STAFF PROFILE
Professor Sumeet Walia
Position:
Professor
College / Portfolio:
STEM College
School / Department:
STEM|School of Engineering
Phone:
+61399252136
Email:
sumeet.walia@rmit.edu.au
Campus:
City Campus
Contact me about:
Research supervision,
Media comments
Awards and scholarships
- 2019 RMIT Award for Research Excellence – Early-career researcher (Technology)
- 2018 Victoria Fellowship
- 2018 Johnson & Johnson Victorian Government QuickFire Innovation Challenge (Team)
- 2018 Royal Society of Victoria – Phillip Law Award for Excellence in Physical Sciences
- 2018 Named as Australia's Most Innovative Engineers – Engineers Australia
- 2017 Victorian Young Tall Poppy Award for Excellence in Science and Communication – Australian Institute of Policy and Science
- 2017 Named as Top 10 Innovators under 35 in Asia Pacific (APAC), by the MIT Technology Review
- 2017 Victorian Young Achiever for Research Impact
- 2017 Malcolm Moore Industry Award
- 2017 Ian Potter Foundation Travel Fellowship
- 2017 RMIT Vice Chancellor's Postdoctoral Research Fellowship
- 2016 Netexplo-UNESCO Top 100 Innovations of 2016 (for nano memory cell innovation)
- 2016 RMIT Award for Research Impact 2016 – Early Career Researcher (Technology)
- 2016 RMIT Award for Team Research Excellence
- 2015 RMIT Media Star of the Year (Team)
Professional Activities and memberships
- Executive Board member, Science and Technology Australia
- RMIT Enabling Capabilities Platform Advisory Committee (Advanced Manufacturing and Fabrication)
- Wiley Advisors 2016
- Australian Academy of Science Early-mid Career Research forum
- Royal Society of Victoria (RSV)
- Australian Microscopy and Microanalysis Society
- Australian Nanotechnology network (ANN)
Editorial roles
- Book Editor - CRC Press (1. ISBN 9781138587984, 2. ISBN 9781138710368)
- Guest Editor, Beilstein Journal of Nanotechnology – Special Issue on 2D Materials
Assessor for grants and international peer-reviewed journals
- Australian Research Council – Discovery Early Career Researcher Awards, Discovery Projects, Linkage Infrastructure Equipment and Facilities Grants
- Netherlands body of Scientific Research,
- German Research Foundation
- Peer-reviewer for international journals (Selected examples): Energy and Environmental Science, Journal of Electronic Materials, Thin Solid Films, PLOS One, Journal of Materials Chemistry, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, Nanoscale, Advanced Functional Materials, Small.
Conference and workshop organisation and facilitation
- 2019 Symposium Co-chair, Electronic and Optical Materials (encompassing seven key themes), IUMRS-ICA, Perth
- 2018 Session facilitator, Thinking BIG with Nano, ANN Workshop, Melbourne
- 2018 Session Chair, Emerging Materials, International Conference for Young Researchers in Advanced Materials (IUMRS-ICYRAM)
- 2018 Session and workshop co-leader, Science Meets Business, Brisbane
- 2018 Technical Committee - Applied Nanotechnology and Nanoscience International Conference, Berlin
Research
- Scalable materials synthesis (low-dimensional materials and thin films)
- Defect engineering
- Tunable materials manipulation
- Micro/nano electronics (including wearables)
- Artificial synapses
- Light-matter interaction
- Optoelectronics
- Sensors (gas, radiation, pressure, bio)
- Research translation
Teaching
- Course Co-ordinator, MicroNanoSystems, MEMS, and NEMS (EEET2044/2379)
- Guest Lecturer, Research Communication (OENG 1161)
- Lecturer, Electronic Materials (EEET 2260)
Postgraduate supervision
PhD, Masters by Research and Honours aspirants in cross-disciplinary areas relevant to materials synthesis and tunability for applications in electronics (micro/nano), sensors and field-effect/photo transistors.
- 2013 Doctor of Philosophy (PhD., Electronic Materials), RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia
- 2009 Bachelor of Engineering (BEng., Electronics with 1st Class Honours), RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia
Reviewer for international journals
Energy and Environmental Science (highest ranked journal in the field of Environmental Science), Journal of Electronic Materials, Thin Solid Films, PLOS One, Journal of Materials Chemistry, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter and Nanoscale.
Professional memberships
Wiley Advisors 2016, The Australian Academy of Science Early and Mid-Career Researcher Forum, Royal Society of Victoria (RSV), Materials Research Society (MRS), and the Australian Nanotechnology network (ANN).
- Kabir, S.,Nirantar, S.,Monshipouri, M.,Low, M.,Walia, S.,Sriram, S.,Bhaskaran, M. (2022). Device Geometry Insights for Efficient Electrically Driven Insulator-to-Metal Transition in Vanadium Dioxide Thin-Films In: Advanced Electronic Materials, 8, 1 - 9
- Shabbir, B.,Liu, J.,Krishnamurthi, V.,Tran, K.,Abbas, S.,Khan, H.,Walia, S.,Li, Y.,Spencer, M.,Mahmood, N., et al.,, . (2022). Soft X-ray Detectors Based on SnS Nanosheets for the Water Window Region In: Advanced Functional Materials, 32, 1 - 8
- Gu, Y.,Serna, M.,Mohan, S.,Ahmed, T.,Walia, S. et al.,, . (2022). Sulfurization Engineering of One-Step Low-Temperature MoS2 and WS2 Thin Films for Memristor Device Applications In: Advanced Electronic Materials, 8, 1 - 8
- Ahmed, T.,Kuriakose, S.,Abbas, S.,Mayes, E.,Mazumder, A.,Balendhran, S.,Spencer, M.,Akinwande, D.,Bhaskaran, M.,Sriram, S.,Walia, S. (2022). Mixed Ionic-Electronic Charge Transport in Layered Black-Phosphorus for Low-Power Memory In: Advanced Functional Materials, 32, 1 - 11
- Walia, S. (2022). Light-Driven Machine Vision Using Low-Dimensional Material Systems In: Advanced Materials Technologies, , 1 - 10
- Kumari, S.,Chouhan, A.,Sharma, O.,Abbas, S.,Tran, K.,Spencer, M.,Bhargava, S.,Walia, S.,Ray, A.,Khatri, O. (2022). Surface Functionalization of WS2Nanosheets with Alkyl Chains for Enhancement of Dispersion Stability and Tribological Properties In: ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, 14, 1334 - 1346
- Rahman, M.,Cai, L.,Abbas, S.,Tucker, S.,Burton, A.,Perera, G.,Spencer, M.,Walia, S.,Sriram, S.,Gutruf, P.,Bhaskaran, M. (2022). Nicotine Sensors for Wearable Battery-Free Monitoring of Vaping In: ACS Sensors, 7, 82 - 88
- Dudko, I.,Dursap, T.,Lamirand, A.,Botella, C.,Regreny, P.,Danescu, A.,Brottet, S.,Bugnet, M.,Walia, S.,Chauvin, N.,Penuelas, J. (2022). Hexagonal Ge Grown by Molecular Beam Epitaxy on Self-Assisted GaAs Nanowires In: Crystal Growth and Design, 22, 32 - 36
- Monshipouri, M.,Walia, S.,Bhaskaran, M.,Sriram, S. (2021). Particle tracking simulation of an air channel transistor In: AIP Advances, 11, 1 - 7
- Dhanabalan, S.,Sriram, S.,Walia, S.,Avaninathan, S.,Carrasco, M.,Bhaskaran, M. (2021). Wearable Label-Free Optical Biodetectors: Progress and Perspectives In: Advanced Photonics Research, 2, 1 - 18
Note: Supervision projects since 2004
10 PhD Completions20 PhD Current Supervisions and 1 Masters by Research Current Supervisions
Nanomaterial synthesis, Micro/Nano electonics, Raman spectroscopy, Two-dimensional materials, Thermoelectrics, Memristors, Flexible/organic electronics
- Scalable atom-thin materials for monolithic electronics and optoelectronics. Funded by: ARC Discovery Projects commencing in 2022 from (2022 to 2024)
- Large-Area Detection of Improvised Explosive Devices by Portable Artificial Intelligence-Powered ElectronicNoses (administered by USyd). Funded by: Office of National Intelligence National Intelligence and Security Discovery Research Grants from (2022 to 2025)
- New window technologies for residential buildings. Funded by: Innovation Connections grant - Cat 1 from (2022 to 2022)
- Photonic Chip Integration Facility. Funded by: ARC Linkage Infrastructure Equipment and Facilities (LIEF) Grant from (2021 to 2022)
- DNA nano biosensor for cancer diagnostics (Administered by University of Melbourne). Funded by: National Foundation for Medical Research and Innovation (NFMRI) 2018 onwards from (2021 to 2022)