Spotlight on a student: Jihye Shin
Jihye is a final year PhD candidate at the Centre for Spatial Data Infrastructures and Land Administration (CSDILA) at the University of Melbourne. Her academic background is building informatics, and she has published several papers about leveraging digital information technologies for innovating and automating the current practices in land administration and building sectors. Her research interests include 3D cadastre, land titling, Building Information Modeling (BIM), building performance analysis, machine learning, and automated rule checking. As a digital engineer, she has been participating in a series of research projects and training activities, and aims to complete her PhD in early 2022.
What is your research about?
Many people live in apartment buildings in urban areas and experience conflicts and disputes on property use and management in high-density communal living. My research looks at disputes in multi-owned buildings from a land administration lens, questioning how to create a good title to minimise disputes. In this context, this research adds dispute minimisation to the dimensions for evaluating 3D ownership rights, responsibilities, and restrictions (RRRs).
This research develops a novel approach to assess ownership RRRs in multi-owned buildings to proactively minimise disputes at the planning stage. The methodology employs a performance-based approach and interprets dispute minimisation as a performance for cadastral plans that can be evaluated and controlled using indicators. It provides a BIM-based framework for automated checking of the plans over indicators that present dispute-preventive characteristics of the RRRs. The indicators have been established based on the tribunal case analysis using machine learning techniques and the industry expert interview. The machine-readable rules for checking indicators that compute geometric, semantic, and topological information of ownership RRRs in BIM data have been implemented.
The research outcomes could facilitate the creation of cadastral plans without dispute triggers under a consistent and systematic approach across the industry. It will contribute to the construction of a harmonious living environment in urban areas.
Who are your supervisors?
My PhD project is supervised by Professor Abbas Rajabifard, Associate Professor Mohsen Kalantari, and Dr Behnam Atazadeh.
What do you want to do next?
I am enthusiastic about research to tackle real-world problems using 3D digital information technologies. After my PhD, I would like to continue my research in academia, industry or government agencies to deliver a better living environment efficiently and effectively to our society. I would also actively engage with the industry and professionals to grasp business requirements and drive fit-for-purpose solutions.
Have you received any awards?
I have received the following awards for my PhD research:
- Melbourne Research Scholarship for throughout my PhD
- Best Paper Award in 2019 at the International Congress and Conferences on Computational Design and Engineering (i3CDE) 2019.
Further information
Jihye is happy to answer any questions about her research – you can contact her on LinkedIn, ResearchGate, or email: jihyes@student.unimelb.edu.au