Professor Sumeet Walia
Details
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College: School of Engineering
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Department: School of Engineering
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Campus: City Campus Australia
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sumeet.walia@rmit.edu.au
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ORCID: 0000-0002-3645-9847
Open to
- Masters Research or PhD student supervision
About
Current Position: Director of RMIT Centre for Opto-electronic Materials and Sensors (COMAS).
Professor Sumeet Walia is an innovator, research leader and serial inventor passionate about using technology as a vehicle to make people's lives better. Professor Sumeet Walia has built a strong capability in engineering new material systems and nanoelectronic/photonic devices for addressing critical technological bottlenecks particularly in healthcare, energy and manufacturing. This has enabled a wide range of partnerships with industry to translate cutting edge research into real world impact.
He has published over 150 peer-reviewed journal articles. His work appears in the highest quality outlets including Nature Communications, Advanced Materials, among many others. He is a named inventor on eleven patents covering multi-sector technological innovations and products.
Professor Walia is an award-winning researcher who has served on multiple boards with extensive contributions towards Inclusion, Diversity, Equity and Access in the STEM sector. He has built strong national and international partnerships with stakeholders to drive common goals.
Awards and scholarships:
2023 India Australia Business & Community Alliance (Australia India Science, Research & Development Award) (Finalist)
2022 Eureka Prize for Emerging Leader in Science
2021 40 under 40 Most Influential Asian-Australians Award in Science & Medicine category. ANU Centre for Asian-Australian Leadership, PwC, Johnson Partners and Asialink.
2020 Australian Academy of Science EMCR Fellowship
2018 Royal Society of Victoria Phillip Law Award for Physical Sciences
2018 Australia's Most Innovative Engineers 2018 by Engineers Australia
2018 Victoria Fellowship, Victorian Government
2017 MIT Technology Review Top 10 Technology Innovators under 35 in Asia Pacific
2017 Victorian Young Tall Poppy Award for Excellence in Science and Communication (Australian Institute of Policy and Science)
2017 Victorian Young Achiever of the Year for Research Impact – Victorian Government
Assessor for grants and international peer-reviewed journals:
Australian Research Council – Discovery Early Career Researcher Awards, Discovery Projects, Linkage Infrastructure Equipment and Facilities Grants, Future and Laureate Fellowships
Netherlands body of Scientific Research,
German Research Foundation
Science Fund of the Republic of Serbia
Peer-reviewer for >30 international journals (Selected examples): Energy and Environmental Science, Nature Communications, Advanced Materials, ACS Nano, Nanoscale).
Academic positions
- Director, Centre for Opto-electronic materials and sensors (COMAS)
- RMIT University
- Melbourne, Australia
- 2024 – Present
- Advisory Board
- Elevate Program, Australian Academy of Technology and Engineering
- , Australia
- 2022 – Present
- Co-Chair
- Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Committee, Science and Technology Australia
- , Australia
- 2020 – Present
- Founder and Chair
- IEEE Nanotechnology Council's Victoria Chapter
- , Australia
- 2019 – 2019
Supervisor projects
- Machine Learning and Neural Network Methods for IoT Sensing
- 23 Sep 2024
- Microbial Recycling: Harnessing Bacterial and Fungal Cells for Sustainable Degradation of Waste Materials
- 6 Aug 2024
- Artificial neural networks for versatile applications
- 4 Apr 2024
- Nanoplasmonic biosensors for lab-on-a-chip disease diagnosis
- 1 Feb 2024
- Development of a portable detection platform for viral pathogens
- 3 Oct 2023
- Piezoelectric Two-Dimensional Transition Metal Dichalcogenides Nanostructures based Flexible Nanogenerator for Energy Harvesting
- 30 Aug 2023
- Scalable atom-thin materials for monolithic electronics & optoelectronics
- 13 Jun 2023
- Towards a Bionic brain - Light driven cognitive learning in nanomaterials for Artificial Neural Networks
- 1 May 2023
- Developing Next-Generation Antimicrobial Surface Sanitizers
- 13 Apr 2023
- CSIRO-Masters: Characterisation and Analysis of Wafer Level Fabricated Electrode Platforms for Electrochemical Sensing Applications
- 8 Mar 2023
- Thermoelectric Studies of modified Cu2Se: bulk and thin film, for waste heat recovery
- 8 Mar 2023
- Investigations on Lead-free Oxide-based Piezoelectric Materials for Sustainable Energy Harvesting and Sensing Technologies
- 6 Mar 2023
- Heterojunction of Bi2Se3 and Epitaxially Grown GaN Nanostructures on Oxide-Based Substrates for Self-Powered Broadband Photodetectors
- 22 Feb 2023
- Hexagonal Silicon Germanium nanowires for light emission
- 13 Feb 2023
- Temperature-Dependent Probing of Transport and Nonlinear Optical Properties of Topological Materials
- 31 Oct 2022
- Performance Optimisation of Molecularly Imprinted Polymers Nanoparticles Based Conductometric Biosensors for Cardiac Biomarker Detection
- 23 Mar 2022
- Towards a Bionic brain - Light driven cognitive learning in nanomaterials for Artificial Neural Networks
- 10 Dec 2021
- Development of TiCoSb-based Half-Heusler Materials for Thermoelectric Applications
- 11 Nov 2021
- Electronic synapses: Mimicking neural behaviour in electronic memories
- 5 Oct 2021
- Investigation on Rare Earth Manganites, Tantalates, and Vanadates under Extreme Conditions of Temperature and Pressure
- 22 Sep 2021
- Fabrication of III-Nitride and Metal Chalcogen Heterostructure for Broadband Photodetection
- 6 Sep 2021
- Nano-reinforced Multifunctional Composites
- 15 Apr 2021
- Artificial neural networks for versatile applications
- 12 Mar 2021
- Synthesis of Structurally and Compositionally Tuned Two-Dimensional Materials and Their Heterostructures for Electrochemical Water Splitting
- 13 Jan 2021
- Band Engineering of Two-dimensional Material Systems for Tuneability of Electronic and Optoelectronic Properties
- 17 Apr 2020
- Performance Optimization of Conductometric Biosensors
- 20 Mar 2020
- Low-Dimensional Materials for Antimicrobial Treatment
- 10 Dec 2019
- Non-invasive Bioelectronic Devices for Diabetes Management
- 11 Nov 2019
- Two-dimensional Indium Oxide and Chalcogenide-based Memory Systems for Neuromorphic Devices
- 1 Oct 2019
- Synthesis of Two-Dimensional Heterostructures for High-Performance metal-ion Batteries
- 8 Jul 2019
- Photonics of Novel Two-Dimensional Semiconductors and Heterostructures
- 6 May 2019
- Conformable Sensors for Healthcare and Environmental Sensing Applications
- 18 Apr 2019
- Phase Change Oxide Electronics and Sensors
- 18 Sep 2018
- Development of Two-Dimensional Layered Nanomaterials for Tribological Applications
- 3 Sep 2018
- Device Engineering of III-Nitride Semiconductors Based Sensors
- 17 Aug 2018
- High Performance Electronic Devices Based on Two-dimensional Nano-scale Metal Oxides and Chalcogenides
- 20 Apr 2017
- Thickness Tailored Synthesis of Two Dimensional Materials and Tuning Their Intrinsic Properties: Fundamentals to Application
- 6 Mar 2017
- Switchable Nanoelectronic Devices Beyond Silicon
- 11 Jul 2016
- Metal Oxide based wearable electronic devices and sensors
- 24 Mar 2016
- Rigid and stretchable vanadium dioxide (VO2) thin films: challenges and applications
- 3 Feb 2016
- Tuning resistive switching in complex oxide memristors
- 3 Feb 2016
- Large Area 2D MoO3 for Electronics and Optoelectronics Applications
- 1 Jan 2016
Research interests
Electronic and optical devices, Low-dimensional materials, Materials engineering, Nanoelectronics and photonics, Flexible devices, Neuromorphics, Bio-inspired devices, Optical memories, Artificial brain and vision systems, Photodetectors, Chromic and thermoelectric coatings, Sensors, Artificial Intelligence Hardware (miniaturised electronic and optical chips for different functions), Biomaterials, Sensors
