Spread the word At just 25, Dr. Faisal Adamu Hamman has joined a rare class of young scientists shaping the future of artificial intelligence. Fresh from earning a doctorate in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Maryland, the Adamawa-born researcher is tackling one of the most urgent questions in modern technology: Can we trust AI? Behind the global recognition, however, lies a deeply personal story that began far from American research laboratories, in Abuja, Nigeria’s federal capital territory, where Faisal lived with his parents until he left Nigeria for further studies. “We noticed his special gift early,” Faisal’s parents, Adamu Hamman and Aisha Adamu Hamman, both engineers, told this newspaper in an interview. “He consistently won awards in Mathematics, Furt...