Past employers included University of Wisconsin-Stout, Catalfumo Construction, the Weitz Company, John Portman & Associates, and Tianchen Chemical Engineering Co.
Shen, Z., Issa, R, and Gu, L., (2007), "Semantic 3D CAD and Its Applications in Construction Industry - An Outlook of Construction Data Visualization," Advances in Visual Information Systems - Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 4781, 461-467
Shen Z. & Issa R., (2006), "A Case Study of Construction Estimate Using IFCs Data Model", Proceedings of the 13th Rinker International Conference, Orlando, Florida, October.
Shen, Z., Issa, R., O'Brien, W., and Flood, I. (2005), "A Trade Construction Knowledge Module to Enable use of Design Component Data in Project Management", Proceedings of ASCE the 2005 International Conference on Computing in Civil Engineering, Cancun, Mexico, July.
Shen, Z., Issa, R., O'Brien, W., and Flood, I. (2003). "A Model for Integrating Construction Design and Schedule Data", Proceedings of the 4th joint International Symposium on Information Technology In Civil Engineering, Nashville, Tennessee, November.
Shen, Z., Issa, R., O'Brien, W., and Flood, I. (2003). "A proposed design component and schedule data integration model for construction", Proceedings of the 10th European Group for Intelligent Computing in Engineering Workshop, Delft, The Netherlands, July 3-4, 66-75.
Book Chapter:
O'Brien, W., Issa R., Shen, Z., and Xie, H. (2004), "Configurable environments: a vision for future project information technologies" in Kazi, S. (ed.) Knowledge Management in the Construction Industry: A Socio-technical Perspective, Idea Group Publishing, Hershey, PA 17033, USA, 339-358.