3 March 2025: Dr Ellie Hajizadeh and Dr Nick Robe were awarded $200k Australia's Economic Accelerator - Ignite grant to scale-up their novel AI-enabled computational software tool for accelerated and intelligent discovery, design, and deployment of new materials technologies.
1 March 2025: Jalal Abdlohai's paper, a PhD student within the Soft Matter Informatics Research group was featured as Editor's choice in the Journal of Rheology.
11 February 2025: Dr Ellie Hajizadeh was appointed as the Australian Delegate to the International Committee of Rheology (ICR).
12 December 2024: Amal Jayawardena's paper was featured as cover art at the Journal of Physical Chemistry B.
12 December 2024: Dr Ellie Hajizadeh was awarded the "Collaboration Award" by the School of Electrical, Mechanical, and Infrastructure Engineering at the University of Melbourne for her exemplary collaboration both locally and internationally and across multiple schools and faculties.
25 November - 6 December 2024: Dr Hansani Weeratunge from SLIIT visited the Soft Matter Informatics Research Group, working on augmenting XAI with Bayesian optimization for accelerating the design of underwater acoustic coatings.
26 November 2024: Dr Ellie Hajizadeh was awarded $901k Discovery Project funding by the Australian Research Council (ARC) for her work on AI-assisted computational design and robotic synthesis of linear and star polypeptides against multi-drug resistant bacteria.
19 October 2024: Dr Ellie Hajizadeh was awarded $660k "national industry-based PhD program" fund from the Australian Department of Education and the industry partner, SDI Limited to lead a major research program, spanning multiple departments, schools, and faculties, involving 3 PhD students to work on the AI-assisted computational design and development of next-generation dental restorative materials.
15 September 2024: Prof Gareth McKinley from MIT visited the Soft Matter Informatics Research Group.
20 August 2024: Dr Hajizadeh was re-elected as the Secretary of the Australian Society of Rheology.
1 March 2025: Jalal Abdlohai's paper, a PhD student within the Soft Matter Informatics Research group was featured as Editor's choice in the Journal of Rheology.
11 February 2025: Dr Ellie Hajizadeh was appointed as the Australian Delegate to the International Committee of Rheology (ICR).
12 December 2024: Amal Jayawardena's paper was featured as cover art at the Journal of Physical Chemistry B.
12 December 2024: Dr Ellie Hajizadeh was awarded the "Collaboration Award" by the School of Electrical, Mechanical, and Infrastructure Engineering at the University of Melbourne for her exemplary collaboration both locally and internationally and across multiple schools and faculties.
25 November - 6 December 2024: Dr Hansani Weeratunge from SLIIT visited the Soft Matter Informatics Research Group, working on augmenting XAI with Bayesian optimization for accelerating the design of underwater acoustic coatings.
26 November 2024: Dr Ellie Hajizadeh was awarded $901k Discovery Project funding by the Australian Research Council (ARC) for her work on AI-assisted computational design and robotic synthesis of linear and star polypeptides against multi-drug resistant bacteria.
19 October 2024: Dr Ellie Hajizadeh was awarded $660k "national industry-based PhD program" fund from the Australian Department of Education and the industry partner, SDI Limited to lead a major research program, spanning multiple departments, schools, and faculties, involving 3 PhD students to work on the AI-assisted computational design and development of next-generation dental restorative materials.
15 September 2024: Prof Gareth McKinley from MIT visited the Soft Matter Informatics Research Group.
20 August 2024: Dr Hajizadeh was re-elected as the Secretary of the Australian Society of Rheology.