Professor Hoon Han is the Director of the UNSW Cities Institute, a Professor of City Planning, and Associate Director of City Futures Research Centre. He joined UNSW in January 2011, following academic appointments at Griffith University (2009–2011) and the University of Queensland (2004–2009), where he also completed his PhD.
Han’s research focuses on Urban AI, smart cities, and automated real estate analytics, employing advanced methods such as machine learning, spatial modelling, and 3D visualisation. His work contributes to the theoretical and practical advancement of smart city planning and policy, with an emphasis on how urban AI tools can be systematically applied to address real-world urban challenges.
He has published extensively, with over 150 works including scholarly books, book chapters, and peer-reviewed journal articles, and continues to actively disseminate his research through diverse academic and professional platforms.
My Grants
Chief Investigator (External Competitive):
2023 Creating MapGPT – A Large Language Model (LLM) that specialises in geo-spatial operations, Spatial Information Systems Research Contract
2022 Inquiry into projecting Australia’s urban and regional futures; population dynamics, regional mobility, and planning responses, National Housing Research Program (NHRP)
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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