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


​Assistant Professor: The State Univerisity of New York at Buffalo (SUNY-Buffalo) (Jan. 2025 - )
Email: htsai7@buffalo.edu
Postdoc – University of California, Berkeley (2022 - 2024)
Advisor: Prof. Jeffrey R. Long
R&D Engineer – First Solar, Inc. (2020 - 2022)
Postdoc – Los Alamos National Laboratory (2019 - 2020)
J. Robert Oppenheimer (JRO) Distinguished Postdoc Fellow
Ph.D. – Rice University​ (2018)
Advisor: Prof. Pullickel M. Ajayan and Prof. Jun Lou
M.S. – National Taipei University of Technology (2010)
B.S. – Fu Jen Catholic University ​(2006)
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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 (G1)
​M.S. in Chem. Eng., Columbia Univeristy (2023)
B.S in Chemistry, University of South California (2022)
Email: rongboji@buffalo.edu
Research:​ Hybrid Materials​ / Photovoltaics
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Mahdi Montazeri (he/him)
​Program: Ph.D. in CBE (G1)
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:​ Hybrid Materials​ / Conducting MOF
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Cunyi Wei (he/him)
​Program: M.S. in CBE (G2)
​B.S. in Chem Eng., Jiangxi University of Science and Technology, 2024
Email: cunyiwei@buffalo.edu
Research:​ Hybrid Materials
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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:​ Conducting MOF
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