Meet the Team
Albert Tonghoon Han, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Urban and Environmental Planning
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, College of Engineering
Graduate School of Green Growth and Sustainability
Graduate School of Data Science
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
Graduate School of Green Growth and Sustainability
Graduate School of Data Science
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
Dr. Albert Tonghoon Han’s research and teaching backgrounds encompass the fields of land use, urban growth management, environmental planning, and data mining for planning practice and research. Dr. Han’s research was published in top-tier academic journals including the Journal of the American Planning Association, the Journal of Planning Education and Research, the Journal of Planning Literature, and Land Use Policy.
Prior to joining the faculty of KAIST, Dr. Han was an Assistant Professor of Urban and Regional Planning at the University of Texas at San Antonio, and a postdoctoral research fellow and a lecturer at the University of Calgary in Canada. Dr. Han holds a Ph.D. in City and Regional Planning from the University of Pennsylvania, an M.S. in Urban and Regional Planning from the University of Iowa, and a B.S. in Life Science and Biotechnology from Korea University.
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Meet the Team
Our lab members consist of bright undergraduate and graduate students of the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST).
Ph.D. Students
Heesoo Kim
Ph.D. Student in
Civil and Environmental Engineering
(Founding Member of PLaSC2)
Research Interests:
Smart City
Climate Change
Ph.D. Student in
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Research Interests:
Clean energy
Climate change mitigation
Socioeconomic impact
M.S. Students
M.S. Student in
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Research Interests:
Policy and land use
Spatial injustice
Sprawl and displacement
Chansol Oh
M.S. Student in
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Research Interests:
Climate change
Smart city
Jungyoon Seol
M.S. Student in
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Research Interests:
Climate change planning
Urban planning
Hyeonjin Lim
M.S. Student in
Green Growth and Sustainability
Research Interests:
Climate change
Urban resilience
Yeahyoung Jeon
M.S. Student in
Data Science
Research Interests:
Data mining for planning policy evaluation
Humanitarian data
Sustainable development
Jiyeong Nam
M.S Student in
Green Growth and Sustainability
Research Interests:
Urban planning
Environmental justice
Climate change mitigation
M.S Student in
Civil and Environmental Engineering
(Founding Member of PLaSC2)
Research Interests:
Renewable Energy Transition
SDGs for Environment
Climate Change Mitigation
Undergraduate Students
Undergraduate Student in
Civil and Environmental Engineering
(Founding Member of PLaSC2)
Research Interests:
Climate adaptation
Urban data analytics
Chaerin Kim
Undergraduate Student in
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Research Interests:
Urban planning
Social inequality
Data analytics
Heeju Jung
Undergraduate Student in
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Research Interests:
Climate change
Environmental justice
Anna Joya
Undergraduate Student in
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Research Interests:
Sustainable Development
Climate Justice
Join PLaSC2
Please contact the director at albert.han(at)kaist(dot)ac(dot)kr to inquire about opportunities at PLaSC2.
For information on admissions, please visit https://civil.kaist.ac.kr/pages/sub/sub04_01.