Jae Hong Kim

Professor Jae Hong Kim is an academic at the University of California, Irvine, specializing in Urban Planning and Public Policy. His work bridges land use, economic development, and spatial modeling methodologies.

• Ph.D. from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• Contact: jaehk6@uci.edu | Office: 206E Social Ecology I

Research Interests:
Focuses on local/regional economic development, land use change, institutional environments, and methodological innovations for urban system modeling. His research explores how policies interact with physical and socioeconomic urban dynamics, supported by grants from:

• National Science Foundation
• National Institute of Justice
• University of California Transportation Center
• Hellman Fellows Fund
• UCI Institute of Transportation Studies
• UCI Metropolitan Futures Initiative

Recent Article Trends:
Recent 2024 publications examine urban governance structures, machine learning applications for neighborhood analysis, employment decentralization impacts, and racial diversity dynamics. Earlier works (2023-2022) analyze telecommuting effects, drone policy adoption, and built environment-crime relationships using advanced computational methods.