Programmable Assembly of Functional Materials
Our group works at the interface of materials science, AI, and robotics to develop autonomous laboratory platforms for accelerated scientific discovery.
The group is led by Dr Shijing Sun and is part of the Department of Materials Science & Metallurgy, University of Cambridge.
News
Postdoctoral researcher Zuyang Ye gave an oral presentation at the UKPorMat Early Career Researcher Conference at the University of Liverpool.
Congratulations to PhD student Hemanth Ramesh on receiving the travel grant from Sciprios for the autonomous lab summer school at Berkeley! Gallery image
Department of Materials Science & Metallurgy joins the founding lab network of CuspAI’s AI Materials Foundry. MSM News Article
Congratulations to PhD student Hemanth Ramesh on starting his summer internship at Microsoft Research!
Shijing gave a talk and joined the panel discussion at the Cambridge Alumni event, Artificial Intelligence in the Physical Sciences: Leveraging AI for Scientific Discovery, in London.
Shijing gave an invited talk on Accelerated Materials Discovery with Autonomous Labs at the ML2MD Symposium 2026 at Uppsala University.
PhD student Clara Tamura gave a three-minute research highlight at the Armourers and Brasiers’ Cambridge Forum 2026.