Gay Jane P. Perez is a Filipino physicist and environmental scientist whose research involves satellite observation of environmental conditions, and the applications of that data in agricultural planning.
[3][4] Perez is originally from Naga, Camarines Sur, where she attended a Catholic girls' school.
[2] She went to the US in 2010–2011 for postdoctoral research at the Hydrospheric and Biospheric Sciences Laboratory of the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, working there on remote sensing.
[1][4] In 2022, she was elected to a four-year term as president of the Technical Commission on Education and Outreach of the International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, the first Filipino to lead the commission.
[8] Perez won the 2018 ASEAN-US Science Prize for Women, becoming the first Filipino to do so.