Jeasurk Yang

Jeasurk Yang is a post-doctoral researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Security and Privacy (MPI-SP) in Bochum, Germany, specializing in Development Geography. He holds a PhD in Geography from the National University of Singapore (2024). His work focuses on urban poverty dynamics and slum monitoring using satellite imagery and machine learning. Currently leading the SegSlum project with collaborators from NUS and KAIST, he investigates slum populations across nine countries to support UN Sustainable Development Goal 11.

Research Interests:

• Urban poverty and slum dynamics in developing regions
• Applications of AI in satellite imagery analysis
• Climate risk assessment in coastal cities
• Waste management systems in informal settlements

Key Projects:

• SegSlum Project: Slum population monitoring system
• Human-Machine Collaboration in Development Economics
• Satellite-Based Climate Vulnerability Modeling

Laboratory Affiliation: Member of the Data Science for Humanity Group at MPI-SP.