Professor Junho Song received his B.S. and M.S. in Civil Engineering from Seoul National University and his Ph.D. in Civil and Environmental Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley. After postdoctoral research at UC Berkeley and service as a senior engineer at Risk Management Solutions, he joined the faculty of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. He later joined Seoul National University as a Next Generation Faculty member and has held leadership roles including Director of the Center for Urban Resilience, Associate Dean of Academic Affairs in the College of Engineering, and Head of the Task Force for establishing the College of Transdisciplinary Innovations. He currently serves as the college's founding dean and as a POSCO Distinguished Professor.

His research addresses structural and system reliability, reliability-based design and optimization, risk and resilience of urban communities and networks, earthquake engineering, random vibration, and statistical and machine learning for infrastructure uncertainty. He is active in major professional societies and serves as Editor-in-Chief of Structural Safety and on the editorial boards of several international journals.