
Current Group Members
Meet our awesome students and postdocs
Priciple Investigator
Professor Dave H. Tsai

Professor Hsinhan Tsai is an assistant professor in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering (CBE) at The State Univerisity of New York at Buffalo (SUNY-Buffalo). Before joining the SUNY-Buffalo, He was J. Robert Oppenheimer (JRO) Distinguished Postdoc Fellow at Los Alamos National Laboratory and a postdoctoral associate at the University of California, Berkeley with Prof. Jefferey R. Long at Department of Chemistry. He also works as an R&D development engineer in the California Technology Center at First Solar. He holds BS/MS degrees in Chemistry/Polymer Chemistry and obtained his Ph.D. in Material Science and Nanoengineering.
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Education:
Ph.D in Materials Science and Nanogineering from Rice University​
M.S. in Polymer Chemistry fron National Taipei University of Technology
B.S. in Chemistry from Fu Jen Catholic University ​
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Awards and Honors:
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R&D 100 award – Solution-processed Perovskite Crystalline Films (SPeC) (2023)
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Rising Star of Science Award, Research.com (2022)
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Highly Cited Researcher, Clarivate (2021)
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Supernova Silver Award, First Solar (2021)
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Rosalind Franklin Young Investigator Award, Argonne National Laboratory (2020)
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J. Robert Oppenheimer Distinguished Postdoc Fellowship, Los Alamos National Laboratory (2019)
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MRS Graduate Student Gold Award, Material Research Society (2018) ​​
Graduate Students

Rongbo Ji (he/him)
​Program: Ph.D. in CBE (joined Spring 2025)
​M.S. in Chem. Eng., Columbia Univeristy (2023)
B.S in Chemistry, University of South California (2022)
Email: rongboji@buffalo.edu
Research:​ TBD​​
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Mahdi Montazeri (he/him)
​Program: Ph.D. in CBE (joined Spring 2025)
M.S. in Mater. Eng., Iran University of Science and Technology, 2024
​B.S. in Mater. and Metall. Eng., Iran University of Science and Technology, 2021
Email: mahdimon@buffalo.edu
Research:​ TBD​​​
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Cunyi Wei (he/him)
​Program: M.S. in CBE (joined Fall 2024)
​B.S. in Chem Eng., Jiangxi University of Science and Technology, 2024
Email: cunyiwei@buffalo.edu
Research:​ TBD​​​
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Undergraduate Students
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Melina Toromani (she/her)
​Program: B.S. in CBE (expected 2027)
​Email: melisato@buffalo.edu
Research:​ TBD​​​
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