Yung Au is a Senior Information Controls Fellow at the School of Geography, University of Oxford and a Board Member of the Surveillance in the Majority World Network. Her research examines the supply chain of surveillance and policing technologies—from the speculative beginnings to the afterlives of such systems. Her project charts out different ways to map and visualize the surveillance/information control supply chain in collaboration with partner organizations situated at different parts of this process. Yung currently also co-leads a project on ‘The Political Economy of Military General-Purpose AI Systems’.

Yung holds a DPhil from Oxford where her thesis examined the colonial commodification of state surveillance by examining the marketplace of data-driven technologies using abolitionist frameworks. She was previously an Academic Tutor at the University of Oxford and an Associate Lecturer at the University of the Arts London