Abstract: Crystalline inorganic materials provide a highly tunable design space for tailoring interactions between electrons and for designing new responses and functionalities for solid-state applications. In particular, quantum materials---compounds where the uniquely quantum aspects of their electrons drive their behaviors---provide a fascinating playground for searching for new electronic states and for testing the predictions of many-body Hamiltonians. One of the most compelling design elements in the field of quantum materials is the concept of frustrated interactions between electrons that can often promote the formation of exotic states. In this talk, I will give an overview of some of these states sought in quantum materials and instantiate via examples where frustration is proposed to create surprising new ground states.