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Real Estate Transformation Lab
Leveraging technological advances and emergent digital tools, we provide a platform to support social, economic, and environmental transformations in the real estate industry.
Researchers
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Kairos Shen
Executive Director, Center for Real Estate; Associate Professor of the Practice
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RE Transformation Lab
Kairos Shen will serve as the faculty director and P.I. for the Real Estate Transformation Lab. Currently, this lab has two hubs: one is the real estate technology hub, led by James Scott and Steve Weikal; and the other focuses on Kairos’ own interest in private-public partnership and civic technology in innovative development.