- Principal Investigator
Dr. Shenqiang (Shen) Ren received his Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering from the University of Maryland, College Park in 2009, after which he worked as a postdoc research fellow at MIT. He has been elected to the 2025 class of Senior Members of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI), and received 2022 SUNY-Buffalo Exceptional Scholar: Sustained Achievement Award, 2015 National Science Foundation – CAREER Award, 2014 Army Research Office – Young Investigator Award, 2014 RSC Emerging Investigator – Journal of Material Chemistry, 2013 NSF EPSCOR First Award, 2013 Air Force Summer Faculty Fellowship, 2009 Dean’s Doctoral Research Award (First Prize) and Distinguished Doctoral Dissertation Award at University of Maryland, College Park.
Current Members
Zhongxuan Wang
Position: Postdoctoral Fellow
Qikun Feng
Position: Postdoctoral Fellow
Hanyu Liu
Position: Postdoctoral Fellow
Nicklas David Meuse
Position: Graduate Research Assistant
Dennis Zhao
Position: Graduate Research Assistant
Yuqin Xiong
Position: Graduate Research Assistant
Alyssa Taylor
Position: Undergraduate Research Assistant
Hannah Kriney
Position: Undergraduate Research Assistant
Dylan Stone
Position: Undergraduate Research Assistant
Samuel von Keitz
Position: Undergraduate Research Assistant
Ryan Berkowitz
Position: Undergraduate Research Assistant