This IRG investigates emergent quantum phenomena in engineered oxide and van der Waals heterostructures. Research focuses on designing ferroic and multiferroic interfaces, engineering topological spin textures and tunable altermagnetic states, and controlling defects and polar phase boundaries to establish structure-property relationships that enable emergent functionalities for programmable memristive devices, neuromorphic computing, logic-in-memory architectures, and scalable spintronic technologies.