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Diellza Elshani is a research associate and doctoral candidate at the Institute for Computational Design and Construction at the University of Stuttgart. She holds a Master of Science in Integrated Urban Development & Design from the Bauhaus University of Weimar and a Bachelor of Architecture from Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University in Istanbul.
Before coming to ICD, Diellza was a researcher at the City Intelligence Lab (CIL) of the Austrian Institute of Technology (AIT), focusing on cognitive urban design computing. Her Master Thesis is written at the Chair of Computational Architecture at the Bauhaus University Weimar, collaborating with the AIT. It presents a computational framework to measure, operationalize and interpret the performance of the urban form using generative design methods.
She has garnered architectural experience in Germany, Austria, Turkey, and Kosovo. Additionally, she delivered lectures, mentored workshops and hackathons, participated in summer schools, conferences, film festivals, and engaged in various extracurricular activities that have shaped her as a person, designer, and scientist.
Diellza's primary research interest lies at the intersection of Symbolic Artificial Intelligence and Building Information Modeling, with a specific focus on knowledge graphs and Semantic Web Technologies.
Key words: Symbolic AI, Semantic Web Technologies, and Knowledge Graphs for Multi-disciplinary Building Co-design and Building Information Modeling.
Elshani, D., Hernandez, D., Lombardi, A., Siriwardena, L., Schwinn, T., Fisher, A., Staab, S., Menges, A., & Wortmann, T. (2023). Building Information Validation and Reasoning Using Semantic Web Technologies. In M. Turrin, C. Andriotis, & A. Rafiee (Eds.), Computer-Aided Architectural Design. INTERCONNECTIONS: Co-computing Beyond Boundaries (pp. 470--484). Springer Nature Switzerland.
Elshani, D., Lombardi, A., Fisher, A., Staab, S., Hernández, D., & Wortmann, T. (2022, May). Knowledge Graphs for Multidisciplinary Co-Design: Introducing RDF to BHoM. In Proceedings of LDAC2022 - 10th Linked Data in Architecture and Construction Workshop. LDAC2022 - 10th Linked Data in Architecture and Construction Workshop, Hersonissos, Greece.
Elshani, D., Lombardi, A., Fisher, A., Staab, S., Hernández, D., & Wortmann, T. (2022, September). Inferential Reasoning in Co-Design Using Semantic Web Standards alongside BHoM. Proceedings of 33. Forum Bauinformatik.
Elshani, D., Wortmann, T., & Staab, S. (2022, May). Towards Better Co-Design with Disciplinary Ontologies: Review and Evaluation of Data Interoperability in the AEC Industry. In Proceedings of LDAC2022 - 10th Linked Data in Architecture and Construction Workshop. LDAC2022 - 10th Linked Data in Architecture and Construction Workshop, Hersonissos, Greece.
Elshani, Diellza; Reinhard Koenig; Duering, Serjoscha; Schneider, Sven; Chronis, Angelos (2021): Measuring Sustainability and Urban Data Operationalization. An integrated computational framework to evaluate and interpret the performance of the urban form. In Caadria. Hong Kong.
Elshani, D., Vititneva, E., Gilmanov, A., Koenig, R., Schneider, S., et al. 2019. Rural Urban Transformation: Parametric Approach on Metabolims-Based Planning Strategies in Ethiopia. SimAUD: Symposium on Simulation for Architecture & Urban Design.Vienna. | http://simaud.org/2020/proceedings/79.pdf
Blasius,B., Beenen, P., Brandt, M., Elshani, D., et al. 2019. Tirana. Architecture as a political actor. Bauhaus University Weimar. | https://e-pub.uni-weimar.de/opus4/frontdoor/deliver/index/docId/3995/file/Kuch_Ulrike_Tirana.pdf
Courses:
- Laboratory Course Artificial Intelligence: Semantic Digital Twins - WS 2023/2024
- BIM Seminar - SS 2023 & WS 2023/2024
Thesis:
- ITECH Master's Thesis Topic – Linked Urban Data, 2022/23, Student: Xi Peng
- Architecture Master's Thesis Topic – Learning and Generating Spatial Concepts of Modernist Architecture via Graph Machine Learning 2022/23, Student: Erik Bauscher
Workshops:
- CAAD Futures Co-Creation Session: “Are graphs the new BIM?”. TU Delft, 2023
- ML meets AEC - Autumn School 2022 - hosted by IntCDC - AdvanceAEC
- Digital Futures Workshop 2022: BIM with Knowledge Graphs, June 2022
- Description: Digital Futures Website,
- Tutorials: Youtube and Vimeo
- Cosmos Workshop: - Human Intelligence versus Artificial Intelligence - design solutions during pandemic Faculty of Fine Arts at Kütahya Dumlupınar University
- Digital Futures Workshop 2020: "AI for resilient urban planning“ Workshop/Hackathon CIL/AIT.
Research & Projects:
- IntCDC's Large-Scale Construction Robotics Laboratory (LCRL)
- RP20: Knowledge Represantaion for Multi-dscisplinar co-design of buildings
Conference Presentations:
- 2023 CAAD Futures: Building Information Validation and Reasoning Using Semantic Web Technologies. CAAD Futures 2023, Interconnections: Co-computing beyond boundaries. TU Delft
- 2023 LDAC: bhOWL: BHoM with Semantic Web Technologies. 11th Linked Data in Architecture and Construction | Matera, Italy
- 2022 FBI: Inferential Reasoning in Co-Design Using Semantic Web Standards alongside BHoM. Leonhard Obermeyer Center at the Technical University of Munich
- 2022 ESWC: Knowledge Graphs for Multidisciplinary Co-Design: Introducing RDF to BHoM. Extended Semantic Web Conference in Hersonissos, Greece.
- 2022 ESWC: Towards Better Co-Design with Disciplinary Ontologies: Review and Evaluation of Data Interoperability in the AEC Industry. Extended Semantic Web Conference in Hersonissos, Greece.
- 2021 CAADRIA: Measuring Sustainability and Urban Data Operationalization
- 2020 SimAUD: Rural Urban Transformation: Parametric Approach on Metabolism-Based Planning Strategies in Ethiopia.
Invited Lectures:
- 2023 Knowledge Representation for Multi-Disciplinary Co-Design of Buildings. Engineering Intelligence – Cyber Valley , University of Stuttgart
- 2023 bhOWL: Federated Data Schemas and Semantic Web Technologies via Design Tools with a Focus on Grasshopper 3D. W3C Community and Business Groups
- 2023 AI in Architecture: Focused on Knowledge Graphs, Urban Performance, Data Modeling, and BIM. Part of the “Art, ‘Architecture, and Technology” course at the Faculty of Architecture, “Hasan Prishtina” University in Kosovo.
- 2023 Application of Semantic Web in Architecture. FIEK Faculty of Electric and Computeric Engineering at the University of Prishtina, "Hasan Prishtina", Kosovo.
- 2023 Knowledge Graphs for Co-Design of Built Environment. CoDeC -Cognitive Urban Design Computing. Vienna
- 2022 AI & Architecture: Knowledge graphs as tools for co-designing buildings. Cyber Valley
- 2022 AC Oberseminar Artificial Intelligence: Knowledge Representation for Multi-Disciplinary Co-Design. Analytic Computing Oberseminar Artificial Intelligence Lecture Series
- 2022 Knowledge graphs as tools for co-designing buildings. SIGDIUS Seminar
- 2022 BIM with Knowledge Graphs: Co-designing buildings using ontologies. Digitize wood Network at ARENA2036, Stuttgart
- 2021 Digital and Intelligent Design. Faculty of Architecture of Kutahya Dumlupinar University. Turkey
Scientific Peer-Review:
- 2023-current: Resources, Conservation and Recycling Journal, ScienceDirect.
- 2023-current: Linked Data in Architecture and Construction (LDAC), CEUR Workshop Proceedings.
- 2023-current: NLP4KGC Workshop of SEMANTiCS 2024 Conference.
Awards
- First place in Linked Building Data Hackathon 2022.
- Best Graduate Award 2020/2021 - IUDD Bauhaus University Weimar.
- Second place in Bratislava Climate Hackathon Vienna Online 2020.
- DAAD scholarship recipient for architecture study.
- Erasmus+ scholarship recipient.
- Turkiye Burslari Scholarship recipient.
- Best Thesis Projects - Psychiatric Hospital 2017.
- 4th Place Mathematics Olympiads in Kosovo 2011.