Zhiwei Peng

Zhiwei Peng is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering at the Faculty of Engineering, University of Alberta. He holds a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from Caltech and was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Toronto Department of Chemistry.

• Education: Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering (Caltech), Postdoctoral Fellowship (University of Toronto)

His research focuses on active matter, soft matter mechanics, and non-equilibrium statistical mechanics. Key areas include microrheology, transport phenomena, collective motion, and Brownian dynamics.

Recent publications analyze rotational Taylor dispersion, active particle transport in periodic channels, and AI-aided catheter design to combat bacterial infections. His work bridges particle-scale micromechanics with macroscopic behavior, using CUDA-enabled computational libraries and theoretical frameworks.

He teaches courses like CH E 312 - Fluid Mechanics, covering Newtonian/non-Newtonian flows, Bernoulli equations, and pipe networks.