by Dr Faizan Ur Rehman | Aug 14, 2026 | Artificial Intelligence
What separates the best AI researchers from the merely good ones? It is rarely raw mathematical talent alone. Looking across the field — and across a research career spanning 50+ publications and multiple patents — the pattern is consistent: the...
by Dr Faizan Ur Rehman | Aug 14, 2026 | Artificial Intelligence
Bringing hundreds of thousands of people together in one place — a stadium, a festival, a transport hub, a pilgrimage — is one of the hardest coordination problems there is. Small imbalances in flow can compound quickly, and the margin for error is thin....
by Dr Faizan Ur Rehman | Aug 14, 2026 | Artificial Intelligence
Every organisation now wants to “do AI.” The tools are increasingly accessible, the models are impressive, and the ambition is real. Yet the single biggest constraint on adopting AI is rarely the technology — it is people. Building AI talent at scale...
by Dr Faizan Ur Rehman | Aug 14, 2026 | Artificial Intelligence, Emerging Technology
Artificial intelligence has advanced on the back of one simple trend: more compute, more data, bigger models. That trajectory has been remarkably productive — but it is also running into physical and economic limits. This is why quantum computing has moved from...
by Dr Faizan Ur Rehman | Aug 8, 2026 | AI Capability Building
Saudi Arabia is running one of the world’s most ambitious efforts to build artificial intelligence capability at national scale — training people in AI by the million, credentialing professionals against rigorous standards, and building the platforms that...