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Dr Balamurugan Soundararaj

Dr Balamurugan Soundararaj

Senior Lecturer
Arts, Design & Architecture (ADA)
City Futures Research Centre

Dr Balamurugan Soundararaj is a Research Fellow at City Futures Research Centre. He was a part of the award winning Value Australia project which integrated cutting-edge research, significant data assets, state-of-the-art analytics, and machine learning/ artificial intelligence to deliver secure digital valuation models and tools covering a broad range of land and property types across Australia. With a background in urban planning, spatial analysis and human geography, he has 8 years of experience working, teaching, and consulting both in academia and industry. His core research interest is in the collection, analysis, modelling and visualisation of large-scale spatial data with a focus on solving problems in visualising and communicating complex methods and their outputs effectively and transparently.
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0488000191
E-mail
s.bala@unsw.edu.au
Location
Level 3, Anita B Lawrence Centre
  • Book Chapters | 2022
    Ng M; Soundararaj B; Pettit C, 2022, 'Digital Transformations in Planning: An Australian Context', in Mori H; Yoshida T; Anttiroiko A-V (ed.), City, Public Value, and Capitalism New Urban Visions and Public Strategies, Northwestern Roberta Buffett Institute for Global Affairs, Evanston, Illinois, pp. 221 - 237,
    Book Chapters | 2018
    Soundararaj B; Murcio R; Lugomer K, 2018, 'Movements in Cities: Footfall and its Spatio-Temporal Distribution', in Longley P; Cheshire J; SIngleton A (ed.), Consumer Data Research, UCL Press, pp. 84 - 95,
  • Journal articles | 2025
    Murcio R; Soundararaj B, 2025, 'Trends in urban flows: A transfer entropy approach.', CoRR, abs/2501.06316
    Journal articles | 2025
    Soundararaj B; Han H; Pettit C; Lin Y, 2025, 'Transforming urban planning through machine learning: A study on planning application classification using natural language processing', Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design,
    Journal articles | 2024
    Soundararaj B; Pettit C, 2024, 'Australian property market explorer–a front-end native tool for visualizing property sales data', Architectural Science Review, 67, pp. 549 - 557,
    Journal articles | 2023
    Debnath R; Pettit C; Soundararaj B; Shirowzhan S; Jayasekare AS, 2023, 'Usefulness of an Urban Growth Model in Creating Scenarios for City Resilience Planning: An End-User Perspective', ISPRS International Journal of Geo Information, 12, pp. 311,
    Journal articles | 2022
    Aleksandrov M; Barton J; Pettit C; Soundararaj B; Zlatanova S, 2022, 'Towards A Virtual Planning Support Theatre for City Planning and Design', ISPRS Annals of the Photogrammetry Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, 10, pp. 5 - 12,
    Journal articles | 2022
    Soundararaj B; Pettit C; Lock O, 2022, 'Using Real-Time Dashboards to Monitor the Impact of Disruptive Events on Real Estate Market. Case of COVID-19 Pandemic in Australia', Computational Urban Science, 2, pp. 14,
    Journal articles | 2022
    Zare P; Pettit C; Leao S; Gudes O; Soundararaj B; Zarpelon Leao S, 2022, 'Geo-Design in Planning for Bicycling: An Evidence-Based Approach for Collaborative Bicycling Planning', Land, 11, pp. 1943,
    Journal articles | 2021
    Trasberg T; Soundararaj B; Cheshire J, 2021, 'Using Wi-Fi probe requests from mobile phones to quantify the impact of pedestrian flows on retail turnover', Computers Environment and Urban Systems, 87, pp. 101601,
    Journal articles | 2020
    Soundararaj B; Cheshire J; Longley P, 2020, 'Estimating real-time high-street footfall from Wi-Fi probe requests', International Journal of Geographical Information Science, 34, pp. 325 - 343,
    Journal articles | 2018
    Pryke S; Badi S; Almadhoob H; Soundararaj B; Addyman S, 2018, 'Self-Organizing Networks in Complex Infrastructure Projects', Project Management Journal, 49, pp. 18 - 41,
  • Preprints | 2025
    Murcio R; Soundararaj B, 2025, Trends in urban flows: A transfer entropy approach,
    Preprints | 2025
    Thackway W; Soundararaj B; Pettit C, 2025, Demystifying planning application uncertainty: Using machine learning to predict and explain planning application assessment timeframes,
    Preprints | 2024
    Lin Y; Thackway W; Soundararaj B; Eagleson S; Han H; Pettit C, 2024, Transforming Urban Planning through Machine Learning: A Study on Planning Application Classification using Natural Language Processing,
    Reports | 2023
    Soundararaj B; Chyi Lin L; Christopher P; Ali S; Mohammed H; Pettit C; Lee CL, 2023, Towards understanding the dynamics of the Regional Property markets of Australia, ,
    Patents | 2022
    Pettit C; Randolph B; Han H; Lee CL; Shi Y; Ng M; Soundararaj B; Lu Y; Gao Q; Jayasekare A, 2022, Digital models and tools for valuation of land and property, Patent No.
    Conference Papers | 2021
    Soundararaj B; Pettit C, 2021, 'USING EYE-TRACKING to SUPPORT BIG DATA DRIVEN PROPERTY VALUATION TOOLS', in International Archives of the Photogrammetry Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences ISPRS Archives, Copernicus Publications, pp. 111 - 114,

  • 2021 - API Australian Property Research and Education Fund Research Grant for research on 'Towards understanding the dynamics of the regional property markets of Australia: Spatio-temporal analysis, predictive modelling, and visualising of sales in regional SA and NSW'
  • 2021 - ADA Faculty Research Partnership Scheme for research on ‘Supporting system building in non-government schools: Steiner and Montessori’
  • 2018 - UCL Yusuf Ali Travel Grant for attending Conference on Complex Systems presenting 'Trends in urban flows: An information theory approach'Ìý

  • 2019,ÌýBest Paper, Early Career Researcher, GIS Research UK, New Castle 
  • 2015,ÌýBest Paper, Construction Track, RICS Annual Conference, SydneyÂ