Dr Ji-Eun Byun

  • Lecturer in Smart Sustainable and Resilient Infrastructure (Infrastructure & Environment)

telephone: 01413304109
email: Ji-Eun.Byun@glasgow.ac.uk

Oakfield Avenue, Glasgow, Glasgow City, Scotland, United Kingdom, G12

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ORCID iDhttps://orcid.org/0000-0003-0437-5013

Biography

Education

  • 2020: MS/PhD in Civil and Environmental Engineering, Seoul National University, South Korea
    Major in Structural and System Reliability Engineering
    Dissertation Title: “Matrix-based Bayesian network for reliability assessment and decision making of complex large-scale systems”
    Dissertation Advisor: Junho Song
  • 2015: BS in Civil and Environmental Engineering, Seoul National University, South Korea

Employment

  • 2022 - present: Lecturer in Smart Infrastructure, James Watt School of Engineering, University of Glasgow
  • 2021-2022: Postdoctoral Researcher at Engineering Risk Analysis Group, Technical University of Munich, Germany
    • Funded by Humboldt Research Fellowships for postdoctoral researchers
    • Project title: Optimal predictive maintenance of large-scale civil systems (Advisor: Prof. Daniel Straub)
  • 2020-2021: Postdoctoral Researcher at Epicentre, University College London 
    • Research project: Tomorrow’s Cities funded by UKRI GCRF
    • Research topic: Multi-hazard physical vulnerability of transport infrastructure (Advisor: Prof. Dina D’Ayala)2020-2021: PDRA in Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering, University College London 

Research interests

I study how to make complex systems more reliable and resilient under uncertainty. My work involves Bayesian network, probabilistic modelling, data analysis, and AI to understand and manage risks. My vision is to make UQ and decision tools part of everyday decisions by overcoming current barriers, including high computational costs, memory demands, expertise requirements, and validation challenges. Applications include highway networks, energy grids, railways, and process plants. I also explore ways to integrate social and physical vulnerability into risk assessments, aiming to support inclusive, participatory decision-making.

I am also interested in developing technical toolkits, including MBNPy, a Bayesian network toolkit for handling large-scale systems: https://jieunbyun.github.io/MBNpy/

My research blog is available at: https://jieunbyun.github.io/ 

Publications

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Number of items: 28.

2026

Lee, Se-Hyeok, Mun, Changuk, Song, Junho and Byun, Ji-Eun ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0437-5013 (2026) Event and fault tree-based Bayesian network for probabilistic safety assessment of earthquake-induced fire and explosion hazard. Journal of Loss Prevention in the Process Industries, 99, 105789. (doi: 10.1016/j.jlp.2025.105789)

2025

Byun, Ji-Eun ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0437-5013, Ryu, Hyeuk and Straub, Daniel (2025) Branch-and-bound algorithm for efficient reliability analysis of general coherent systems. Structural Safety, 118, 102653. (doi: 10.1016/j.strusafe.2025.102653)

Lee, Dongkyu, Byun, Ji-Eun ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0437-5013 and Song, Junho (2025) Dual graph‐based Bayesian network modeling with Rao‐Blackwellization for seismic reliability and complexity quantification of network connectivity. Earthquake Engineering and Structural Dynamics, 54(10), pp. 2387-2402. (doi: 10.1002/eqe.4362)

Kim, Taeyong, Yi, Sang-ri, Kim, Ji Hyeon and Byun, Ji-Eun ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0437-5013 (2025) Disaster resilience analysis framework for lifeline networks: integrating reliability, redundancy, and recoverability. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 123, 105436. (doi: 10.1016/j.ijdrr.2025.105436)

Seok, Uichan, Byun, Ji-Eun ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0437-5013 and Song, Junho (2025) Disaster risk-informed optimization using buffered failure probability for regional-scale building retrofit strategy. Structural Safety, 114, 102556. (doi: 10.1016/j.strusafe.2024.102556)

Kim, Taeyong, Yi, Sang-ri, Hyeon Kim, Ji and Byun, Ji-Eun ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0437-5013 (2025) Assessment of disaster resilience performance of structural systems in relation to design response spectrum. Journal of the Computational Structural Engineering Institute of Korea, 38(1), pp. 27-34. (doi: 10.7734/COSEIK.2025.38.1.27)

2024

Byun, Ji-Eun ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0437-5013 and Yi, Sang-ri (2024) Anti-price-gouging law is neither good nor bad in itself: a proposal of narrative numeric method for transdisciplinary social discourses. npj Natural Hazards, 1, 4. (doi: 10.1038/s44304-024-00005-y)

2023

Byun, Ji-Eun ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0437-5013, de Oliveira, Welington and Royset, Johannes O. (2023) S-BORM: reliability-based optimization of general systems using buffered optimization and reliability method. Reliability Engineering and System Safety, 236, 109314. (doi: 10.1016/j.ress.2023.109314)

2022

Byun, Ji-Eun ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0437-5013 and D’Ayala, Dina (2022) ResMapper: Matlab tool for seismic resilience mapping of large-scale road networks. SoftwareX, 20, 101249. (doi: 10.1016/j.softx.2022.101249)

Byun, J-E. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0437-5013, De Oliveira, W. and Royset, J.O. (2022) S-BORM: Reliability-based optimization of general systems using buffered optimization and reliability method. arXiv, (doi: 10.48550/arXiv.2209.02573)

Byun, Ji-Eun ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0437-5013 and D'Ayala, Dina (2022) Seismic Resilience Mapping of Large-Scale Transportation Networks: Applications to Network in Istanbul, Turkey. 13th International Conference on Structural Safety & Reliability (ICOSSAR 2021-2022), Shanghai, China, 13-17 Sep 2022.

Byun, Ji-Eun ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0437-5013 and Straub, Daniel (2022) Active Learning of Deep Neural Networks for Reliability Analysis of Network Systems. 32nd European Safety and Reliability Conference (ESREL 2022), Dublin, Ireland, 28 Aug - 01 Sep 2022.

Byun, Ji-Eun ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0437-5013 and Royset, Johannes O. (2022) Data-driven optimization of reliability using buffered failure probability. Structural Safety, 98, 102232. (doi: 10.1016/j.strusafe.2022.102232)

Byun, Ji-Eun ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0437-5013 and Straub, Daniel (2022) Reliability Analysis of Transportation Networks Using Artificial Neural Networks. Engineering Mechanics Institute Conference 2022 (EMI 2022), Baltimore, MD, USA, 31 May - 03 Jun 2022.

Byun, Ji-Eun ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0437-5013 and D’Ayala, Dina (2022) Urban seismic resilience mapping: a transportation network in Istanbul, Turkey. Scientific Reports, 12, 8188. (doi: 10.1038/s41598-022-11991-2) (PMID:35581236) (PMCID:PMC9114029)

Byun, Ji-Eun ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0437-5013 (2022) Physics-Informed Neural Networks for Traffic Assignment Optimization. The Applied Machine Learning Days (AMLD) at EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland, 26-30 Mar 2022.

2021

Byun, Ji-Eun ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0437-5013 and Song, Junho (2021) A general framework of Bayesian network for system reliability analysis using junction tree. Reliability Engineering and System Safety, 216, 107952. (doi: 10.1016/j.ress.2021.107952)

Royset, Johannes O. and Byun, Ji-Eun ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0437-5013 (2021) Gradients and subgradients of buffered failure probability. Operations Research Letters, 49(6), pp. 868-873. (doi: 10.1016/j.orl.2021.10.004)

Byun, J.-E. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0437-5013 and Royset, J.O. (2021) Data-driven optimization of reliability using buffered failure probability. arXiv, (doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2107.11176)

Byun, Ji-Eun ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0437-5013 and Song, Junho (2021) Generalized matrix-based Bayesian network for multi-state systems. Reliability Engineering and System Safety, 211, 107468. (doi: 10.1016/j.ress.2021.107468)

Byun, Ji-Eun ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0437-5013 (2021) Seismic Resilience Analysis of Urban Transportation Networks using Bayesian Network. 8th International Conference on Computational Methods in Structural Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering (COMPDYN 2021), 28-30 Jun 2021.

Byun, Ji-Eun ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0437-5013 (2021) Risk-Informed Decision-Support on Large-Scale Multi-State Systems Using Matrix-Based Bayesian Network. 2021 Engineering Mechanics Institute Conference (EMI 2021), New York, NY, USA, 25-28 May 2021.

2020

Byun, Ji-Eun ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0437-5013 (2020) Risk-Informed Decision-Support for Complex Infrastructure Systems Using Matrix-Based Bayesian Network. In: 7th International Symposium on Life-Cycle Civil Engineering (IALCCE 2020), Shanghai, China, 27-30 Oct 2020, ISBN 9780429343292 (doi: 10.1201/9780429343292-9)

2019

Byun, Ji-Eun ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0437-5013 (2019) Integrating Decomposition Algorithm and Sampling Techniques for Reliability Analysis of Multi-State Infrastructures. 2019 Engineering Mechanics Institute Conference (EMI 2019), Lyon, France, 3-5 July 2019.

Byun, Ji-Eun ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0437-5013 and Song, Junho (2019) Efficient Optimization for Multi-Objective Decision-Making on Civil Systems Using Discrete Influence Diagram. In: 13th International Conference on Applications of Statistics and Probability in Civil Engineering (ICASP 13), Seoul, South Korea, 26-30 May 2019, ISBN 979119671250195530 (doi: 10.22725/ICASP13.242)

Byun, Ji-Eun ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0437-5013 and Song, Junho (2019) Linear Programming by Delayed Column Generation for Bounds on Reliability of Larger Systems. In: 13th International Conference on Applications of Statistics and Probability in Civil Engineering (ICASP 13), Seoul, South Korea, 26-30 May 2019, ISBN 979119671250195530 (doi: 10.22725/ICASP13.119)

2018

Byun, Ji-Eun ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0437-5013, Zwirglmaier, K., Song, J. and Straub, D. (2018) Development of matrix-based Bayesian Network (MBN). 2018 Engineering Mechanics Institute Conference (EMI 2018), Cambridge, MA, USA, 29 May-1 June 2018.

2017

Byun, Ji-Eun ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0437-5013, Noh, H.-M. and Song, J. (2017) Reliability Growth Prediction for k-out-of-N Systems Using Matrix-Based System Reliability Method and Reliability Growth Models. 2017 Asian Symposium on Risk Assessment and Management (ASRAM 2017), Yokohama, Japan, 13-15 Nov 2017.

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Number of items: 29.

Articles

Lee, Se-Hyeok, Mun, Changuk, Song, Junho and Byun, Ji-Eun ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0437-5013 (2026) Event and fault tree-based Bayesian network for probabilistic safety assessment of earthquake-induced fire and explosion hazard. Journal of Loss Prevention in the Process Industries, 99, 105789. (doi: 10.1016/j.jlp.2025.105789)

Byun, Ji-Eun ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0437-5013, Ryu, Hyeuk and Straub, Daniel (2025) Branch-and-bound algorithm for efficient reliability analysis of general coherent systems. Structural Safety, 118, 102653. (doi: 10.1016/j.strusafe.2025.102653)

Lee, Dongkyu, Byun, Ji-Eun ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0437-5013 and Song, Junho (2025) Dual graph‐based Bayesian network modeling with Rao‐Blackwellization for seismic reliability and complexity quantification of network connectivity. Earthquake Engineering and Structural Dynamics, 54(10), pp. 2387-2402. (doi: 10.1002/eqe.4362)

Kim, Taeyong, Yi, Sang-ri, Kim, Ji Hyeon and Byun, Ji-Eun ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0437-5013 (2025) Disaster resilience analysis framework for lifeline networks: integrating reliability, redundancy, and recoverability. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 123, 105436. (doi: 10.1016/j.ijdrr.2025.105436)

Seok, Uichan, Byun, Ji-Eun ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0437-5013 and Song, Junho (2025) Disaster risk-informed optimization using buffered failure probability for regional-scale building retrofit strategy. Structural Safety, 114, 102556. (doi: 10.1016/j.strusafe.2024.102556)

Kim, Taeyong, Yi, Sang-ri, Hyeon Kim, Ji and Byun, Ji-Eun ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0437-5013 (2025) Assessment of disaster resilience performance of structural systems in relation to design response spectrum. Journal of the Computational Structural Engineering Institute of Korea, 38(1), pp. 27-34. (doi: 10.7734/COSEIK.2025.38.1.27)

Byun, Ji-Eun ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0437-5013 and Yi, Sang-ri (2024) Anti-price-gouging law is neither good nor bad in itself: a proposal of narrative numeric method for transdisciplinary social discourses. npj Natural Hazards, 1, 4. (doi: 10.1038/s44304-024-00005-y)

Byun, Ji-Eun ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0437-5013, de Oliveira, Welington and Royset, Johannes O. (2023) S-BORM: reliability-based optimization of general systems using buffered optimization and reliability method. Reliability Engineering and System Safety, 236, 109314. (doi: 10.1016/j.ress.2023.109314)

Byun, Ji-Eun ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0437-5013 and D’Ayala, Dina (2022) ResMapper: Matlab tool for seismic resilience mapping of large-scale road networks. SoftwareX, 20, 101249. (doi: 10.1016/j.softx.2022.101249)

Byun, J-E. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0437-5013, De Oliveira, W. and Royset, J.O. (2022) S-BORM: Reliability-based optimization of general systems using buffered optimization and reliability method. arXiv, (doi: 10.48550/arXiv.2209.02573)

Byun, Ji-Eun ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0437-5013 and Royset, Johannes O. (2022) Data-driven optimization of reliability using buffered failure probability. Structural Safety, 98, 102232. (doi: 10.1016/j.strusafe.2022.102232)

Byun, Ji-Eun ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0437-5013 and D’Ayala, Dina (2022) Urban seismic resilience mapping: a transportation network in Istanbul, Turkey. Scientific Reports, 12, 8188. (doi: 10.1038/s41598-022-11991-2) (PMID:35581236) (PMCID:PMC9114029)

Byun, Ji-Eun ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0437-5013 and Song, Junho (2021) A general framework of Bayesian network for system reliability analysis using junction tree. Reliability Engineering and System Safety, 216, 107952. (doi: 10.1016/j.ress.2021.107952)

Royset, Johannes O. and Byun, Ji-Eun ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0437-5013 (2021) Gradients and subgradients of buffered failure probability. Operations Research Letters, 49(6), pp. 868-873. (doi: 10.1016/j.orl.2021.10.004)

Byun, J.-E. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0437-5013 and Royset, J.O. (2021) Data-driven optimization of reliability using buffered failure probability. arXiv, (doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2107.11176)

Byun, Ji-Eun ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0437-5013 and Song, Junho (2021) Generalized matrix-based Bayesian network for multi-state systems. Reliability Engineering and System Safety, 211, 107468. (doi: 10.1016/j.ress.2021.107468)

Conference or Workshop Item

Byun, Ji-Eun ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0437-5013 and D'Ayala, Dina (2022) Seismic Resilience Mapping of Large-Scale Transportation Networks: Applications to Network in Istanbul, Turkey. 13th International Conference on Structural Safety & Reliability (ICOSSAR 2021-2022), Shanghai, China, 13-17 Sep 2022.

Byun, Ji-Eun ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0437-5013 and Straub, Daniel (2022) Active Learning of Deep Neural Networks for Reliability Analysis of Network Systems. 32nd European Safety and Reliability Conference (ESREL 2022), Dublin, Ireland, 28 Aug - 01 Sep 2022.

Byun, Ji-Eun ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0437-5013 and Straub, Daniel (2022) Reliability Analysis of Transportation Networks Using Artificial Neural Networks. Engineering Mechanics Institute Conference 2022 (EMI 2022), Baltimore, MD, USA, 31 May - 03 Jun 2022.

Byun, Ji-Eun ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0437-5013 (2022) Physics-Informed Neural Networks for Traffic Assignment Optimization. The Applied Machine Learning Days (AMLD) at EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland, 26-30 Mar 2022.

Byun, Ji-Eun ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0437-5013 (2021) Seismic Resilience Analysis of Urban Transportation Networks using Bayesian Network. 8th International Conference on Computational Methods in Structural Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering (COMPDYN 2021), 28-30 Jun 2021.

Byun, Ji-Eun ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0437-5013 (2021) Risk-Informed Decision-Support on Large-Scale Multi-State Systems Using Matrix-Based Bayesian Network. 2021 Engineering Mechanics Institute Conference (EMI 2021), New York, NY, USA, 25-28 May 2021.

Byun, Ji-Eun ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0437-5013 (2019) Integrating Decomposition Algorithm and Sampling Techniques for Reliability Analysis of Multi-State Infrastructures. 2019 Engineering Mechanics Institute Conference (EMI 2019), Lyon, France, 3-5 July 2019.

Byun, Ji-Eun ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0437-5013, Zwirglmaier, K., Song, J. and Straub, D. (2018) Development of matrix-based Bayesian Network (MBN). 2018 Engineering Mechanics Institute Conference (EMI 2018), Cambridge, MA, USA, 29 May-1 June 2018.

Byun, Ji-Eun ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0437-5013, Noh, H.-M. and Song, J. (2017) Reliability Growth Prediction for k-out-of-N Systems Using Matrix-Based System Reliability Method and Reliability Growth Models. 2017 Asian Symposium on Risk Assessment and Management (ASRAM 2017), Yokohama, Japan, 13-15 Nov 2017.

Byun, Ji-Eun ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0437-5013 and Song, J. Application of Matrix-Based System Reliability (MSR) Method to k-out-of-N System Described by Reliability Growth Models. 18th IFIP WG7.5 2016 Working Conference, Pittsburgh, PA, USA, 18-20 May 2016.

Conference Proceedings

Byun, Ji-Eun ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0437-5013 (2020) Risk-Informed Decision-Support for Complex Infrastructure Systems Using Matrix-Based Bayesian Network. In: 7th International Symposium on Life-Cycle Civil Engineering (IALCCE 2020), Shanghai, China, 27-30 Oct 2020, ISBN 9780429343292 (doi: 10.1201/9780429343292-9)

Byun, Ji-Eun ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0437-5013 and Song, Junho (2019) Efficient Optimization for Multi-Objective Decision-Making on Civil Systems Using Discrete Influence Diagram. In: 13th International Conference on Applications of Statistics and Probability in Civil Engineering (ICASP 13), Seoul, South Korea, 26-30 May 2019, ISBN 979119671250195530 (doi: 10.22725/ICASP13.242)

Byun, Ji-Eun ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0437-5013 and Song, Junho (2019) Linear Programming by Delayed Column Generation for Bounds on Reliability of Larger Systems. In: 13th International Conference on Applications of Statistics and Probability in Civil Engineering (ICASP 13), Seoul, South Korea, 26-30 May 2019, ISBN 979119671250195530 (doi: 10.22725/ICASP13.119)

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Supervision

Currently, I'm interested in the following topics:

  • Rail disruption management
  • Resilience of power grid under demand and supply uncertainties
  • Risk assessment of wildfire evacuation
  • Predictive maintenance of deteriorating structures
  • Risk mapping and risk communication
  • Bayesian network for complex systems

If you are interested in the topics above, please contact me via email.

Teaching

My teaching interests are

  • risk assessment and uncertainty-based optimisation of engineering systems and
  • machine learning and artificial intelligence.

Professional activities & recognition

Editorial boards

  • 2025: Structural Safety

Professional & learned societies

  • 2023 - 2026: Committee member, Earthquake Engineering and Field Investigation Team