December 2025

James will join the National University of Singapore (NUS) as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering (ME) under the NUS Presidential Young Professorship (PYP) in May 2026.

November 2025, Singapore

James gave a research seminar on "Multiscale and Multifunctional Mechanical Metamaterials" at the National University of Singapore (NUS) Department of Mechanical Engineering.

October 2025, Atlanta, Georgia

James gave an oral presentation on "Granular Multiscale Architected Materials" and poster presentation on "Multiscale and Multifunctional Sustainable Metamaterials" (Future Faculty Symposium) at the 2025 Society of Engineering Science Annual Technical Meeting in Atlanta, Georgia.

September 2025, Bangkok, Thailand

James attended the Forbes Under 30 Summit Asia held in Bangkok, Thailand.

June 2025

Our work "Double-network-inspired mechanical metamaterials" is featured on the front cover of Nature Materials.

May 2025

James recognized in the Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia list 2025 (Healthcare & Science category). 

May 2025

Our work "Exploiting multiscale dynamic toughening in multicomponent alloy metamaterials for extreme impact mitigation" is featured on the front cover of Science Advances.

May 2025

Our work "Double-network-inspired mechanical metamaterials" is featured on MIT News.

March 2025

Our perspective on "Enabling three-dimensional architected materials across length scales and timescales" (published in Nature Materials) is featured on MIT News.

March 2025, Cambridge, Massachusetts 

Our image "Navigating the Matrix: A 3D Microscale Look at Cell Adhesion and Migration" was selected as a winner of the 2025 Koch Institute Image Awards.