Additional Campus Affiliations
Assistant Professor, Mathematics
Assistant Professor, Statistics
Assistant Professor, National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA)
Office of Risk Management and Insurance Research (ORMIR) Faculty Fellow, Finance
Recent Publications
Quan, Z., Hu, C., Dong, P., & Valdez, E. A. (Accepted/In press). Improving Business Insurance Loss Models by Leveraging InsurTech Innovation. North American Actuarial Journal. https://doi.org/10.1080/10920277.2024.2400648
Zhang, L., Hu, C., & Quan, Z. (Accepted/In press). NLP-Powered Repository and Search Engine for Academic Papers: A Case Study on Cyber Risk Literature with CyLit. North American Actuarial Journal. https://doi.org/10.1080/10920277.2024.2416903
Quan, Z., Wang, Z., Gan, G., & Valdez, E. A. (2023). On hybrid tree-based methods for short-term insurance claims. Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences, 37(2), 597-620. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0269964823000074
Hu, C., Quan, Z., & Chong, W. F. (2022). Imbalanced learning for insurance using modified loss functions in tree-based models. Insurance: Mathematics and Economics, 106, 13-32. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.insmatheco.2022.04.010
Quan, Z., Gan, G., & Valdez, E. (2022). Tree-based models for variable annuity valuation: Parameter tuning and empirical analysis. Annals of Actuarial Science, 16(1), 95-118. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1748499521000075