Hey, I'm Chaeyeon Han

Chaeyeon ("Che-Yon") Han is a doctoral student at the Georgia Tech School of City and Regional Planning. She is a graduate research assistant at the Center for Urban Resilience and Analytics. She earned a Master’s degree in Urban Planning (2022) from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and a B.S.E. in Computer Science and Engineering (2020) from Yonsei University, South Korea.

Research Interests: Urban/Geo AI, Urban Data Science, Urban Analytics, Data Visualization, CyberGIS, Human Mobility Analytics, Disaster Resilience, Climate Displacement and Migration, and VR/AR (Virtual Reality/Augmented Reality) applications.

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✉️ chan303@gatech.edu

Research Projects

🌊 Destination Choices during Hurricane Milton

Investigated mobility patterns and destination choice mechanisms during hurricane

Paper under view (preprint)

Climate Displacement Mobile GPS Social Ties

🚶‍♂️ Pedestrian Flow Prediction Using Audio and Video

Experimenting the usefulness of audio and video-based pedestrian detection data on predicting future pedestrian flows.

Publication

Urban Sensing Computer Vision

💡 Teleworking and Residential Energy Use

Empirical assessment of the relationship between teleworking frequency and residential energy use in the U.S., using multilevel modeling and time use comparisons

Publication

Teleworking Sustainability

📄 Plan Evaluation using ChatGPT

Publication under review

LLM Plan Evaluation

🍝 Aesthetic Places, Streetscapes, and Place Satisfaction

Assessed of indoor aesthetics and streetscape safety using computer vision models. Finds if streetscapes still matter in car-dependent neighborhoods.

Publication

Computer Vision Urban Design

🍁 Can Thanksgiving Destinations Predict Climate Migration Patterns?

Compared post-hurricane relocation destination choices and thanksgiving holiday travel patterns in the US, using anonymized mobile GPS data.

Publication

Social Ties Climate Displacement Human Mobility

🏡 Mental Health and Built Environment

Mediation Analysis showing relationship betwteen walkability and mental health outcomes,

Publication

Built Environment Mental Health COVID-19 Human Mobility

😷 A CyberGIS-enabled Pandemic Warning System Using Social Media Data

Participated in creating a CyberGIS-based geovisualization tool especially useful for showing spatiotemporal dynamics in infectious disease datasets.

Project Website Publication

COVID-19 CyberGIS Social Media Human Mobility

Teaching

2021-2022
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Spring 22 Graduate Teaching Assistant: NRES100 Fundamentals of Environmental Science (Virtual)
Fall 21 Graduate Teaching Assistant: UP510-DA Plan Making

2020-2021 (Based on R)
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Spring 21 Graduate Teaching Assistant: UP460 Urban Transportation Modeling
Fall 20 Graduate Teaching Assistant: UP494 Advanced Data Science for Planners
Fall 20 Graduate Teaching Assistant: UP199 Data Science for Planners

2020 (Based on Python)
Yonsei University

Winter & Spring 20 Teaching Assistant: YCS1001 Computational Thinking and SW Programming