[1][3] He began teaching at what became National Taiwan University's Graduate Institute of Building and Planning after completing his second master's degree.
[7] In 2010, Hsia helped evaluate bids for the Pop Music Center at Kaohsiung Harbor.
[9] That year, Hsia concurrently served on the Taipei City Government's Cultural Heritage Evaluation Committee.
[10] Hsia was invited to judge the entrants for the first Taiwan Light Environment Award presented by the Coretronic Culture and Arts Foundation in 2018.
"[19] In 2012, Hsia described Taiwan's attempts at cultural preservation as materialistic, due to influence by the Western world.
Yu, a Chinese computer engineer with a Ph.D. degree, had helped Hsia process electronic information.