Quan, Steven Jige

• 2022
  M.S. in Computer Science (Specialization: Machine Learning), College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology
• 2016
  Ph.D. in City and Regional Planning (Major: Urban Design, Minor: Urban Metabolism), School of City & Regional Planning, Georgia Institute of Technology
• 2005
  M.E. in Urban Planning, Department of Urban Planning, Tsinghua University, China
• 2002
  B.Arch. (Five-year), Department of Architecture, Tsinghua University, China

• 2026-present
  Professor, Department of Urban Planning, Seoul National University, South Korea
• 2021-2026
  Associate Professor, Department of Urban Planning, Seoul National University, South Korea
• 2020-2022
  Affiliated Faculty, Artificial Intelligence Institute, Seoul National University, South Korea
• 2017-2021
  Assistant Professor, Department of Environmental Planning, Seoul National University, South Korea
• 2017-present
  Founder & Director, City Energy Lab, Graduate School of Environmental Studies, Seoul National University, South Korea
• 2016 - 2017
  Postdoctoral Fellow & Lecturer, Department of City & Regional Planning, Georgia Institute of Technology
• 2016 - 2017
  Assistant Director, Sino-US Eco Urban Lab, Georgia Institute of Technology and Tongji University
• 2010 - 2011
  Chief Planner and Designer (Part-time), Center of Urban Planning and Design, United Architect & Engineers CO., Ltd, China
• 2009
  Chief Planner, No. 3 Department of Comprehensive Planning, Beijing Tsinghua Urban Planning & Design Institute, China
• 2005 - 2008
  Assistant Project Manager and Planner, Department of Comprehensive Planning, Beijing Tsinghua Urban Planning & Design Institute, China

Associate Editor, ACM Transactions on Social Computing. 2025-present. (Scopus journal)

Editorial Board, Journal of Planning Education and Research. 2024 – present. (SSCI journal)

Editorial Panel (Associate Editor), Municipal Engineer. 2022 – present. (SCI journal)

Editorial Board, Environmental Policy and Administration. 2023 – present. (KCI journal)

Editorial Board, Regional Studies. 2022 – present. (KCI journal)

Guest Editor, Special Issue Quantum Computing and the City, Cities. 2026-present. (SSCI journal)

Guest Editor, Special Issue Paradigm Shift in Human-Urban-Building Interactions in Smart Cities, Sustainable Cities and Society. 2022 – 2024. (SCI journal)

2026      Major Organizer, the 2nd Workshop on AI for Urban Planning, the 40th Annual AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Singapore, January 26.

2025      Technical Program Committee Member, the 6th International Conference on Social Computing (ICSC 2025), Shanghai, China, December 12-13.

2025      Organizing Committee, AI and Cities: An International Forum for Innovation and Collaboration, online, May 9-10.

2025      Major Organizer, the 1st Workshop on AI for Urban Planning, the 39th Annual AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Philadelphia, U.S., March 3.

2021      Vice Chair, the 16th Annual Conference of International Association for China Planning (IACP), Nanjing, China/Virtual, September 11-13.

2020      Vice Chair, the 15th Annual Conference of International Association for China Planning (IACP), Shenzhen, China/Virtual, December 5-13.

Member of Board of Directors, Korean Regional Science Association (KRSA), 2019-present

Chair, Chester Rapkin Best Paper Committee, Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning (ACSP), 2025

Chair, Karen R. Polenske Best Student Paper Award Selection Committee, Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning (ACSP), 2021-2022

Chair, Award Committee, International Association for China Planning (IACP), 2021-2023

Member of Board of Directors, International Association for China Planning (IACP), 2019-2023

Executive Director, Korea Environmental Policy and Administration Society (KEPAS), 2022-2023

Committee Member, Seoul National University International Faculty Association, 2023-2025

Advisory Committee Member, Seoul National University International Affairs Committee, 2019-2021, 2025-2027

PI, AI-aided and Data-driven Design (AIDD): Integrating AI and Urban Big Data into City Design for Sustainable Urban Future. Young Scientist (Outstanding) Grant, National Research Fund, the Ministry of Science and ICT, South Korea, 2022-present

Co-PI, Development and Application of Indicators for Smart Inclusive Transition (SIT) in Asian Cities: SIT Diagnosis of Declining and Growing Cities in East Asia and Strategies for Expansion to Other Asian Cities, Seoul National University Asia Center, 2025-present

Co-PI, SNU for graduate research and education advancing tomorrow, BK21 FOUR (Fostering Outstanding Universities for Research), National Research Foundation, the Ministry of Education, South Korea, 2020-present

PI, AI aided design (AAD): Smart Design for sustainable urban design and planning, Creative Pioneering Researcher Fund (Step 2), 2021-2024

PI, Linking Energy and Urbanization – A Triangular Approach in South Asia, Southeast Asia, and West Asia, Seoul National University Asia Center, 2021 – 2022

PI, AI aided design (AAD): Smart Design for sustainable urban design and planning, Creative Pioneering Researcher Fund (Step 1), 2018-2021

PI, A novel design method for energy efficient neighborhood design – A design process oriented method with the adaptive energy simulation modeling and the dynamic energy range system, National Research Fund, the Ministry of Science and ICT, South Korea, 2018 – 2021

• Peer Reviewed Journal Articles

Lee, S. J., Cho, Y., Yang, R. Y. & Quan, S. J. From pixels to policy: Multi-scale flood susceptibility mapping using interpretable machine learning for urban resilience. Land Use Policy 164. 107950. 2026.

Marasinghe, R., Yigitcanlar, T., Fu, X. & Quan, S. J. Augmenting urban planning with computer vision: A review of the state-of-the-art. Sustainable Cities and Society 138. 107209. 2026.

Quan, S. J.* Artificial Intelligence-Aided and Data-Driven Design (AIDD) for Participatory Urban Design Computation. Journal of Planning Education and Research. 0739456X251403122. 2026.

Li, J., Li, C., Quan, S. J. & Liang, Y. Deciphering urban land use: A typological analysis of built form across 105 urban areas in the US using representation learning. Land Use Policy 161. 107878. 2026.

Chen, W., Pan, J., Quan, S. J., Wei, H. & Wang, W. Scalable impact of urban green infrastructure on urban climate: A critical review. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews 226. Part A, 116259. 2026.

Li, N., Bansal, P. & Quan, S. J.* Thermal performance-based urban climate zone mapping through multivariate time series clustering: A case study of Seoul. Sustainable Cities and Society 135, 107026. 2025.

Wei, H., Bai, X., Lu, Q., Wu, J., Su, F., Hong, T., Hu, Q., Wang, W.*, Quan, S. J.*, Luo, Z. & Han, Y. Urban cooling and energy-saving effects of nature-based solutions across types and scales. Nature Cities 2. 1194–1204. 2025.

Fu X., Li, C., Quan, S. J., Yigitcanlar, T. & Wasserman, T. Large language models in urban planning. Nature Cities 2. 585–592. 2025.

Quan, S. J., Xue, Y. & Li, C. Nonlinearity in the relationships between urban form and residential energy use intensity. Applied Energy 383. 125344. 2025.

Quan, S. J.* & Lee, S. Enhancing participatory planning with ChatGPT-assisted planning support systems: a hypothetical case study in Seoul. International Journal of Urban Sciences 29. 89-122. 2025.

Quan, S. J.* Comparing hyperparameter tuning methods in machine learning based urban building energy modeling: A study in Chicago. Energy and Buildings 317. 114353. 2024.

Li, N. & Quan, S. J.* Discovering urban block typologies in Seoul: Combining planning knowledge and unsupervised machine learning. Cities 150, 104988. 2024.

Wu, Y. & Quan, S. J.* A review of surrogate-assisted design optimization for improving urban wind environment. Building and Environment 253. 111157. 2024.

Bansal, P. & Quan, S. J.* Examining behavioral aspect of urban context effect on residential building energy use in Seoul – linking urban walkability to energy. Building and Environment 252. 111179. 2024.

Bansal, P. & Quan, S. J.* Examining temporally varying nonlinear effects of urban form on urban heat island using explainable machine learning: A case of Seoul. Building and Environment 247, 110957. 2024.

Quan, S. J.* & Kim, K. Did new electricity progressive tariff system change energy usage pattern in Seoul apartments? Evidence from integrated multisource dataset and combined analytical models. Energy and Buildings 287, 112979. 2023.

Li, N. & Quan, S. J.* Identifying urban form typologies in Seoul using a new Gaussian mixture model-based clustering framework. Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science 50(9), 2342–2358. 2023.

Quan, S. J.* Urban-GAN: An artificial intelligence-aided computation system for plural urban design. Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science 49(9), 2500-2515. 2022.

Bansal, P. & Quan, S. J.* Relationships between building characteristics, urban form and building energy use in different local climate zone contexts: An empirical study in Seoul. Energy and Buildings 272, 112335. 2022.

Quan, S. J., Chang, S., Castro-Lacouture, D., Igou, T. K., Dutt, F., Ding, J., Chen, Y., Yang, P. P. Planning decentralized urban renewable energy systems using algal cultivation for closed-loop and resilient communities. Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science 49(5), 1464–1488. 2022.

Wu, Y., Zhan, Q., & Quan, S. J. Improving local pedestrian-level wind environment based on probabilistic assessment using Gaussian process regression. Building and Environment 205, 108172. 2021.

Wu, Y., Zhan, Q., & Quan, S. J. A robust metamodel-based optimization design method for improving pedestrian wind comfort in an infill development project. Sustainable Cities and Society 72, 103018. 2021.

Quan, S. J.* & Bansal, P. A systematic review of GIS-based local climate zone mapping studies. Building and Environment 196, 107791. 2021.

Wu, Y., Zhan, Q., Quan, S. J., Fan, Y., & Yang, Y. A surrogate-assisted optimization framework for microclimate-sensitive urban design practice. Building and Environment 195, 107661. 2021.

Quan, S. J.* & Li, C. Urban form and building energy use: A systematic review of measures, mechanisms, and methodologies. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews 139, 110662. 2021.

Quan, S. J., Economou, A., Grasl, T. & Yang, P. P. An exploration of the relationship between density and building energy performance. Urban Design International 25(1), 92-112. 2020.

Quan, S. J.*, Park, J., Economou, A., & Lee, S. Artificial intelligence-aided design: Smart Design for sustainable city development. Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science 46(8), 1581-1599. 2019.

Quan, S. J.* Smart design for sustainable neighborhood development. Energy Procedia 158, 6515-6520. 2019.

Yang, P. P., Quan, S. J., Castro-Lacouture, D., Rudolph, C., & Stuart, B. A Geodesign model for managing a closed-loop urban system through algae cultivation. Applied Energy 231. 1372-1382. 2018.

Yang, P. P., Chi, C. S., Wu, Y., & Quan, S. J. A Geodesign method of human-energy-water interactive systems for urban infrastructure design: 10KM² near zero district project in Shanghai. Engineering 4(2), 182-189. 2018.

Quan, S. J.* Energy efficient neighborhood design under residential zoning regulations in Shanghai. Energy Procedia 143, 865-872. 2017.

Quan, S. J., Dutt, F., Woodworth, E., Yamagata, Y. & Yang, P. P. Local climate zone mapping for energy resilience: A fine-grain and 3D approach. Energy Procedia 105, 3777-3783. 2017.

Campana, P. E., Quan, S. J., Robbio, F. I., Lundblad, A., Zhang, Y., Ma, T., Karlsson, B. & Yan, J. Optimization of a residential district with special consideration on energy and water reliability. Applied Energy 194, 751-764. 2017.

Yang, J., Quan, J., Yan, B. & He, C. Urban rail investment and transit-oriented development in Beijing: Can it reach a higher potential? Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice 89, 140-150. 2016.

Li, Z., Quan, S. J. & Yang, P. P. Energy performance simulation for planning a low carbon neighborhood urban district: A case study in the city of Macau. Habitat International 53, 206-214. 2016.

Quan, S. J., Wu, J., Wang, Y., Shi, Z., Yang, T. & Yang, P. P. Urban form and building energy performance in Shanghai neighborhoods. Energy Procedia 88, 126-132. 2016.

Quan, S. J.*, Li, Q., Augenbroe, G., Brown, J. & Yang, P. P. A GIS-based energy balance modeling system for urban solar buildings. Energy Procedia 75, 2946-2952. 2015.

Quan, S. J., Economou, A., Grasl, T., & Yang, P. P. Computing energy performance of building density, shape and typology in urban context. Energy Procedia 61, 1602-1605. 2014.

• Non-Peer Reviewed Journal Articles

Quan, S. J.* Supervised machine learning in urban data analytics. Journal of Environmental Studies 74, 38−57. 2024.

Quan, S. J.* Local Climate Zone: Linking Science and Policy for Urban Environmental Planning and Management. Journal of KGBC (Korea Green Building Council) 24 (1), 39–51. 2023.

• Peer Reviewed Book Chapters

Yang, P. P. & Quan, S. J. Urban form and energy resilient strategies: A cast study of the Manhattan grid. In Y. Yamagata & H. Maruyama (Eds.), Urban Resilience - A Transformative Approach, 153-172. Springer. 2016.

Quan, S. J., Li, Q., Augenbroe, G., Brown, J. & Yang, P. P. Urban data and building energy modeling: A GIS-based urban building energy modeling system using the Urban-EPC engine. In S. Geertman, J. J. Ferreira, R. Goodspeed & J. Stillwell (Eds.), Planning Support Systems and Smart Cities, 447-469. Springer. 2015.

Quan, S. J., Minter, J. D. & Yang, P. P. A GIS-based performance metrics for designing a low energy urban agriculture system. In S. C. M. Geertman (Eds.), Planning Support Systems for Sustainable Urban Development, 225-247. Springer. 2013.