Assistant Professor
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Zhiyu (Frank) Quan is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Mathematics of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He holds a Ph.D. in Actuarial Science from the University of Connecticut. Before joining Illinois, he worked in a cutting-edge Insurtech company as a R & D data scientist developing data-driven solutions for major insurance companies. He has a broad spectrum of research interests in data science applications in insurance such as tree-based models, natural language processing, deep learning, and applies his actuarial expertise to build predictive models for claim research, rate making, etc. His research projects are driven by real-life data and are inspired from collaborations with Insurtech and insurance companies. Besides, he is a faculty advisor of the Illinois Risk Lab, which facilitates research activities that integrate academic training with practical problem-solving in real business settings. He has received the Arnold O. Beckman Research Award and has been awarded by the Society of Actuaries Research Institute.
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R-1 - Collaborative Modeling Without Sharing Data
Tuesday, March 19, 2024
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