Trained as an Architect, Hoa is a Senior Lighting Designer and PhD candidate at Monash University.

Hoa specialises in daylight and night-time equity, with experience in arts and culture, public infrastructure, and urban realm projects. Her practice brings together 24-hour lighting design with human-centric strategies to transform experiences for minority groups within the built environment.

Her research interests include the politics of intersectionality in urban experiences of fear and Ai/ML for qualitative and quantitative datasets.