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Jungfrau, Switzerland, 2013

Curriculum Vitae

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Academic Appointments

2023.05 - present Canada Research Chair (Tier 1) in Quantitative Risk Management, NSERC
2022.07 - present Professor, Statistics and Actuarial Science, University of Waterloo
2021.07 - 2023.06 Sun Life Fellow, University of Waterloo
2021.07 - 2023.06 Associate Chair - Research, Statistics and Actuarial Science, University of Waterloo
2018.07 - 2023.06 University Research Chair, University of Waterloo
2017.07 - 2022.06 Associate Professor, Statistics and Actuarial Science, University of Waterloo
2012.08 - 2017.06 Assistant Professor, Statistics and Actuarial Science, University of Waterloo

Education

2009.08 - 2012.05 Ph.D. Mathematics, Georgia Institute of Technology. Advisor: Liang Peng
2006.09 - 2009.06 M.S. Financial Mathematics, Peking University. Advisor: Jingping Yang
2002.09 - 2006.06 B.S. Mathematics, Peking University

Academic Supervision   [Group Webpage]

Current postdoctoral fellows and PhD students

Yinhuan Li Postdoc 2024 - 0000
Xiyue Han Postdoc 2024 - 0000 [with A. Schied]
Qinyu Wu Postdoc 2023 - 0000
Benjamin Côté PhD ActSc 2024 - 0000 [with A. Schied]
Jingcheng Yu PhD ActSc 2024 - 0000
Muqiang Huang PhD ActSc 2023 - 0000
Jisun Choi PhD ActSc 2023 - 0000 [with B. Feng]
Qinghua Ren PhD ActSc 2022 - 0000 [with M. Ghossoub]
Zachary Van Oosten PhD ActSc 2022 - 0000 [with Y. Shen]

Past postdoctoral fellows and PhD students

(Lecturer positions are tenure track and research active in the UK and Australian systems.)

Christopher Blier-Wong Postdoc 2023 - 2024
Assistant Professor, Department of Statistical Sciences
University of Toronto, Canada (2024)
Samuel Gyamerah Postdoc 2023 - 2024
[with A. Schied]
Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics
Toronto Metropolitan University, Canada (2024)
Jean-Gabriel Lauzier Postdoc 2021 - 2024
Assistant Professor, Department of Economics
Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada (2024)
Yang Liu Postdoc 2021 - 2022
[with A. Schied]
Assistant Professor, School of Science and Engineering
Chinese University of Hong Kong Shenzhen, China (2023)
Xia Han Postdoc 2020 - 2022
[with D. Landriault]
Assistant Professor, School of Mathematical Sciences
Nankai University, China (2022)
Tolulope Fadina Postdoc 2019 - 2020
Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA (2023)
Peng Liu Postdoc 2018 - 2020
[with A. Schied]
Lecturer, School of Mathematics, Statistics and Actuarial Science
University of Essex, UK (2020)
Daniel Linders Postdoc 2015 - 2015
[with F. Yang]
Assistant Professor, School of Economics
University of Amsterdam, Netherlands (2019)
Tiantian Mao Postdoc 2014 - 2015
[with J. Cai and D. Landriault]
Assistant Professor, School of Management
University of Science and Technology of China, China (2015)
Zhanyi Jiao PhD ActSc 2020 - 2024
[with J. Cai]
Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics
Illinois State University, USA (2024)
Liyuan Lin PhD ActSc 2020 - 2024
[with A. Schied]
Senior Lecturer, Monash Business School
Monash University, Australia (2024)
Qiuqi Wang PhD ActSc 2019 - 2023
Assistant Professor, Robinson College of Business
Georgia State University, USA (2023)
Yuyu Chen PhD ActSc 2018 - 2022
[with K. S. Tan]
Lecturer, Department of Economics
University of Melbourne, Australia (2022)
Yunran Wei PhD ActSc 2015 - 2019
[with G. Willmot]
Assistant Professor, School of Mathematics and Statistics
Carleton University, Canada (2021)
Jie Shen PhD Statistics 2014 - 2018
[with Y. Shen]
Risk Modelling Researcher
Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, Canada (2018)
Haiyan Liu PhD ActSc 2013 - 2017
[with J. Cai]
Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics
Michigan State University, USA (2017)

Editorial Duties

2018.01 - present Co-Editor, ASTIN Bulletin - The Journal of the International Actuarial Association
2016.08 - present Co-Editor, European Actuarial Journal
2024.10 - present Associate Editor, Finance and Stochastics
2024.01 - present Associate Editor, Operations Research
2023.01 - present Associate Editor, Mathematics of Operations Research
2022.01 - present Associate Editor, Canadian Journal of Statistics
2020.01 - present Associate Editor, Journal of Mathematical Economics
2016.07 - present Associate Editor, Acta Mathematicae Applicatae Sinica (English Series)
2014.12 - present Editorial Advisory Board, Dependence Modeling

Awards and Honours

2023 Best Paper Award on Financial Engineering in Operations Research, INFORMS
2023 Tier 1 Canada Research Chair, NSERC
2022 Fellow of IMS, Institute of Mathematical Statistics
2021 SOA Actuarial Science Early Career Research Award, Society of Actuaries
2018 Discovery Accelerator Supplement Award, NSERC
2018 University Research Chair, University of Waterloo
2017 The Faculty of Mathematics Golden Jubilee Research Excellence Award, University of Waterloo
2017 Annual Department Teaching Award, Statistics and Actuarial Science, University of Waterloo
2012 Laha Travel Award 2012, Institute of Mathematical Statistics
2011 Bob Price Fellowship, School of Mathematics, Georgia Tech

Media Coverage

2021.11 An interview with Ruodu Wang in Expanding Horizons published by the Society of Actuaries
2020.04 Riskier CLOs get big boost from S&P in ‘new ratings shopping’, Bloomberg

Conference Organizing

2024.05 Oberwolfach Workshop on Game-theoretic Statistical Inference, Oberwolfach, Germany
2023.04 3rd Waterloo Conference in Statistics, Actuarial Science and Finance, Waterloo, Canada
2022.10 INFORMS Annual Meeting (Co-Chair, Finance Cluster), Indianapolis, USA
2022.10 3rd Waterloo Student Conference in Statistics, Actuarial Science and Finance, Waterloo, Canada
2022.07 International Conference on Robust Statistics, Waterloo, Canada
2022.06 INFORMS/CORS International Conference (Chair, Finance Cluster), Vancouver, Canada
2021.11 2nd Waterloo Student Conference in Statistics, Actuarial Science and Finance, Waterloo, Canada
2019.04 1st Waterloo Conference in Statistics, Actuarial Science and Finance (Chair), Waterloo, Canada
2017.09 Workshop on Risk Measurement and Regulatory Issues in Business, Montreal, Canada
2016.08 Random Complex Structures and Data Analysis in Finance, Beijing, China
2016.02 4th Québec-Ontario Workshop on Insurance Mathematics, Waterloo, Canada
2012.04 6th Annual Graduate Student Probability Conference, Georgia Tech, Atlanta, USA
2011.04 5th Annual Graduate Student Probability Conference, Georgia Tech, Atlanta, USA

Peer-review and Evaluation Service

Number of papers reviewed: 208 for 77 journals
Number of research grants reviewed: 16 for 9 funding agencies
Number of tenure and promotion letters written: 11 for 11 universities

Invited Presentations

Number of invited academic presentations: 200 in 15 countries (details in the CV)

Keynote and Special Addresses

2023.10 Keynote Speaker, 2023 CSIAM Conference on Actuarial Theory and Applications
2021.08 Keynote Speaker, 56th Actuarial Research Conference
2021.07 Keynote Speaker, 24th International Congress on Insurance: Mathematics and Economics
2018.09 Keynote Speaker, 4th European Actuarial Journal Meeting

Publications and Teaching

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