Woojin Jung
Associate Professor
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolWoojin Jung is an assistant professor and data scientist who applies AI and machine learning to measure and mitigate global poverty, specializing in multimodal approaches that fuse satellite imagery, social media, and connectivity data. With a decade of experience and a PhD from UC Berkeley plus an MPP from Harvard, she builds high-resolution poverty maps and data infrastructure that directly inform social safety nets, including Zambia’s Food Security Pack. Her work bridges methodological innovation and policy impact—optimizing resource targeting and interpolating sparse spatial data to address climate-induced vulnerability in sub-Saharan Africa and Southeast Asia. Funded by the NSF and Microsoft and winner of the SSWR Best Dissertation Award, she uniquely combines rigorous interdisciplinary publication with practical program implementation.
10 years of coding experience
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD at University of California, BerkeleyMPP, MPP at Harvard University
Github Skills (14)
yup8
lit6
vue6
react6
zod5
angular5
js5
naver5
typesafe5
tanstack3
state-management3
nx-workspace3
cordova3
oauth-client2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
cheong38/blog
Aug 2020 - Feb 2021
Contributions:26 commits, 22 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
cheong38/cheong38.github.io
Aug 2020 - Feb 2021
Contributions:20 commits, 28 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
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