Assistant Professor
Dept. of Construction Management
University of Washington
120 Architecture Hall, Box 351610
Seattle, WA 98195-1610
Phone: 206.616.1915
Fax: 206.685.1976
E-mail:
Research Interest
My research interest is to integrate construction practices, information technologies, and knowledge management (KM) theories and methodologies to support and promote the life cycle of sustainable construction. I am also interested at KM applications for project/organizational/industry learning, collaboration and management.
Selected Peer-Reviewed Conference/Journal Publications
(The list shows the types of research topics I have worked on in the past. For my complete publication list, please see my resume. )
• Lin, K.Y., (2009) “The Development of a Sustainable e-Learning Model – Using Construction Safety and Health Education as an Example”, in the Proceedings of 2009 ASCE International Workshop on Computing in Civil Engineering, June 24-27, 2009, Austin, Texas, USA, pp. 593 – 602.
• H.T. Lin, S.H. Hsieh, K.W. Chou and K.Y. Lin, (2009) “Construction of Engineering Domain Ontology through Extraction of Knowledge from Domain Handbooks”, in the Proceedings of 2009 ASCE International Workshop on Computing in Civil Engineering, June 24-27, 2009, Austin, Texas, USA, pp. 207 – 216.
• Lin, K.Y. and Soibelman, L., (2009) “Incorporating Domain Knowledge and Information Retrieval Techniques to Develop an Architectural/Engineering/Construction (A/E/C) Online Product Search Engine”, ASCE, Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering, 23(4), 2009, pp. 201 – 247.
• Lin, K.Y., Chou, K. W., Lin, H.T., Hsieh, S.H., and Tserng, H.P., (2009) “Exploring the Effectiveness of Chinese-to-English Machine Translation for CLIR Applications in Earthquake Engineering”, ASCE, Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering, 23 (3), 2009, pp. 140 – 147.
• Lin, K.Y., Hsieh, S.H., Tserng, H.P., Chou, K. W., Lin, H.T., Huang, C. P., and Tzeng, K. F., (2008) “A Domain-Specific Reference Collection for Text-Based Information Retrieval in AEC”, Advanced Engineering Informatics, 22 (2008), pp. 350 – 361.
• Soibelman, L., Wu, J.F., Caldas, C., Brilakis, I., Lin, K.Y., (2008) “Management and Analysis of Unstructured Construction Data Types”, Special Edition of the Advanced Engineering Informatics, 22(1), 2008, pp. 15 – 27.
• Tsai, S.L. and Lin, K. Y., (2006) “Exploring Knowledge Management for Project Management from the Implementation of a BOT Hydropower Plant”, Special Edition of Construction Economy (Chinese Journal), 2006, pp. 83 - 85.
• Soibelman, L., Liu, L. Y., Kirby, J. G., East, W. E., Caldas, C.H., and Lin, K.Y., (2003) “A Design Review Checking System with Corporate Lessons Learned”, ASCE, Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, 129 (5), 2003, pp.475-484.
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