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The Columbia University Materials Research Science and Engineering Center (MRSEC) for Advanced Electronic Materials (AEM) united scientists and engineers to pioneer research in semiconductor technologies, quantum materials, optoelectronic materials, and energy transport. AEM develops innovative materials to drive new scientific discoveries and advance next-generation semiconductor and quantum technologies through two IRGs. IRG1 advances a novel materials platform for next-generation information systems using coherent charge-neutral excitations in van der Waals (vdW) semiconductors for ultralow-loss interconnects, enabling a paradigm shift toward ultralow-power information platforms and technologies. IRG2 creates non-equilibrium quantum metamaterials by co-designing materials platforms (vdW heterostructures, misfit superlattices, molecular crystals) and their engineered electromagnetic (EM environments to manipulate electronic, structural, and topical degrees of freedom beyond equilibrium limits, enabling the design, realization and reconfiguration of quantum matter far from equilibrium. AEM's research efforts are amplified by deep collaborations with CCNY, the Flatiron Institute, Brookhaven National Laboratory, and the Max Planck Institutes in Mainz and Hamburg. Alongside its research on coherent information flow and quantum matter, AEM is committed to educational outreach to achieve workforce development in STEM--especially in Materials Science and Engineering--across the U.S., and to increase participation in STEM at all levels.