Dr. Sahara Ali

Dr. Sahara Ali directs the Data-Driven Decisions Lab in the Anuradha and Vikas Sinha Department of Data Science, College of AI and Advanced Analytics, at the University of North Texas. She holds a PhD and MS in Information Systems from the University of Maryland, and a BSc in Computer Science from the University of Engineering & Technology, Lahore. Her research centers on causal machine learning, spatiotemporal data mining, and Earth informatics, with a focus on Arctic sea ice forecasting and climate systems. She currently leads the NSF-funded project Causality-at-Scale for Polar Regions.