Dr. Ji-Eun Byun is a Postdoctoral researcher at Engineering Risk Analysis Group, Technical University of Munich, Germany. Her specialism lies in reliability analysis and reliability-based optimization of structural and infrastructure systems against extreme events including natural/human-made hazards and structural deteriorations. She is particularly interested in analyzing complex and large-scale systems such as transportation networks, utility distribution systems, and structural systems, for which her research has dealt with reliability engineering, machine learning techniques, and artificial neural networks.