Post by Nadeem Hussain

The world knows Stanford University for sure but it might not have heard about a small village in the outskirts of district Sheikhupura in Punjab, Pakistan. Ahmed Mohsin (center), 24-year-old, hails from Kaloke village that does not have running water, electricity, roads, proper schools, or even mailing address(!) — almost no infrastructure at all. His household monthly income is >1K USD. His mother doesn’t have a college degree. And both his parents have never been outside of Pakistan. Despite all these barriers, Ahmed is the FIRST EVER kid from his hometown who’s made it to a fully funded Ph.D. at Stanford University. He’s a part of an AI lab at the farm and is researching LLM reasoning models. Just in his 2nd year of the doctoral program and he has summer co-op offers from almost every big tech company in the Silicon Valley and beyond. You name Amazon, Meta, Qualcomm, Roblox, Uber, Microsoft, NVIDIA, Mastercard, etc., and their research teams are waiting for Ahmed to join. For me, the young Ahmed is a true trailblazer and a myth buster in so many ways. 📷 with another inspiration from a humble Karachi neighborhood, Bilal Zuberi at Hoover Institution, Stanford University during a Dosti Project conference on April 01, 2026.