Xiwen Gong is an assistant professor of Chemical Engineering, and by courtesy an assistant professor of Materials Science and Engineering, Macromolecular Science & Engineering, and Applied Physics. Xiwen currently serves as an Associate Editor for ACS Photonics and serves on the Editorial Advisory Board of ACS Applied Electronic Materials.

Xiwen joined the University of Michigan in 2021. Before that, Xiwen worked as a post-doctoral fellow with Zhenan Bao at the Department of Chemical Engineering, Stanford University (2018-2020). At Stanford, Xiwen focused on developing soft and stretchable semiconductors and devices for wearable electronics (inSPIREd Talk). Xiwen gained her PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering with Ted Sargent at the University of Toronto. During her PhD (2014-2018), Xiwen focused on the design of novel materials for solar energy harvesting, light emitting, and sensing. 

Xiwen was the recipient of the Extraordinary Potential Prize and the “Rising Stars in EECS 2017” (Stanford University), the Inspiring Women in Science (runner-up, scientific achievement category, by Nature, 2023). She is a senior Schmidt Science Fellow (inaugural) and Amazon Physical Science Fellow. In 2024, Xiwen received the NSF Career Award.