Professor and Richard Wilson Faculty Scholar
Industrial and Operations Engineering
University of Michigan
1205 Beal Avenue
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2117
U.S.A.
Office: 2773 IOE
Phone: (734)764-6565
e-mail: [email protected]
Education
- Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, Industrial and Systems Engineering, Ph.D.
- KAIST (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology), South Korea, Industrial and Systems Engineering, M.S.
- KAIST (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology), South Korea, Industrial and Systems Engineering, B.S.
Appointments
- Professor, Industrial and Operational Engineering, University of Michigan, 9/2024-
- Associate professor, Industrial and Operational Engineering, University of Michigan, 9/2017-8/2024
- Associate professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Michigan (Courtesy appointment), 9/2017-08/2020
- Assistant professor, Industrial and Operational Engineering, University of Michigan, 9/2011-8/2017
- Assistant professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Michigan (Courtesy appointment), 5/2015-8/2017
- Postdoctoral Research Associate, Texas A&M University, 6/2010-8/2011
Research Interests
- Data Science
- Digital Twin Calibration and Uncertainty Quantification
- Reliability Engineering, Fault Diagnosis, and Operations & Maintenance Optimization
- Sequential Computer Experiments
- Energy & Sustainability
Latest News
- (November 2024) Prof. Byon provided the INFORMS QSR webinar titled “Digital Twin Calibration with Big Data.” The recorded video is available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7g13MtsyVAQ.
- (September 2024) Cheoljoon Jeong (Ph.D candidate) won the Best Student Paper Competition Finalist in the INFORMS QSR section.
- (May 2024) Dr. Byon received the teaching award from the QCRE division of IISE.
- (Dec 2023) Cheoljoon Jeong (Ph. D candidate) is selected as one of the first cohort of the University of Michigan Institute for Energy Solutions (IES) Graduate Fellows (2024-2025).
- (May 2023) Dr. Byon received a University Research Project grant from Ford Motor Company (May 2023-April 2025)
- (May 2023) Cheoljoon Jeong (Ph. D candidate) was awarded the IOE Wilson Prize for our paper “Multi-block Parameter Calibration in Computer Models.”
- (April 2023) Dr. Byon has been named a Richard Wilson Faculty Scholar, a three-year endowed faculty award that honors excellence in teaching, research, and service.
- (December 2022) Dr. Byon received an NSF grant for the project entitled “Collaborative Research: Calibrating Digital Twins in the Era of Big Data with Stochastic Optimization” in collaboration with Dr. Sara Shashaani at NCSU (Jan 2023-Dec 2025).
- (October 2022) Dr. Byon received the 2022 Best Associate Editor (AE) award of INFORMS Journal on Data Science.
- (August 2022) Our paper “Optimal budget allocation for stochastic simulation with importance sampling: exploration vs. replication” is featured by the Editor-in-Chief in the 2022 August Issue in ISE magazine.
- (July 2021) Cheoljoon Jeong (Ph. D student) has been selected as the recipient of the IOE Bonder fellowship for dissertation research in applied operations research.
- (May 2021) Dr. Byon received the 2021 Department Faculty Award.
- (April 2021) Youngchan Jang (Ph. D student) successfully finished his PhD study in 2021 and joined Korea Army Research Center for Future & Innovation (KARFI).
- (May 2021) Cheoljoon Jeong (PhD student) and Ziang Xu (Master’s student) won the Best Paper Finalist in the 2021 IISE Data Analytics & Information Systems subdivision with the paper “Season-dependent Parameter Calibration in Building Energy Simulation”
- (May 2021) Bingje Liu (Ph. D student) won the Best Student Paper Finalist and Best Paper Finalist in the 2021 IISE Data Analytics & Information Systems subdivision with the paper “Parameter calibration in wake effect simulation model with stochastic gradient descent and stratified sampling”
- (January 2021) Bingjie Liu (Ph. D student) successfully finished her PhD study in 2020 and joined Zhejiang University as a postdoc researcher.