Qihe Tang

Qihe Tang SHARP Professor, UNSW Sydney, 2017- Editor of Insurance: Mathematics and Economics, 2017- After earning his PhD in statistics from the University of Science and Technology of China in 2001, he has worked at different places around the world including the University of Hong Kong (2001), the University of Amsterdam (2002-2004), Concordia University (2004-2005), and the University of Iowa (2006-2019). At the University of Iowa, he was promoted to Full Professor in 2012 and conferred an Endowed Chair in 2014. He joined UNSW Business School under the SHARP (Strategic Hires and Retention Pathways) scheme in July 2017. His expertise span insurance, finance, and risk management. Recently, he has been working on various emerging topics including: Catastrophe risk management [awarded ARC DP200101859] Systemic risk and financial networks [awarded ARC DP220100090] Decision making under uncertainty [awarded ARC DP250100078] Pricing in incomplete markets Climate change and insurance He has been Principal Investigator/Lead Chief Investigator of various major external grants, including (in reverse order): 3 from ARC of Australia, 1 from NSF of the US, 2 CAE research grants from the Society of Actuaries, and 1 from NSERC of Canada. His research has resulted in an H-index of 44 according to Google Scholar. He has graduated over a dozen PhD students who are now working in academia or industry around the world. Currently, he serves as an Editor of the journal Insurance: Mathematics and Economics, and an Associate Editor of several other journals including Applied Stochastic Models in Business and Industry and Science China Mathematics. He is an Elected Member of the International Statistical Institute. Internally at UNSW Sydney, he serves as Co-Director of the Innovations in Risk, Insurance and Superannuation (IRIS) Knowledge Hub. risks, insurance, operations research & management science, finance, credit risk, applied probability, statistics, climate change