People

  • 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

Qi  Li

Position: Postdoctoral Fellow

Hanyu Liu

Position: Postdoctoral Fellow

Nicklas David Meuse

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