# Abdusalam Abubakar (Cabdisalaan Abuubakar)

> Abdusalam Abubakar: Somali-born Irish winner of the 2007 Young Scientist of the Year with a cryptography project.

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## Who is he?

Abdusalam Abubakar is a Somali-born Irish scientist from Dublin, born in 1989 or 1990 ([Wikipedia, Abdusalam Abubakar](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdusalam_Abubakar)). He moved to Ireland in May 2005 and joined Synge Street CBS in central Dublin (same source). See [Somalis in Ireland](/en/diaspora/ireland/).

## Young Scientist of the Year

On 12 January 2007 he won the 43rd Young Scientist and Technology Exhibition at the RDS in Dublin with a project titled "An Extension of Wiener's Attack on RSA", on cryptography ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdusalam_Abubakar)). He said afterwards that he had never used a computer before arriving in Ireland twenty months earlier (same source). In September 2007 he represented Ireland at the EU Contest for Young Scientists in Valencia and won first prize in mathematics (same source).

He went on to study financial mathematics at Dublin City University (same source).

## In short

A Somali-born Dublin student who won Ireland's top young scientist prize in 2007 with a cryptography project.

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