Short Bio

2009 PhD, University of Wisconsin-Madison

07/2023 – present Full Professor, Wisconsin School of Business, University of Wisconsin-Madison

07/2023 – present Scientist, Creative Destruction Lab

07/2017 – present Charles & Laura Albright Professor of Business and Finance

07/2017 – 06/2023 Associate Professor, Wisconsin School of Business, University of Wisconsin-Madison

05/2013 – 06/2017 Assistant Professor, Wisconsin School of Business, University of Wisconsin-Madison

08/2009 – 04/2013 Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science, Northern Illinois University

Associate, Casualty Actuarial Society

Fellow, Society of Actuaries

Actuarial data science

dependence models and multivariate analysis,

insurance and risk analytics

probabilistic forecasting and predictive modeling

machine learning and statistical learning

Intensive longitudinal data models 

2023, CAS Ratemaking Prize, Casualty Actuarial Society, for the best paper on ratemaking in property-casualty insurance. The paper “Non-Life Insurance Risk Classification Using Categorical Embedding” is coauthored with K. Shi and published in North American Actuarial Journal.

2022, ARIA-CAS Award, American Risk and Insurance Association and Casualty Actuarial Society, for a paper published in ARIA journals in a given year that provides most valuable contribution to casualty actuarial science. The paper “Stochastic loss reserving: a new perspective from a Dirichlet model” is coauthored with K. Sriram and published in Journal of Risk and Insurance.

2020, ASTIN Best Paper Award, International Actuarial Association, the paper “Joint model prediction and application to individual-level loss reserving” is coauthored with E. W. Frees and A.N. Okine, and published in ASTIN Bulletin.

2018, ARIA-CAS Award, American Risk and Insurance Association and Casualty Actuarial Society, for a paper published in ARIA journals in a given year that provides most valuable contribution to casualty actuarial science. The paper “A multivariate analysis of intercompany loss triangles” is published in Journal of Risk and Insurance.

2018, Charles A. Hachemeister Prize, Casualty Actuarial Society, for the best paper published by the International Actuarial Association in a given year. The paper “Territorial risk classification using spatially dependent frequency-severity models” is coauthored with K. Shi and published in ASTIN Bulletin.

2018, Winner of 2018 Young Researchers Competition, Casualty Actuarial Society.

2016 – 2017, Wisconsin Naming Partners Fellow, Wisconsin School of Business, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

2016, Erwin A. Gaumnitz Research Award (Junior Faculty), Wisconsin School of Business, University of Wisconsin-Madison, for excellence in research for tenure-track faculty in a given year.

2014, Ronald Bornhuetter Loss Reserve Prize, Casualty Actuarial Society, for the best paper in the stochastic loss reserving literature in a given year. The paper “Credibility in loss reserving” is coauthored with B.M. Hartman published in North American Actuarial Journal.

2010, Charles A. Hachemeister Prize, Casualty Actuarial Society, for the best paper published by the International Actuarial Association in a given year. The paper “Actuarial applications of a hierarchical insurance claims model” is coauthored with E.W. Frees, E.A. Valdez and published in ASTIN Bulletin.

2018 - Present Associate Editor, Insurance Mathematics and Economics

2018 - Present Editorial Board, Dependence Modeling

2020 - Present Editor-in-Chief, Variance 

2021 - Present Editorial Board, ASTIN Bulletin

2023 - Present Associate Editor, Annals of Actuarial Science

2023 - Present Co-Editor, North American Actuarial Journal