Hoon Han is a Professor of City Planning and the Director of the Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute-UNSW Centre. Prior to joining the UNSW in January 2011, he held teaching and research positions at Griffith University (2009–2011) and the University of Queensland (2004–2009), where he completed his Ph.D. program (2004). He is also a member of the Planning Institute of Australia and the Vice President of the Korea-Australia Science Engineering Association. He won the Best Industry-Led Smart City Awards 2017 (Team Awards led by Prof. Chris Pettit) awarded by the Committee for Sydney. His research primarily focuses on urban AI, smart cities, and real estate using machine learning, spatial modeling 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.