Ji-Eun Byun is a Research Associate at EPICentre, the Department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering, University College London. Her specialism is system reliability analysis and optimization for system-level decision-making. Her research has focused on natural hazards (e.g. earthquakes), large-scale systems (e.g. structural systems, infrastructures, and mechanical systems), probabilistic analysis for high-dimensional distributions, and optimization of high-dimensional problems.