Yun Sang-Ho

Yun Sang-Ho

Sang-Ho Yun

Sang-Ho

Yun

2023 - 2024

Earth Observatory of Singapore, Nanyang Technological University

South Korea

Director, Earth Observatory of Singapore

SANG-HO YUN is the Director of the Earth Observatory of Singapore – Remote Sensing Lab (EOS-RS) and Associate Professor of the Asian School of the Environment (ASE) and the School of Electric and Electronic Engineering (EEE) at Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in Singapore. He is Co-Investigator of the project CLIMATE CRISIS AND CULTURAL LOSS, and a Principal Investigator on the CLIMATE TRANSFORMATION PROGRAMME leading the cross-cutting theme on satellite remote sensing. To date, he has supported over 150 major disaster response efforts globally. 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 2023 NASA Honor Award for “Proactive development of a world leading,disaster damage-mapping system supplying vital data to a broad range of disaster assessment and relief agencies worldwide.” He was the recipient of the 2018 NASA Exceptional Public Achievement Medal and the 2014 NASA Exceptional Early Career Medal for innovative use of satellite Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) data in support of rapid post-disaster response. He also received JPL’s Voyager Award in 2015 and Mariner Award in 2012 for his outstanding achievements in humanitarian assistance using satellite observations. Prior to his work at NASA JPL, he was a postdoctoral fellow at the US Geological Survey in Menlo Park, California. He received his PhD in geophysics and MS in electrical engineering from Stanford University in California and his BS in earth systemscience from Seoul National University in Korea.