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Chen-Jui (Ben) Huang 黃貞睿, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor · Chemical Engineering

National Taiwan University of Science and Technology (NTUST)

Email cjhuang@mail.ntust.edu.tw

Office Room E2-808

Lab Room E2-301

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Biography

Ben Huang joins Taiwan Tech's Department of Chemical Engineering as Assistant Professor in August 2026. He is currently a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering, University of Chicago, working with Prof. Ying Shirley Meng, and a Resident Associate in the Imaging Group at Argonne's Advanced Photon Source.

He completed his Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering at Taiwan Tech in 2021 under Prof. Bing Joe Hwang, with a dissertation on probing electrochemical energy materials by in-operando/situ spectroscopy and imaging. He spent a year as a visiting student researcher in Prof. Hongjie Dai's group at Stanford (2016–2017).

His expertise spans advanced battery materials, synchrotron X-ray characterization (XRD, XAS, XPS, tomography), and in-situ/operando techniques. He has led collaborative research projects funded by industry (LG Energy Solution, BMW) and government agencies, and mentored more than twenty graduate and undergraduate students.

Research interests

All-solid-state battery materials and interfaces
Anode-free lithium metal batteries
Operando / in-situ synchrotron X-ray spectroscopy (XAS, XRD, XPS)
X-ray micro-computed tomography (µXCT) and 3D tomography
FIB-SEM and 3D reconstruction
Transmission X-ray microscopy (TXM)

Education

Ph.D. · Chemical Engineering

National Taiwan University of Science and Technology — 2016–2021

Advisor: Prof. Bing Joe Hwang
B.S. · Chemical Engineering

National Taiwan University of Science and Technology — 2012–2016

Experience

Assistant Professor

Department of Chemical Engineering, Taiwan Tech — Aug 2026 – present
Postdoctoral Researcher

Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering, University of Chicago — Apr 2023 – Mar 2026

Advisor: Prof. Ying Shirley Meng
Resident Associate · Imaging Group

Advanced Photon Source, Argonne National Laboratory — Apr 2024 – Mar 2026
Postdoctoral Researcher

Department of Chemical Engineering, Taiwan Tech — Sep 2022 – Mar 2023

Advisor: Prof. Bing Joe Hwang
Visiting Student Researcher

Department of Chemistry, Stanford University — Oct 2016 – Sep 2017

Advisor: Prof. Hongjie Dai

Honors & awards

Yushan Young Fellow

Ministry of Education, Taiwan — 2026–2031
CTCI Foundation Science and Technology Scholarship

Research scholarship — 2021
Honorary Membership, Phi Tau Phi Scholastic Honor Society

Phi Tau Phi Scholastic Honor Society of the Republic of China — 2021
Ph.D. Candidate Scholarship

National Synchrotron Radiation Research Center — 2019, 2020
HERCULES Program (Higher European Research Course for Users of Large Experiment Systems)

Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST, now NSTC), Taiwan — 2019
Global Networking Talent 3.0 Plan Scholarship

Ministry of Education, Taiwan — 2016

Prof. Hongjie Dai's Lab, Stanford University, USA

Currently recruiting

The first cohort joined in August 2026.

Meet the founding members below. Graduate positions for this cohort are filled, but undergraduate project spots remain open — if something matches what you want to work on, see the Join page or email Prof. Huang directly.

See open positions Email Prof. Huang directly

Members