Juan Fung

Juan F. Fung received a PhD in economics, as well as an MS in statistics, from
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Juan is currently working on selected
topics in community resilience, including estimating costs of retrofitting
government buildings for seismic events and quantifying a community's indirect
benefits from disaster resilience.

News

Resilient Cedar Rapids: Rebuilding Better Pays Off

August 12, 2020

Many cities in the United States have experienced or will experience devastating losses caused by a natural disaster. In the aftermath of a disaster, the...

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Publications

Understanding the Risk of Lithium-Ion Battery Fires - multi-source data analysis

March 10, 2026

Author(s)

Stanley Gilbert, Hongqiang Fang, David Butry, Wai Cheong Tam, Michelle Donnelly, Juan Fung

Lithium ion battery (LIB) fires are a growing problem that extends across the supply chain, including mining, production, warehousing, shipping, and waste...

Validating LLM-Generated Data Grounded in Technical Documents: An Application in Community Planning

February 3, 2026

Author(s)

Juan Fung, Daniel Kofi Stephens, Alden Dima, Michael Majurski

This report presents a novel approach to generating synthetic variations of technical community planning documents using Large Language Models (LLMs). We...

Causal Machine Learning: An Empirical Approach to Supply Chain Management

January 9, 2026

Author(s)

Alfredo Roa-Henriquez, Juan Fung, Ruhaimatu Abudu, Jennifer Helgeson, Douglas Thomas

Over the past two decades, artificial intelligence (AI) has revolutionized industries, with machine learning (ML) at its core. While ML has enhanced supply...

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Data and Software Publications

frbca

Author(s)

Juan Francisco Fung

`{frbca}` is an R package supporting economic evaluation of functional recovery design for buildings. The goal of frbca is to conduct benefit-cost analysis (BCA) for buildings archetypes designed for

Juan Fung (Fed)

Economist

News

Resilient Cedar Rapids: Rebuilding Better Pays Off

Publications

Understanding the Risk of Lithium-Ion Battery Fires - multi-source data analysis

Validating LLM-Generated Data Grounded in Technical Documents: An Application in Community Planning

Causal Machine Learning: An Empirical Approach to Supply Chain Management

Data and Software Publications

frbca