About
Rufai Balogun is a doctoral researcher at the Graduate School of Geography at Clark University, where his research focuses on evaluating the interpretability and reliability of large Earth models for real-world applications. He was previously a Humanitarian AI/EO Fellow with NASA Lifelines, where he co-authored the Geo-AI for Humanitarian Action report and supported initiatives such as the Ready for Impact Challenge. More recently, he served as a Data Fellow with the Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery (GFDRR) at the World Bank Group, providing urban analytics to support infrastructure planning, disaster risk assessment, and exposure modelling. Prior to this, Rufai worked as an Earth observation data scientist at EURAC Research, Italy, and the Christian Doppler Laboratory for Geospatial and EO-Based Humanitarian Technologies (CDL-GEOHUM), Austria.
