Principal Investigator

WongHsiWu-2021-1

Hsi-Wu Wong
Associate Professor, Associate Chair for Graduate Studies, Department of Chemical Engineering

Associate Director, Center for Energy Innovation

Education:
B.S., Chemical Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan

Ph.D., Chemical Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL

Postdoctoral Researcher, Chemical Engineering, MIT, Cambridge, MA

BIOSKETCH

Dr. Wong joined the Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of Massachusetts Lowell in 2014. His research focuses on both experimental and computational methods to unravel complex reaction pathways in energy and environmental problems. Before joining the faculty at UMass Lowell, Dr. Wong was a principal engineer at Aerodyne Research, Inc. and served as Principal Investigator for several federally funded, multi-institutional projects. Dr. Wong was also a postdoctoral researcher at MIT, under the mentorship of Prof. William H. Green, Jr., where he worked on developing detailed kinetic models for predicting yield bounds of selective propylene oxidation on bifunctional catalysts. Dr. Wong received his Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from Northwestern University, under the mentorship of Prof. Linda J. Broadbelt, where he studied polystyrene and polypropylene pyrolysis chemistry and silane pyrolysis chemistry. 

SELECTED AWARDS AND HONORS

National Science Foundation CAREER Award (2019)

North American Symposium on Chemical Reaction Engineering (NASCRE) Travel Award (2019)

B. J. Martin Dissertation Year Fellowship, Northwestern University (2002)

International Symposia on Chemical Reaction Engineering (ISCRE) Travel Award (2002)

Other Professional Appointments

Visiting Scholar, National Taiwan University (2022)

Principal Engineer, Aerodyne Research, Inc. (2010-2014)

Senior Engineer, Aerodyne Research, Inc. (2005-2010)