Ms Kezia Hsu

Dr Yi-Ya Hsu recently completed her degree in the School of Built Environment. She studied the City of Sydney's 3D floor-use dynamics and their spatial interactions with social, economic, and environmental urban attributes to explore the volumetric urbanism of today's cities. By applying machine learning, agent-based modelling, and voxel automata, her research mapped the suitability of locations for different urban functions. Building on the macro-systematic understanding, she also conducted a survey of city workers to explore the role of the city as a place to work from a bottom-up, micro perspective.

Prior to joining UNSW in May 2022, she worked as a Senior Project Specialist at a GIS tech firm and had 2 years of full-time research assistant experience at National Taiwan Normal University, focusing on environmental migration and indigenous climate resilience. She has a Bachelor's degree in Geography, with a major in Regional and Tourism Planning and Geospatial Information Science. She holds a Master's degree in Urban Planning.

Her recent research focuses on volumetric urbanism, compact cities, mixed-use, spatial modelling, spatiotemporal data analysis, and 3D land-use change, urban resilience, and sustainability. She intends to extend her research further to LLM and AI agent-based modelling, neurourbanism, human-centric AI City and Quantum involvement.