Refereed Journal Articles
2025
Decentralized Autonomous Organizations in Built Environments: Applications, Potentials and Limitations
Reachsak Ly, Alireza Shojaei — Information Systems and eBusiness Management Journal · DOI:10.1007/s10257-025-00699-1
2024
Faculty Development Program to Enhance Teaching Quality in Construction
Saeed Rokooei, Alireza Shojaei, Reachsak Ly — International Journal of Construction Management · DOI:10.1080/15623599.2024.2304475
2023
Autonomous Construction Safety Incentive Mechanism Using Blockchain-Enabled Tokens and Vision-Based Techniques
Hossein Naderi, Alireza Shojaei, Reachsak Ly — Automation in Construction, Vol. 153 · DOI:10.1016/j.autcon.2023.104959
2023
Virtual Site Visits in Construction Management Education: A Practical Alternative to Physical Site Visits
Alireza Shojaei, Reachsak Ly, Saeed Rokooei, Amirsamman Mahdavian, Ahmed AlBayati — Journal of Information Technology in Construction (ITcon) · DOI:10.36680/j.itcon.2023.036
Under Review
2025Under Review
Autonomous Building Cyber-Physical Systems Using Decentralized Autonomous Organizations, Digital Twins, and Large Language Models
Reachsak Ly, Alireza Shojaei, Xinghua Gao, Philip Agee, Abiola Akanmu — Automation in Construction (Revision Submitted) · Preprint: arXiv:2410.19262
2025Under Review
Public and Private Blockchain for Decentralized Digital Building Twins and Building Automation Systems
Reachsak Ly, Alireza Shojaei — Information Systems and eBusiness Management (Submitted)
2025Under Review
Data-Driven and Distributed Governance of Building Facilities Management Using DAO, Digital Twin, and LLMs
Reachsak Ly, Alireza Shojaei, Abiola Akanmu, Xinghua Gao, Philip Agee — Frontiers of Engineering Management (Submitted)
2025Under Review
DAO and Blockchain-Based Incentivization Framework for Community-Based Facilities Management
Reachsak Ly, Alireza Shojaei, Xinghua Gao, Philip Agee, Abiola Akanmu — Information Systems Frontiers (Submitted)
2025Under Review
Industry Perspectives on the Role of Education Programs in Supporting Construction Diversity and Inclusion in U.S. Construction
MohammadHossein Heydari, Hossein Naderi, Reachsak Ly, Alireza Shojaei — Innovative Higher Education (Submitted)
Conference Proceedings
2025
Smart Building Operations and Virtual Assistants Using LLM
Reachsak Ly, Alireza Shojaei, Xinghua Gao — 33rd ACM Symposium on Foundations of Software Engineering, Trondheim, Norway · DOI:10.1145/3696630.3728706
2024
DT-DAO: Digital Twin and Blockchain-Based DAO Integration Framework for Smart Building Facility Management
Reachsak Ly, Alireza Shojaei, Hossein Naderi — Construction Research Congress 2024, ASCE, Des Moines, Iowa · DOI:10.1061/9780784485262.081
2024
From Data to Value: NFT-Powered Framework for Data Exchange of Digital Twins in the AEC Industry
Hossein Naderi, Reachsak Ly, Alireza Shojaei — Construction Research Congress 2024, ASCE, Des Moines, Iowa · DOI:10.1061/9780784485262.031
2024
Assessment of Annoyance from Traffic Noise in a School and a Hospital
Hassan Azad, Alireza Shojaei, Reachsak Ly, Saleh Naseer, Laurie M. Heller — Inter-Noise 2024, Nantes, France · DOI:10.3397/IN_2024_4264
2021
Continual-Learning-Based Framework for Structural Damage Recognition
Jiawei Zhang, Jiangpeng Shu, Reachsak Ly, Yiran Ji — 10th International Conference on Structural Health Monitoring of Intelligent Infrastructure, Porto, Portugal
2020
Image-Based Structural Damage Recognition Using Deep Convolutional Neural Networks
Jiawei Zhang, Reachsak Ly, Weijian Zhao, Yunyi Liu — fib Symposium 2020, Shanghai, China
Intellectual Property
2025Approved
Decentralized Autonomous Building Cyber-Physical System (DAB-CPS)
Reachsak Ly, Alireza Shojaei — Virginia Tech IP Disclosure · Invention ID: INV2025-123 · Approved April 2025
2025Approved
LLM-Based Autonomous Building Operations and Virtual Assistants for Smart Buildings
Reachsak Ly, Alireza Shojaei — Virginia Tech IP Disclosure · Invention ID: INV2025-121 · Approved April 2025
Research Reports & Posters
2025
Autonomous Building Operations and Virtual Assistants Using Generative AI
Reachsak Ly — Poster, 2025 Paul E. Torgersen Graduate Student Research Excellence Award, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA
2024
Investigation of Gender and Racial Diversity in U.S. Construction Higher Education
Reachsak Ly, Mohammad Hossein Heydari, Hossein Naderi, Josh Iorio, Alireza Shojaei — Research Report, 2024