2D MINDs Lab

Soumya served on the panel titled 'Positive and negative impact of AI in sustainability' at the 5th International Climate Action Congress in Santander, Spain.
Jiyuan Guo has joined us as M.Sc. project student!

April 2026

Soumya delivered an invited seminar at the Department of Physics, Imperial College, London.
The Centre for Neuromorphic Technologies has now been officially launched.

Soumya was invited to attend the UK-Netherlands Innovation Mission on 'Future of Compute' at the Royal Society, London
Soumya has been appointed the Deputy Director of the newly launched ECS Centre for Neuromorphic Technologies in Southampton. (https://www.southampton.ac.uk/research/groups/centre-for-neuromorphic-technologies-cent)

It is a new academic year and we are pleased to have Shenae Reid and Yohan Gungaram, both final year students in Electrical and Electronics Engineering join the MINDs lab for research projects.

Soumya attended the launch meeting of the EPSRC Funded NeuMAT network (https://www.neumat.co.uk/) at Trinity College, Cambridge

Soumya has been invited to speak at the MRS Fall Meeting 2025 at Boston, USA.
Soumya joins the Technical Program Committee (Track: Other Emerging Devices and Compute Technology) of the 7th IEEE International Conference on Emerging Electronics, Bengaluru, India, Dec 2025

Soumya co-organised the 3rd 2D TMDs conference in Churchill College, Cambridge. https://2dtmds2025.com/
Jiasheng Zhao joined our team for his Masters Research Project.

Soumya presented our results on 'Spin injection using ferromagnetic van der Waals contacts' at the IoP Condensed Matter and Quantum Materials Conference 2025 at Bristol, UK
Soumya gave an invited talk at the 5th International Symposium on Memory and Computing (ISMC 2025) in Sofia, Bulgaria
Our invited perspective on 'Can a ferroelectric diode be a selector-less, universal, non-volatile memory?' is now published in MRS Energy & Sustainability. https://doi.org/10.1557/s43581-025-00137-2. Great insights from Prof Deep Jariwala and Dr Xiwen Liu!