People

Principal Investigator

Postdoctoral Fellow

Graduate Students

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

Undergraduate Student

  • Louis Bercaw (REU, summer 2025, University of Alabama)
  • Samantha Hart (Undergraduate student, Summer 2025, NSF Engine program)
  • Aphone Shin (High school student, ACS Project SEED program, Summer 2025), Institute of Technology High School

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

High School Alumni

  1. Briella Corless (High school student, ACS Project SEED program, Summer 2024), Institute of Technology High School
  2. Denver Qiao (High school student, summer 2023)
  3. Alicia Leem (High school student, 2022): Cornell University
  4. Mark Vu (High school student, ACS Project SEED program, Summer 2022)
  5. Michael Vu (High school student, ACS Project SEED program, Summer 2019): Cornell University