Dr. Sara Al-Sayed is a member of the inaugural cohort of the Andrew Carnegie AI-Nuclear Policy Accelerator. 

Dr. Sara Al-Sayed is a Kendall Fellow at the Global Security Program, Union of Concerned Scientists. Her work focuses on the impact of the fusion of ML/AI with satellite remote sensing on nuclear stability, particularly on the prospects for states to pursue nuclear arms control that is based in and promotes trust. Before joining UCS, she was Postdoctoral Research Associate at Princeton University’s Program on Science and Global Security. She received her B.Sc. degree from the German University in Cairo, Egypt, M.Sc. degree from Universität Ulm, Germany, and Ph.D. degree from Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany – all in communications engineering. She also holds an M.A. in philosophy of technology from Technische Universität Darmstadt, where her thesis, which won the first-place IANUS 2024 Award, theorizes the relationship between contemporary civil-society nuclear-activity monitoring and the entrenchment of the nuclear order. She is a member of the Scientific Network of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, UNIDIR’s Science & Technology Watchtower Nuclear Expert Network, and the Advisory Board of BASIC’s Emerging Voices Network.