Hoon Han is a Professor of City Planning and the Director of the Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute-UNSW Centre. Prior to joining UNSW in January 2011, he held teaching and researching positions at Griffith University (2009-2011) and the University of Queensland (2004-2009), where he completed his PhD program (2004). His research primarily focuses on Urban AI, smart cities, and real estate using machine learning, spatial modelling and multivariate data analysis. More specifically, his research contributes to the theories of smart cities which can be systematically tested, explored, and implemented with the application of urban AI tools.
Prof Han has actively disseminated his research through various outlets. His body of work encompasses more than 100 publications, including scholarly books, book chapters and journal papers.
My Grants
Chief Investigator (External Competitive):
2018 cfip 3d virtual prototyping system RESEARCH INFRASTRUCTURE SCHEME (RIS)
2017 Review and Improvement of Composition Adjusted Methodology in Calculation of City-Wide Median House Price in Australia
2016 Rapid Analytics Interactive Scenario Explorer, CRC-Spatial Information
2016 A knowledge exchange network for Australian and Indian smart cities, AUSTRALIA-INDIA COUNCIL GRANTS PROGRAM, Department of Foreign Affairs And Trade, Australian Government
2015 Open innovation workshop for Korea-Australia smart cities service trade, AUSTRALIA-KOREA FOUNDATION GRANTS PROGRAM, Department of Foreign Affairs And Trade, Australian Government
2015 Human interaction and perceptions to/with media facade in Australia, INTERNATIONAL CONTRACT
My Qualifications
PhD (UQ); MPlan (UQ); BArch
My Awards
The impacts of his research contributions are recongnised by the following national and international awards:
My Research Activities
Please refer to the list of the recent publications
My Research Supervision
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My Engagement
Memberships
- Editorial Board Member of Housing Studies, Taylor & Francis
- Managing Editor of Journal of Spatial Information Research, Springer
- PlA PlanTech National Working Group
- Academic Committee of the NSW State Government Smart City Strategy
- Vice President of the Korea-Australia Science Engineering Association
- Member of Planning Institute of Australia
My Teaching
Dr Han teaches the core subjects in the planning and urban development program: City and Regional Economics (PLAN1004), Economics of Planning and Development (PLAN2111) and Quantitative Research Methods (PLAN1052) at an undergraduate level, and City Economics, Urban Development & Finance (PLAN7146) to postgraduates.
Current PhD supervision:
Ms Xueying Xiong (Main supervision): A Theoretical Foundation for Senior Housing Developers: Where Do Eldery Move After Retirement
Mr Sarbeswar Prahraj (Main supervision): Enabling Smrt City transformations in emerging econoes: India's 100 Smart Cities Mission
Ms Jamie Wang (Main supervision): Housing Pathways for Young Middle Class China
Ms Vivien Shi (Joint supervision): Incorporating The Safe System And Sociodemographics Into The Built Environment Model of Traffic Safety
Mr Ji Yu (Co-supervision): Planning for sustainable land use in Sydney using GIS-based modeling
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