Group News

Fall 2025 Group Meeting Recap

Our group successfully concluded the Fall 2025 Group Meeting, where all members, both individuals and sub-groups, shared their research progress and future plans.

This meeting provided an excellent opportunity for open discussion, collaborative idea exchange, and strengthening our team cohesion. We look forward to continuing this momentum into the coming semester.

Keep up the good work!👏

Highlights from the 2025 AIChE Annual Conference in Boston

• Congratulations to Daniel Baek for winning 1st place in one of the Materials Engineering & Sciences poster divisions at the 2025 AIChE Undergraduate Student Poster Competition. 🎉 This work was co-authored by Daniel Arnoldi, Melinda Lin, Hyeonji Park, and Dennis Lee. Congratulations to the team on this wonderful achievement!

• Our faculty, postdoctoral researchers, and graduate students successfully represented the Materials Science and Chemical Engineering Department at the 2025 AIChE Recruitment Fair. We had the pleasure of speaking with many talented students, and we hope to welcome some of them to our program in the near future!

SPRING 2025 OVPR Seed Grant Award

Dennis Lee has been selected as one of the awardees in the Office of the Vice President for Research (OVPR) Seed Grant Program for Spring 2025 at Stony Brook University. This competitive internal program supports faculty across disciplines in developing preliminary results to strengthen future extramural funding proposals.

His project, titled “Fundamental Studies on Bimetallic Conductive MOF-Textile Composites for Chemical Protection Applications,” will be supported with a total award of $55,000 for the period September 1, 2025 – March 1, 2027.

Congratulations to Our 2025 MSCE Convocation Graduates 

• Congratulations to Kevin (M.S.), Linda (B.S.), and Melinda (B.S.) on their graduation from the Department of Materials Science and Chemical Engineering!

• Kevin began his career as an Associate Chemical Engineer at Princeton Critical Materials, wishing him all the best in this next chapter. We also celebrate his well-deserved Excellence in Research Award.

• Linda and Melinda will be joining our group this summer through the Accelerated B.E./M.S. program. Welcome! 😄 We are excited to continue working with them, and congratulations to Linda on receiving the Academic Excellence Award.

• At the 2025 NSLS-II & CFN Users' Meeting, Hanu successfully presented a poster, and Dennis contributed as the Poster Session Chair!

• Hanu successfully completed her first poster presentation at the 19th Annual Women in Medicine & Science (WIMS) Research Day at Stony Brook University! Congratulations, Hanu!

• We have welcomed our new group members: Daniel Arnoldi (PhD student), Adeel Akram (Intern), and PV Hanukrutha (Intern). Welcome! 😄

• We had our first group lunch! 

• Dennis delivered an invited seminar to high school students participating in the Garcia Summer Program at Stony Brook University.

Title: Unlocking the Secrets of Porous Materials: From Everyday Uses to Cutting-Edge Science

• Dennis has been elected as a member of the Center for Functional Nanomaterials User Executive Committee (CFN UEC) at Brookhaven National Lab (BNL) for the 2024-2026 term. [link]

• Dennis gave an invited seminar at Pusan National University (PNU) in Busan, South Korea.

Title: When Atomic Layer Deposition Meets Area Selective Chemical Transformation Processes

• Dennis gave an invited seminar at the Korea Institute of Industrial Technology (KITECH) in Ansan, South Korea.

Title: Porous Materials Engineering: Chemical Remediation and Gas Separations

• Dr. Ju Young Woo and Dr. Whi Dong Kim from the Korea Institute of Industrial Technology (KITECH) visited us and gave excellent presentations on their research interests! 

• The group's first undergraduate student, Daniel Baek, has joined us. Welcome, Daniel!

• The Porous Materials Engineering Lab (PMEL) is now officially open. We are excited to recruit new students and start establishing the lab!

• The group's first graduate student, Kevin Poon, has joined us. Welcome, Kevin!

• Dennis joins Stony Brook University. Go Seawolves!