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Professor Hoon Han

Professor Hoon Han

Professor

PhD (UQ); MPlan (UQ);  BArch

Arts, Design & Architecture
School of Built Environment
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 specifical...
E-mail
h.han@unsw.edu.au
Location
Red Centre West Wing, Room 2006

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

 
 
The impacts of his research contributions are recongnised by the following national and international awards:
 

  • 2020 Winner of Cutting Edge Research and Teaching: City Futures Research Centre - UNSW, QUT Design Lab, Omnilink and FrontierSI for The Rapid Analytics Interactive Scenario Explorer (RAISE) Toolkit

  • The Best Industry-Led Smart City Awards 2017 (Team Awards led by Prof Chris Pettit) by the Committee for Sydney
  • 2017 Winner of the Smart City Service Awards 2017 in the World Smart City Week (WSCW), Seoul, Korea 2017 (nominated by the DFAT Australian Embassy, Seoul)
  • 2016 Dean’s Research Excellence Award, Faculty of Built Environment, UNSW
  • 2015 The Best Paper Award, Knowledge City World Summit, Daegu, Korea
  • 2014 international academic award for a significant contribution by Korea Planner Association
  • 2010 award for the inaugural vice chancellor’s research excellence (healthy city project), Griffith University.
  • 2008 winner of a best conference paper of the Australia and New Zealand Regional Science Association International (ANZRSAI) conference at Adelaide in 2008.
  • 2004 award for best published paper of the year in Housing Studies Review Journal.

Please refer to the list of the recent publications 

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