Jaeyoung Ha, Ph.D.

Ph.D., Kansas State University

MLA, Seoul National University

BS in Landscape Architecture, Pusan National University

Burruss Hall (MC0190)
800 Drillfield Drive
Blacksburg, VA 24061
+1.540.231.
jaeyoung@vt.edu

Jaeyoung Ha is an Assistant Professor in Landscape Architecture at Virginia Tech. He studied Environmental Design and Planning in his Ph.D. program at Kansas State University. He holds a master’s degree from Seoul National University in landscape architecture with an urban design concentration and a bachelor’s degree in landscape architecture from Pusan National University. Prior to graduate school, he worked as a landscape architect for Dohwa Engineering, South Korea’s largest engineering design firm. He managed numerous landscape and urban design projects, including urban parks, recreational, commercial, and community development.

His current research focuses on landscape environment and mental well-being using experimental and observational study design. He explores how urban and natural environments enhance the mental well-being of people using immersive 3D visualization technologies, such as AR and VR. In observational study, he investigates how the spatial distribution of urban green space is associated with mental health in metropolitan cities using public health data. In the summer of 2021, he was involved in interdisciplinary health research as a research assistant at the Lee Kum Sheung Center for Health and Happiness at Harvard University.

research areas

• Mental wellbeing: mental health/wellbeing, restorative environments, social and environmental justice
• Regional climate and environment: climate change mitigation, disaster resilience design and planning
• Planning and design: landscape planning and design, urban design, environment-behavior
• Immersive environment: Virtual reality (VR), Augmented reality (AR)
• Ecology: Landscape ecology, Landscape pattern, Biodiversity, Ecological design and planning
• Spatial analysis: Remote sensing, Geographical information system (GIS)
• Big data analysis: Machine learning. Big data management, Data crawling

publications

• Ha, J., Kim, H. J., & With, K. A. (2022). Urban green space alone is not enough: A landscape analysis linking the spatial distribution of urban green space to mental health in the city of Chicago. Landscape and Urban Planning, 218, 104309.
• Ha, J., & Kim, H. J. (2021). The restorative effects of campus landscape biodiversity: Assessing visual and auditory perceptions among university students. Urban Forestry & Urban Greening, 64, 127259.