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Education

  • 2021-Present
    Ph.D., Mathematics with a Concentration in Actuarial Science and Risk Analytics.
    University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA.
  • 2019-2021
    M.S., Actuarial Science.
    University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA.
  • 2016-2020
    B.S., Mathematics and Applied Mathematics.
    Nankai University, China.

Honors and Awards

  • 2024
    • James C. Hickman Scholar Doctoral Stipend, Society of Actuaries.
    • PARM Summer Research Fellowship, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
  • 2023
    • Esther Portnoy Actuarial Science Scholarship, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
    • Teachers Ranked as Excellent by Their Students, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
  • 2022
    • The 57th Actuarial Research Conference Presentation Prize, Society of Actuaries.
    • Illinois Risk Lab Award, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
    • State Farm Actuarial Science Scholarship, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
  • 2021
    • The 56th Actuarial Research Conference Presentation Prize, Society of Actuaries.

Presentations

  • 2024
    NLP-Powered Repository and Search Engine for Academic Papers, A Case Study on Cyber Risk Literature with CyLit
    • The 27th International Congress on Insurance, Mathematics and Economics, Depaul University, Chicago, USA.
  • 2023
    NLP-Powered Repository and Search Engine for Academic Papers, A Case Study on Cyber Risk Literature with CyLit.
    • The 58th Actuarial Research Conference, Drake University, Des Moines, USA.
  • 2022
    Improving Business Insurance Loss Models by Leveraging InsurTech Innovation
    • National Center for Supercomputing Applications Student Conference, University of Illinois Urbana- Champaign, Champaign, USA.
  • 2022
    Improving Business Insurance Loss Models by Leveraging InsurTech Innovation
    • The 58th Actuarial Research Conference, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, USA.
  • 2022
    Improving Business Insurance Loss Models by Leveraging InsurTech Innovation
    • The Risk Analytics Symposium 2022, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, USA.
  • 2021
    Imbalanced Learning using Actuarial Modified Loss Functions in Tree-based Models
    • The 2nd Waterloo Student Conference in Statistics, Actuarial Science and Finance, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Canada.
  • 2021
    Imbalanced Learning using Actuarial Modified Loss Functions in Tree-based Models
    • The 56th Actuarial Research Conference, DePaul University, Chicago, USA.
  • 2021
    Imbalanced Learning using Actuarial Modified Loss Functions in Tree-based Models
    • The 24th International Congress on Insurance, Mathematics and Economics, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and Pennsylvania State University in United States, Ulm University in Germany, and the University of New South Wales (UNSW Sydney) in Australia.

Illinois Risk Lab

  • 2022
    • Spatiotemporal Modeling on Foot Traffic Data to Unlock Auto Insurance Geo-risks
    • COUNTRY Financial Business Owner's Policy (BOP) Loss Predictive Model
  • 2021
    • COUNTRY Financial Business Owner's Policy (BOP) Loss Predictive Model
    • Pekin Insurance General Liability Insurance (GL) Loss Predictive Modeling
  • 2020
    • AI-Powered Lifecycle Financial Planning
    • Measuring Intra-day Systemic Risk in High-frequency Order Books