People

Principal Investigator

Postdoctoral Fellow

Graduate Students

  • Anthony Moses (2024 – )
  • Tanvir Ahmed (2024 – )
  • Romana Akter Shathy (2025 – )

Undergraduate Student

  • Emily Qiao (High school student, summer-fall 2025)

Former Group Members

Graduate & Postdoctoral Alumni

  1. Dr. Hanjie Lin (Ph.D. student, 2019-2025)
  2. Hamidreza Yousefi (MS student, 2023-2025)
  3. Prof. Chun Chu (Ph.D. student, 2019-2024)
  4. Dr. Shuya Li (Postdoctoral Fellow, 2022-2023): National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL)
  5. Huanxin Zhang (M.S. student, 2021-2023)
  6. Dr. Andrew Davis (Ph.D. student, 2016-2021): Head of R&D at Tagnite Industries, North Dakota
  7. Dr. Elan Hofman (Ph.D. student, 2015-2020): Research scientist at nanoComposix
  8. Prof. Zhi-Jun Li (Postdoctoral Fellow, 2017-2020): Professor at Chinese Academy of Science (CAS)
  9. Prof. Feng Tao (Visiting professor, 2018-2019): Anhui Polytechnic University
  10. Amanda Blaker (MS student, 2015-2017): Anheuser-Busch Companies, LLC

Undergraduate Alumni

  1. Louis Bercaw (REU Program, summer 2025): University of Alabama
  2. Samantha Hart (NSF Energy Engine Research Scholar, summer 2025)
  3. Joe Hu (Undergraduate student, 2024-2025)
  4. Megan Yee (REU, summer 2024): UMass Amherst
  5. Alicia Leem (Undergraduate student, 2024)
  6. Jacob England (REU, summer 2023): Undergraduate student at Western Carolina University
  7. Xiangyu Zhou (Undergraduate student, 2022 – 2023)
  8. Aidan Nabinger (REU, summer 2022): Ph.D student at University at Buffalo
  9. Alexis Luglio (REU, summer 2021): Undergraduate student at the College of New Jersey
  10. Annie J Hsu (REU, summer 2021): Ph. D student at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
  11. Likang Ding (Undergraduate student, 2020 – 2021)
  12. Nori Zaccheo (Undergraduate student, SUSTAIN scholar, 2018 – 2020). SU M.S. student.
  13. Rachel Weiss (REU, summer 2019): Undergraduate student at Jacksonville University
  14. Clare Pierret (REU, summer 2019): Undergraduate student at University of Notre Dame
  15. Oduduabasi Isaiah James (Undergraduate student, 2018 – 2019)
  16. Olushola Coker Jr. (Undergraduate student, 2018 – 2019)
  17. James Kimball (REU, summer 2018): Ph.D student at Florida State University
  18. Robert Devin Nonnenman (Undergraduate student, 2017-2018): YINCAE Advanced Materials, LLC
  19. Kevin Chen (Undergraduate student, 2017-2018)
  20. Phanxico Nguyen (REU, summer 2017): University at Buffalo
  21. Richard Robinson (Undergraduate student, 2016-2017): Ph.D student at State University of New York at Binghamton
  22. Philipp Müller (REU, summer 2016): Graz University of Technology, Austria

High School Alumni

  1. Aphone Shin (ACS project seed program, summer 2025), Institute of Technology at Syracuse Central
  2. Briella Corless (ACS Project SEED program, Summer 2024), Institute of Technology at Syracuse Central
  3. Denver Qiao (High school student, summer 2023)
  4. Alicia Leem (High school student, 2022): Cornell University
  5. Mark Vu (High school student, ACS Project SEED program, Summer 2022)
  6. Michael Vu (High school student, ACS Project SEED program, Summer 2019): Cornell University