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Graduate Students in Statistics & Actuarial Science

Actuarial Science - PhD

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  • Aoun, Bassam - Part time
    • baoun@
  • Cheung, Chi Kin Eric
    • MC 6221, Extension 33734, ckecheung@
  • Cong, Jianfa
    • MC 6149, Extension 36009, jcong@
    • Interests: Still exploring which fields I will work on in the upcoming years.
  • Ghossoub, Mario
    • MC 6102, Extension 36713, mghossou@
    • Interests: Microeconomic theory, decision theory, game theory, and applications to insurance and finance.
  • Ibrahim, Basil
    • MC 6115, Extension 32232, bwagih@
  • Ji, Min
    • MC 6154, Extension 36691, m3ji@
  • Marshall, Claymore
    • MC 6102, Extension 36713, cj2marshall@
    • Interests: Mortality forecasting, Valuation of embedded options inÊinsurance contracts,ÊPricing and hedging guarantees in variable annuities.
  • Qiu, Chao
    • MC 6115, Extension 32232, c2qiu@
    • Interests: Pricing and Hedging in incomplete markets.
  • Shang, Ying (Shining) - Part time
    • MC 6108, Extension 32076, yshang@
  • Sharara, Ishmael
    • MC 6102, Extension 36713, isharara@
    • Interests: Insurance company and pension fund solvency and risk management, investment and financial analysis, public insurance and pension systems.
  • Shi, Tianxiang (Tim)
    • MC 6108, Extension 32076, t5shi@
    • Interests: Risk Theory, Reinsurance, Modelling in insurance and finance.
  • Till, Matthew - Part time
    • mctill@
  • Wei, Wei
    • MC 6149, Extension 36009, w8wei@
    • Interests: Reinsurance for dependent risks,stochastic models in finance, ruin theory and risk management.
  • Woo, Jae-Kyung
    • MC 6221, Extension 33734, jkwoo@
  • Zhou, Rui
    • MC 6154, Extension 36691, r4zhou@
  • Zhu, Dian
    • MC 6154, Extension 36691, dzhu@

Actuarial Science - Master Mathematics

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  • Abaoud, Abdulsalam
    • MC 6127, Extension 37333, aabaoud@
  • Agarwal, Rachit
    • MC 6055, Extension 36606, r4agarwal@
    • Interests: Financial side of acutarial science.
  • Ali, Javid
    • MC 6080, Extension, j3ali@
  • Baroud, Hiba
    • MC 6145, Extension 33835, hbaroud@
    • Interests: Pension funds, Econometrics, Times Series, Longitudinal and Survival Data Analysis, Modelling and Estimation.
  • Chen, Xi
    • MC 6080, Extension 36113, x85chen@
  • Du, Chen (Will)
    • MC , Extension , c5du@
  • Feng, Ming Bin (Ben)
    • MC 6080, Extension 36113, mbfeng@
  • Fu, Qiang (Ben)
    • MC 6080, Extension 36113, q3fu@
  • Huang, Lin
    • MC 6055, Extension 36606, l38huang@
  • Kim, Jeesoo
    • MC 6055, Extension 36606, j14kim@
    • Interests: Risk/Ruin Theory
  • Kuttihassan, Murshid
    • MC 6080, Extension 36113, mkuttiha@
    • Interests: Risk/Ruin Theory
  • Lee, Jian Hau (Raymond)
    • MC 6080, Extension 36113, jh52lee@
    • Interests: Pricing and Hedging of Modern Insurance Products.
  • Li, Xiaqing
    • MC 6080, Extension 36113, x97li@
  • Lim, Cheng Mun
    • MC 6080, Extension 36113, cmlim@
    • Interests: Designing and pricing of mortality linked securities as well as modeling of mortality table.
  • Liu, Liang (Ryan)
    • MC 6080, Extension 36113, l63liang@
    • Interests: Corporate finance, Longevity risk management.
  • Liu, Xumeng (Meg)
    • MC 6080, Extension 36113, x33liu@
  • Lu, Shuo
    • s27lu@
  • Ma, Xin (Catherine)
    • MC 6080, Extension 36113, x32ma@
    • Interests: Pension and Monte Carlo simulation in insurance and finance.
  • Martinez, Amaya
    • MC 6080, Extension 36113, a44marti@
  • Qin, Yitian
    • MC 6080, Extension 36113, y6qin@
  • Redwood, Khary
    • MC 6080, Extension 36113, kredwood@
  • Sheng, Xiaokang (Victor)
    • MC 6080, Extension 36113, x2sheng@
    • Interests: Modeling and Risk Management of Modern Life Insurance, Modeling Interest Rate, Pricing and Hedging Financial Derivatives, Monte Carlo Simulation, Mortality Models and Longevity Risks.
  • Tang, Wen (Diana)
    • MC 6080, Extension 36113, w2tang@
    • Interests: Actuarial mathematics in life insurance, financial risk management
  • VanOoteghem, Tyler
    • t2vanooteghem@
  • Wong, Hiu Man Dora
    • MC 6080, Extension 36113, hm2wong@
    • Interests: Stochastic processes and mortality linked securities
  • Yang, Ying
    • MC 6080, Extension 36113, y78yang@
    • Interests: Empirical Likelihood, Asymptotic Theory and Probability.
  • Yao, Xiang (Roxanne)
    • MC 6080, Extension 36113, x23yao@
  • Zhan, Xueqin (Shirley)
    • MC 6145, Extension 33835, x2zhan@
  • Zhang, Mianzhao
    • MC 6080, Extension 36113, m67zhang@
    • Interests: Financial risk management,mathematical finance, mortality models and reinsurance.
  • Zhang, Yi (Joyce)
    • MC 6080, Extension 36113, y253zhang@
    • Interests: Longevity risk securitization, risk management for non-traditional insurance products and dependent risk modeling (Copula).
  • Zhu, Xi
    • x4zhu @

Masters Actuarial Science

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  • Brophy, Nancy
    • MC 6005, nbrophy@
  • Jo, Yong Hwa
    • MC 6005, yhjo@
  • Kim, Heejoo (June)
    • h57kim@
  • Mao, Liang (Jerry)
    • MC 6005, l2mao@
  • Runnalls, Brett
    • MC 6005, brunnalls@
  • Wu, Jonathon
    • MC 6005, jj8wu@
  • Yadav, Manish
    • MC 6005, myadav@

Biostatistics - PhD

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  • Ahmed, Rashid - Part time
    • BMH 2707, Extension 36632, r4ahmed@
  • Chen, Zhijian (Charlie)
    • MC 6081A , Extension 37329, z11chen@
  • Cuerden, Meaghan
    • MC 6113, Extension 36711, mscuerden@
  • Diao, Liqun
    • MC 6113, Extension 36711, l2diao@
  • Dong, Bin
    • MC 6107, Extension 36676, b2dong@
    • Interests: Develop statistical methodology in biostatistics with special interest in nonparametric estimation, empirical likelihood, survival analysis, copula model.
  • Li, Haocheng
    • MC 6225, Extension 36194, h59li@
  • Raffa, Jesse
    • MC 6223, Extension 37086, jdraffa@
  • Wu, Longyang
    • MC 6223, Extension 37086, lwu@

Biostatistics - Master Mathematics

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  • Bai, Chun
    • MC 6055, Extension 36606, cbai@
    • Interests: Still discovering what area my academic interests are in.
  • Brhane, Yonathon
    • ybrhane@
  • Cheng, Lu
    • MC 6080, Extension 36113, l27cheng@
  • Cheng, Pan Pan (Joshua)
    • MC 6080, Extension 36113, ppcheng@
  • Dawoud, Dina
    • MC 6099, Extension 36681, ddawoud@
    • Interests: Still discovering what area of Biostatistics my interests are in.

Statistics - PhD

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  • Barfoot, Patricia
    • MC 6108, Extension 32076, plcooper@
  • Boruvka, Audrey
    • MC 6081B, Extension 37331, ajboruvka@
  • Chen, Bei
    • MC 6222, Extension 32076, bchen@
  • Choi, Ji
    • jechoi@
  • Cigsar, Candemir
    • MC 6222, Extension 33756, ccigsar@
    • Interests: The analysis of recurrent event data, the analysis of life history data, biostatistics, system reliability, robustness, goodness-of-fit testing.
  • Danila, Oana
    • MC 6081B, Extension 37331, omdanila@
  • Hosseinkashi, Yasaman
    • MC 6150, Extension 36010, yhosseinkashi@
    • Interests:Functional data analysis (FDA) and its applications in 3D binary images and handwriting analysis (prior to PhD), Modeling and statistical inference on dynamic random graphs and its environmental and epidemiological applications. Recently I have applied the dynamic graph models in analyzing the 2001 foot and mouth outbreak data in the UK.
  • Huang, Zhiyue (Robin)
    • MC 6108, Extension 32076, z23huang@
  • Lai, Man Po (Jennifer)
    • mplai@
  • Mariaca, Hajducek C. Dagmar
    • MC 6081B, Extension 37331, cdmariac@
    • Interests: Estensions of survival and event history analysis theory to the context of longitudinal survey data.
  • Maroufy, Vahed
    • MC 6116, Extension 36712, vmaroufy@
    • Interests: Bayesian Inference ( specially bayesian sample size determination) and also Mixture Models (Local mixture models).
  • Marshall, William
    • MC 6150, Extension 36010, wjmarshall@
  • McIsaac, Michael
    • MC 6150, Extension 36010, mamcisaac@
  • Men, Zhongxian (Chris)
    • MC 6081A, Extension 37329, zmen@
  • Nazeri, Rad Narges
    • MC 6113, Extension 36711, nnazerirad@
  • Ramezan, Reza
    • MC 6220, Extension 33715, rramezan@
  • Ren, Zhaoxia
    • MC 6220, Extension 33715, zren@
  • Waddell, Adrian
    • MC 6116, Extension 36712, arwaddell@
    • Interests: Data Visualization, Data Mining and Computational Statistics.
  • Wang, Yuanxiang (Shawn)
    • MC 6116, y375wang@
  • Xiong, Xiaoqin
    • MC 6225, Extension 36194, xxiong@
    • Interests: Longitudinal modeling, classification and regression tree based method for longitudinal data, latent model, joint modelling for longitudindal and survival data.
  • Zhang, Yanqiao (George)
    • MC 6115, Extension 32232, y52zhang@
    • Interests: Stochastic processes with applications in finance, financial econometrics, interest rate modeling.
  • Zhang, Yuxin (Sheena)
    • MC 6107, Extension 36676, y74zhang@
  • Zhao, Hui (Hudson)
    • MC 6107, Extension 36676, h6zhao@

Statistics - Master Mathematics

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  • Chen, Min
    • MC 6129, Extension 33812, m12chen@
  • Chen, Qiaoling (Joyce)
    • MC 6080, Extension 36113, q28chen@
  • Joas, Anthony
    • MC 6099, Extension 36681, ajoas@
  • Karim, Karim
    • MC 6080, Extension 36113, k2karim@
  • Liang, Jiaxi
    • MC 6055, Extension 36606, j24liang@
  • Shu, Jung-Huei (Jay)
    • MC 6129, Extension 33812, j2shu@
  • Wu, Zhenghui
    • MC 6099, Extension 36681, zhwu@
  • Yan, Ying
    • MC 6080, Extension 36113, y8yan@
  • Ye, Zhou (Laura)
    • MC 6099, Extension 36681, z29ye@
    • Interests: Data mining and machine learning; Mathematic models in Economic and Finance; Time series analysis.
      I also did some research project concerned about sampling and survey.
  • Yu, Lisha
    • MC 6080, Extension 36113, lyu@
  • Zaman, Saad
    • szaman@
    • Interests: Applied Probability and Statistics, Time Series, and Change-Point Analysis.
  • Zhong ,Yujie
    • MC 6080, Extension 36113, zyujie@
    • Interests: Survival analysis
  • Yan, Jin
    • MC 6080, Extension 36113, j7yan@

Statistics - Computing Mathematics

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  • Wang, Jiheng
    • MC 6144, Extension 36729, j237wang@
  • Yao, Yao
    • MC 6144, Extension 36729, y2yao@

Masters Quantative Finance

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  • Akeredolu, Rotimi
    • MC6055, Extension 36606, oakeredolu@
  • Cao, Wen (Michael)
    • MC 6055, Extension 36606, w7cao@
    • Interests: Areas related to finance and statistics, such as portfolio management, investment research, statistical finance, derivative pricing, and behavioral finance.
  • Chuah, JueJun (Bryan)
    • MC 6205, Extension 36697, jjchuah@
  • Cui, Zhenyu (Rocky)
    • MC 6205, Extension 36697, z4cui@
  • El-Khatib, Mayar
    • MC 6127, Extension 37333, melkhati@
  • Freeman, Brendon
    • MC 6055, Extension 36606, bfreeman@
  • Gornall, Will
    • MC 6055, Extension 36606, wrgornall@
    • Interests:Theoretical finance. Recently focusing on financial market regulation and household finance.
  • Jiang, Ning (Mike)
    • MC 6205, Extension 36697, m3jiang@
  • Jin, Hyunjong
    • MC 6055, Extension 36606, hjjin@
  • Li, Guangrui (Garry)
    • MC 6205, Extension 36697, g7li@
  • Ling, Yiwei (Alex)
    • MC 6055, Extension 36606, y6ling@
    • Interests: Is in derivative pricing, quantitative risk management, portfolio optimization.
  • Liu ,Hailong
    • MC 6080, Extension 36113, h59liu@
  • Mayer, Josh
    • MC 6080, Extension 36113, j2mayer@
  • Munawar, Hooria
    • MC 6055, Extension 36606, hmunawar@
  • Nguyen, Jeff
    • MC 6055, Extension 36606, j26nguyen@
    • Interests: Portfolio/risk management, interest rate derivatives, computational finance.
  • Ruest, Eric
    • MC 6205, Extension 36697, eruest@
  • Sun, Wei (Chris)
    • MC 6055, Extension 36606, w26sun@
  • Tazhitdinova, Alisa
    • MC 6080, Extension 36113, atazhitdinova@
  • Wang, Yiqi (Elsie)
    • MC 6205, Extension 36697, y293wang@
  • Wisebourt, Shaul
    • MC 6205, Extension 36697, sswisebourt@
    • Interests: The area of quantitative finance, in particular, I use statistical modeling to learn useful information from tick-by-tick and limit order book data using Hierarchical Hidden Markov Models (HMMs) in Dynamic Bayesian Network (DBN) setting.
  • Zhang, Yunuan
    • MC 6080, Extension 36113, y294zhang@
  • Zhou, Denglin
    • MC 6055, Extension 36606, dzhou@


Last Modified:  Wednesday 12 May 2010