Hwang is a PhD researcher at the Department of Management in the Built Environment (MBE), TU Delft. Her research investigates the digitalisation of energy renovation processes in the EU, with the core placed on understanding how the Digital Building Logbook (DBL) can process building data into actionable information for relevant stakeholders across the renovation market value chain. By exploring the drivers and challenges in implementing the DBL at various scales, her project aims to contribute to accelerating the decarbonisation of the European existing building stock, both digitally and sustainably.

Along with her PhD, Hwang is also involved in the Horizon Europe project 'Demo-BLog' as an academic researcher. Demo-BLog sees to develop and demonstrate a decision support tool that enables local initiatives to identify optimal sustainability transition pathways driven by clustered DBL data, supported by a demonstration on how DBL data can serve to monitor and progress evaluation of climate and energy transition actions implemented by local governments.