Dr. Tongping Hao
Post-doctoral Fellow, Department of Urban Planning and Design
Dr Tongping Hao is now a Post-doctoral Fellow in the Department of Urban Planning and Design at the University of Hong Kong. Her research expertise lies in urban simulation at the neighborhood and street scale, design optimization and urban data analytics. She is working on research projects concerning modeling urban microclimate, optimizing heat-resilient design, and investigating human behavior under thermal variations. She has developed a simulation-based design optimization framework and utilized machine learning algorithms in order to enhance the integration of digital technologies in support of planning and design decisions with urban cooling as a goal.
Tongping is a certified planner in China, a BEAM professional, LEED & WELL accredited professional. Before her PhD, Tongping was a green building engineer in Hong Kong and consulted sustainable environmental design projects in the Great Bay Area, collaborating with international design companies, developers, and government institutes.
Teaching and Research Experience
Tutor, CCGL9026 Think Global, Act Local: You, Hong Kong, and the World, 2019-2020;
Tutor, CCGL9026 Think Global, Act Local: You, Hong Kong, and the World, 2020-2021;
Teacher, MUDP1020 Urban Design Technology and Innovations, 2020-2021;
Teacher, MUDP1020 Urban Design Technology and Innovations, 2021-2022;
Teacher, HIT Computational Design Workshop 2020, Simulation of Environment for Urban Studies
Teacher, URA Computer Simulation for Urban Renewal Authority’s Project/Studies, 2019 & 2020
Key Publications
Hao, T., Chang, H., Liang, S., Jones, P., Chan, P. W., Li, L., & Huang, J. (2023). Heat and park attendance: Evidence from “small data” and “big data” in Hong Kong. Building and Environment, 110123. https://doi.org/10.1016/J.BUILDENV.2023.110123
Hao, T., Huang, J., He, X., Li, L., and Jones, P. (2022) ‘A machine learning-enhanced design optimizer for urban cooling’, Indoor and Built Environment, 32(2), available: https://doi.org/10.1177/1420326X221112857.
Huang, J., Hao, T., Wang, Y., and Jones, P. (2022) ‘A Street-Scale Simulation Model for the Cooling Performance of Urban Greenery: Evidence from a High-Density City’, Sustainable Cities and Society, 82, 103908, available: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scs.2022.103908.
Huang, J., Hao, T., Liu, X., Jones, P., Ou, C., Liang, W., and Liu, F. (2022) ‘Airborne transmission of the Delta variant of SARS-CoV-2 in an auditorium’, Building and Environment, 219, 109212, available: https://doi.org/10.1016/J.BUILDENV.2022.109212.
Huang, J., Chen, Y., Jones, P., and Hao, T. (2020) ‘Heat stress and outdoor activities in open spaces of public housing estates in Hong Kong: A perspective of the elderly community’, Indoor and Built Environment, 31(6), available: https://doi.org/10.1177/1420326X20950448.