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Research

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Refereed Journals and Transactions (published/accepted)

  1. AlBahar, A., Kim, I., Wang, X., and Yue X.(2022), “Physics-Constrained Bayesian Optimization “, IEEE ,Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, 2022, doi: 10.1109/TASE.2022.3200376.
  2. Lee, C., Wang, X. and Yue X. (2021),  “Failure-averse Active Learning for Physics-constrained Systems”,IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, 2022, doi: 10.1109/TASE.2022.3213827.
  3. Hou, Y., Wang, X. (2021), “Extremes and Inferences for Tail Gini Functions with Applications to Tail Gini Coefficient and Gini Shortfall.”Journal of the American Statistical Association. 116(535), 1428-1443.
  4. Hou, Y., Wang, X. (2019), “Nonparametric inference for distortion risk measures on tail regions.” Insurance: Mathematics and Economics 89, 92-110.
  5. Wang, X., Liu, Q. Yan, Hou. And Peng, L. (2018), “Inference and Sensitivity Analysis of Haezendonck-Goovaerts Risk Measure for Dependence sequence” Scandinavian Actuarial Journal, 1-20.
  6. Leng, X., Peng, L., Wang, X. and Zhou, C. (2018), “Endpoint estimation for observations with normal measurement errors,” Extremes
  7. Liu, Q., Peng, L. and Wang, X. (2017), “Haezendonck-Goovaerts risk measure with a heavy tailed loss,” Insurance: Mathematics and Economics 76, 28–47.
  8. Wang, X. and Peng, L. (2016), “Inference for intermediate Haezendonck-Goovaerts risk measure,” Insurance: Mathematics and Economics 68, 231–240. 
  9. Peng, L., Wang, X. and Zheng, Y. (2015), “Empirical likelihood inference for Haezendonck-Goovaerts risk measure,” European Actuarial Journal 5, 427–445.

Honors,  Awards, Recognitions

  • Best Paper Finalist in the theoretical track for the 17th INFORMS Workshop on Data Mining and Decision Analytics (2022)
  • 2022 National Science Foundation standard award (NSF: 2153329) , $167,923 (2022-2024)
  • 2021 Illinois State University- Pre-tenure Faculty Initiative Grant (PFIG) (2021)
  • 2020 Women in Statistics and Data Science (WSDS) Early-Career Award (2020)
  • 2019 Fall Technical Conference FTC Early Career Grant Awards (2019)
  • 2019 Symposium on Data Science & Statistics – Early Career Travel Award (2019)
  • 2019 Illinois State University- New Faculty Initiative Grant (NFIG) (2019)
  • SOA James C. Hickman Scholar Award $20,000, Society of Actuaries (SOA) (2017-2019)
  • CEAR scholar, Center for the Economic Analysis of Risk (CEAR) (2016-2018)
  • C.V. Starr Scholarship (2016-2018)
  • Leyton Hunter Fund Fellowship, Georgia State University (2015-2018)
  • Helen C. Leith Scholarship, Helen C. Leith Foundation (2015-2018)
  • S.S Huebner Foundation Scholarship, S.S Huebner Foundation (2014-2018)
  • Ph.D. Fellowships, Georgia State University (2014-2018)

Presentations

Conference Presentations (Selected)

  • 2022 Women in Statistics and Data Science (WSDS) (Section Chair)   (Oct. 2022)
  • 2022 Actuarial Research Conference (ARC), Champaign, IL (Aug. 2022)
  • 25th International Congress on Insurance: Mathematics and Economics. Virtual (Section Chair)(Jul. 2022)
  • 2022 ICSA Applied Statistics Symposium (Jun. 2022)
  • 25th International Congress on Insurance: Mathematics and Economics. Virtual (Section Chair)(Jul. 2022)
  •        IMS-China International Conference on Statistics and Probability, Dalian, China. (Section Chair) (July. 2019)                           
  • 2018 Ph.D. Student Research Symposium at University of Georgia (UGA) (Feb. 2018)
  • Perspectives on Actuarial Risks in Talks of Young Researchers, Ascona, Switzerland (Jan. 2017)
  • 20th International Congress on Insurance: Mathematics and Economics. Atlanta, GA  (Jul. 2016)

Invited Talks (Selected)

  • 2022 Extreme Value Theory and Quantitively Risk Management Symposium (Virtual) (Aug. 2022)
  • University of Waterloo Risk Management Weekly Seminar (May 2020)
  • Department of Mechanism and Engineering, Shanghai Jiaotong University, China (July 2019)
  • 2019 IMS-China International Conference on Statistics and Probability, China (July 2019)
  • 2019Department of Mathematics, North Carolina A&T State University, USA (May 2018)
  •  Department of Mathematics, Illinois State University, USA (May 2018)
  • Department of Mathematics & Statistics, University of Minnesota Duluth, USA (Feb. 2018 )   
  • Department of Mathematics, San Jose State University, USA (Feb. 2018)
  • Department of Mathematics, Middle Tennessee State University, USA (Feb. 2018)
  • Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science, University of Waterloo, Canada (Jan. 2018)
  • Department of Mathematics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), USA (Jan. 2018)
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