I have zero reculection on a Ham in WoT...refresh me please...
Well there is a Hamad that's one of Bashere's men, but I was actually thinking of Han the "short" Aiel clan chief.
honestly my answers were not intended to be serious as it appears to me that they are trying to get someone else to do their homework for them. However then I noticed that his initial post did have Interview in it, so I apologize humbly for being a jerkfish :-)
so to rephrase my responses
1. I would say that they are similar in that both are well written and have a feel of "real" people. In that they seem to reflect real people it's easy to see similarities as there are in any real people
2. My understanding is both his work on Mistborn and his Eulogy that can be found on his website both went really far in him being selected.
3. I agree with others. They both write big epic fantasies. Where they differ greatest is that Brandon's seem to wrap things up fairly neatly and don't go off on quite the tangents that WoT has to this point. They rank among two of my favorites.