Muhammad Ashraful Alam has made fundamental contributions to the physics and technology of a remarkable range of classical and emerging electronic devices, including the reliability of nanoscale logic and power transistors, sensitivity limits of biosensors, percolative transport in flexible electronics, atom-to-farm modeling of solar cells. He is known for his ability to connect deep, fundamental science to important practical problems. His research approach is informed by the simple belief that “The problem has to be timely, but the solution timeless.”