Department of Mathematical Sciences
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
100 Institute Road
Worcester, MA 01609
Office: Stratton Hall 305D
Phone: (508) 831-6137 (Office)
Email: gwang2 at wpi dot edu
My research interest focuses on stochastic analysis and mathematical finance. Here is my CV and ReserachGate profile.
I have some research funding for PhD students. Contact me if interested.
The Financial Mathematics and Stochastic Analysis Seminar at WPI in Spring 2024 is scheduled at Thursday 11 am - 12 pm Olin Hall 218 in C term and Salisbury Labs 011 in D term.
Upcoming Activity
Employment
Associate Professor, Department of Mathematical Sciences, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, July 2021 - present
Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematical Sciences, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, July 2015 - June 2021
Postdoctoral Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics, University of Michigan, September 2013 - June 2015
Postdoctoral Associate, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Boston University, June - August 2013
Education
Ph.D. in Mathematics (Advisor: Paolo Guasoni), Boston University, 2013
M.S. in Mathematical Finance with High Honors, Boston University, 2010
B.S. in Applied Mathematics, Peking University, 2007
Research
Publications
Fund Managers' Competition for Investment Flows based on Relative Performance (with Jiaxuan Ye), Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications, 198 (2023), No. 2, 605 - 643. [Article] [SSRN]
Performance Fees with Stochastic Benchmark, SIAM Journal on Financial Mathematics, 13 (2022), No. 2, 619 - 652. [Article] [SSRN]
Optimal Fee Structure of Variable Annuities (with Bin Zou), Insurance: Mathematics and Economics, 101 Part B (2021), 587-601. [Article ][SSRN]
Sharing Profits in the Sharing Economy. (with Paolo Guasoni), SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization, 58 (2020), No. 6, 3559–3585. [Article] [SSRN]
Consumption in Incomplete Markets. (with Paolo Guasoni), Finance and Stochastics, 24 (2020), No. 2, 383-422. [Article] [SSRN]
Exit problems as the generalized solutions of Dirichlet problems (with Yuecai Han and Qingshuo Song), SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization, 57 (2019), No. 4, 2392-2414. [Article] [ArXiv]
Should Commodity Investors Follow Commodities' Prices? (with Paolo Guasoni and Antonella Tolomeo), SIAM Journal on Financial Mathematics, 10 (2019) No. 2, 466-490.[Article] [SSRN]
Consumption and Investment with Stochastic Interest Risk (with Paolo Guaosni), Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications, 476 (2019) No. 1, 215-239. [Article] [SSRN]
Quantile Hedging in a Semi-Static Market with Model Uncertainty (with Erhan Bayraktar), Mathematical Methods of Operations Research, 87 (2018) No. 2, 197-227. [Article] [SSRN]
Hedge and Mutual Funds' Fees and the Separation of Private Investments (with Paolo Guasoni), Finance and Stochastics, 19 (2015) No. 3, 473-507. [Article][SSRN].
Preprints
Ph.D. Thesis
Teaching
MA 1021 Calculus I, E2 Term 2020, E1 Term 2021, E1 Term 2022
MA 1022 Calculus II, A Term 2016, B Term 2022
MA 1023 Calculus III, E2 Term 2019
MA 2621 Probability for Applications, E1 Term 2017, A Term 2021, C Term 2022, E1 Term 2023, B Term 2023
MA 2631 Probability, A Term 2017, A Term 2018, D Term 2020, D Term 2021, D Term 2022, A Term 2023
MA 4237 Probabilistic Methods in Operations Research, B Term 2019
MA 571 Financial Mathematics I, Fall 2015, Fall 2016, Fall 2017, Fall 2021
MA 572 Financial Mathematics II, Spring 2018, Spring 2020, Spring 2021
MA 574 Portfolio Valuation and Risk Management, Fall 2018