FROM ANGSTROM
TO EMBASSY (A2E)

Dr. Saquib Ahmed is a nanophysicist whose expertise spans the full arc of technology development — from quantum-scale materials physics through device design, process integration, and manufacturing. Before entering academia, he spent close to a decade as a senior R&D engineer at Intel Corporation, developing a working knowledge of how atomic-scale discoveries become manufactured products. He is a tenured Associate Professor of Engineering Technology at SUNY Buffalo State University, founder of the Center for Integrated Studies in Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (CISNN), and served four years as a Visiting Faculty at the Department of Energy. He is a Senior Fellow at the US Manufacturing Innovation Council.

His research program — Angstrom to Embassy — applies density functional theory, machine learning, and ab initio molecular dynamics across multiple frontier domains: energy (perovskite PV phenomena and devices, sodium and magnesium-ion battery kinetics), semiconductors, quantum materials (probing phenomena such as valleytronics), and optoelectronics. The program’s name captures its intent: connecting discoveries at the atomic scale to the policy and market decisions that determine whether those discoveries reach the world.