhD
John G. Searle Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering
Dashun Wang, PhD
Kellogg Chair of TechnologyProfessor of Management and Organizations
Professor of Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences
Director, Center for Science of Science and Innovation (CSSI)
Co-Director, Ryan Institute on Complexity Director, Northwestern Innovation Institute
