Introduction

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I am an Associate Professor, on Tenure-Track, in the Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science within the School of Computing and Data Science at The University of Hong Kong (HKU). I am also an Associate of the Society of Actuaries (SOA).

My research areas are Actuarial Science, Financial Mathematics, and Quantitative Risk Management, with broad research directions, that include risk sharing and pooling, forward preferences and control strategies, life and retirement products, risk aggregation and resource allocation, artificial intelligence in insurance, as well as mitigating emerging and large-scale risks, recently focusing on cyber, pandemic, and weather-related risks. In general, I am interested in solving any timely and revolutionary decision-making problems, via data analytics, machine learning, optimization, and stochastic control. I received the SOA Actuarial Science Early Career Research Award in 2025, the Michael V. Colla Prize for Mathematics Related to Medicine from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) in 2022, and the Best of 2020 in the Annual Meeting of the Casualty Actuarial Society.

Prior to the current position at HKU, in 2021-2025, I was an Associate Professor in the Department of Actuarial Mathematics and Statistics at Heriot-Watt University; in 2018-2021, I was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mathematics and the Department of Statistics at UIUC, where I co-founded the Illinois Risk Lab; in 2017-2018, I was a J. L. Doob Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Mathematics at UIUC.

I was born and raised in Hong Kong, with the legally given name Wing Fung Chong (莊榮峰). I am also known as Alfred Chong, but I have been using my legally given name, Wing Fung Chong, for publication purposes. I hold a Ph.D. in Actuarial Science from HKU and King's College London, under the supervisions of Ka Chun Cheung and Gechun Liang.