Chenglong (Jackie) Wang is a mechanical engineering student working at the interface of additive manufacturing, soft matter, and field-enabled fabrication. His work focuses on multi-physics polymer and elastomer manufacturing, with experience across multiple advanced 3D printing paradigms driven by distinct physical fields, including acoustic-field-assisted fabrication, photopolymerization-based printing, and electric-field-driven deposition. His research centers on understanding the physical mechanisms by which external energy fields govern material transport, curing kinetics, and structural formation during additive manufacturing.
He has worked on high-resolution polymer fabrication spanning electrohydrodynamic printing, light-based additive manufacturing, and ultrasound-assisted printing of functional materials. His approach emphasizes identifying the governing physical principles underlying fabrication processes and using this understanding to achieve precise control over structure, material behavior, and functionality. By integrating experimental investigation with physics-based modeling, he studies how field–material interactions can be leveraged to expand the capabilities of additive manufacturing beyond conventional limits.
His broader interests lie in advanced manufacturing, functional materials, and multi-physics systems, particularly where fundamental physical insight enables new fabrication strategies. He is motivated by the challenge of uncovering and engineering the physical processes that allow complex structures and material systems to be realized.
Chenglong grew up in Linyi, Shandong, China. His early curiosity about how physical systems operate and how structures are created led him toward engineering and scientific research. He views research as the disciplined pursuit of understanding and controlling physical phenomena to enable new technological capabilities. Outside of research, he enjoys traveling and learning languages; he speaks Chinese, English, and German, and is currently learning Spanish.