Siddiq Qidwai

Siddiq Qidwai is a Section Head of one of the two Civil, Mechanical and Manufacturing Innovation Sections in the Directorate for Engineering at the US National Science Foundation (NSF). Before joining NSF, he was a Section Head (acting) in the Materials Science & Technology Division of the US Naval Research Laboratory. Qidwai received his PhD in aerospace engineering from Texas A&M University. He is a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) and US National Association for Computational Mechanics (USACM). At NSF, Qidwai is a member of a Foundation-wide team that is working on the Future of Intelligence Frontier Initiative in response to the Office of Science and Technology Policy’s report on Science, A New Golden Age. This initiative acknowledges the disruptive impact of Super Intelligence on both research and education, the twin cardinal aspects of NSF's mission, and the need to immediately start working on the next transformative way forward.