Roshni Sahoo

Roshni Sahoo is assistant professor in the Decision, Risk, and Operations Division at Columbia Business School. She works on data-driven decision making for social impact. Her research develops statistical methodology to address challenges in public health and economic development, combining tools from machine learning, causal inference, and optimization. Her work has appeared in leading operations research journals (such as Operations Research) and machine learning conferences (such as NeurIPS and ICLR), and has been featured by media outlets including The Economist and Vox.

Roshni completed her PhD in Computer Science at Stanford University in 2026. She also received Bachelor of Science degrees in Computer Science and Mathematics at MIT in 2020.