Assoc Prof Sang Ho Yun

Director at Earth Observatory of Singapore – Remote Sensing Lab

Speaker

Sang-Ho Yun has supported over 200 major disaster response efforts globally over the past 15 years, using satellite Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) data. He is the Director of the Earth Observatory of Singapore – Remote Sensing Lab (EOS-RS) and an Associate Professor at the Asian School of the Environment (ASE) and the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering (EEE) at Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in Singapore. Prior to joining NTU in 2021, he was a geophysicist and radar scientist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) for 14 years. Sang-Ho received the 2018 NASA Exceptional Public Achievement Medal and the 2014 NASA Exceptional Early Career Medal for his innovative use of satellite SAR data in support of rapid post-disaster response. He holds a PhD in Geophysics and an MS in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University, and a BS in Earth and Environmental Sciences from Seoul National University.