As a teacher and researcher in Pakistan's public sector, I stand at a crucial intersection where science, policy and sustainable enterprise converge. In lecture halls and research labs across the country, a pressing question arises: how do we prepare the next generation of physicists and engineers not just to understand the world, but to transform it?

The global shift toward intelligent automation and energy transition has redefined the future of enterprise. For Pakistan, this transformation is not just technological, but a developmental imperative. With rising energy challenges, economic constraints and a growing youth population, we must realign our education and research systems to foster scalable, data-driven and socially responsive innovation.

In my work supervising research in renewable energy and energy economics, I see immense potential in integrating agentic artificial intelligence — AI systems capable of autonomous decision-making — into our energy landscape. These tools can forecast demand,........

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