Bin Zou

Associate Professor

Contact Information
Emailbin.zou@uconn.edu
Mailing Address341 Mansfield Road, U1009, Storrs, CT 06269
Office LocationMONT 428
Office HoursM 1-2 (in person) W 10-11 (virtual)
CoursesMATH 2210, 3639
Linkhttps://sites.google.com/site/zoubin019/
About:

Short bio

I am currently an associate professor in the Department of Mathematics, with a courtesy joint appointment in the Department of Statistics, at the University of Connecticut, where I joined as an assistant professor in Fall 2017. Previously, I was an acting assistant professor in the Department of Applied Mathematics at the University of Washington (Sep. 2016 to Aug. 2017) and a postdoc in the Department of Mathematics at the Technical University of Munich (May 2015 to Sep. 2016). I obtained my PhD in Mathematical Finance in 2015, under the supervision of Abel Cadenillas, from the University of Alberta. Both my B.S. and M.S. in Mathematics are from Beijing Institute of Technology.

Research Interests

I have broad interests in actuarial science and financial mathematics. A central topic of my research studies stochastic optimal decision-making problems that arise from insurance, finance, and operations research. In this direction, I have worked extensively on optimal (re)insurance, optimal investment-consumption, optimal dividends, and optimal loss reporting. Recently, my research has also expanded to data analytics in insurance, decentralized finance, and sports betting.

Current Lab

I am supervising one Postdoc and three PhDs at UConn Math:

  • Jinghui Chen (postdoc), risk sharing in P2P insurance markets
  • Yi Wu (5th), strategic loss reporting
  • Shansong Huang (4th), optimal insurance under claim habit
  • Thu Nguyen (2nd), decentralized insurance

Recent Publications (since 2021)

(Please visit https://sites.google.com/site/zoubin019/research for a full list of publications and working papers.)