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Clara Wang

Assistant Professor
Mathematics
Office
STV Stevenson Hall 329a
Office Hours
Wednesday 1:00-3:00 PM (Zoom) or by appointment

309(438)7302
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Biography

Xing Wang is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mathematics at Illinois State University since Aug 2024. She received her Ph.D. in Risk Management and Insurance in J. Mack Robinson College of Business from Georgia State University where she also served as an instructor for course Risk Modeling during her Ph.D. period. She received M.S. in Statistics from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 2014 and a B.S. in Mathematics from Tsinghua University in 2013. She is the James C. Hickman Scholar from the year 2017 and was supported by the Society of Actuaries during her Ph.D. research in Actuarial Science.

Current Courses

383.001Actuarial Models III

353.001Regression And Time Series Analysis

383.001Actuarial Models III

280.001Financial Mathematics

353.001Regression And Time Series Analysis

Teaching Interests & Areas

Actuarial Science
Finance
Data Analysis
Applied Statistics

Research Interests & Areas

Xing Wang's research interests include risk measure, mortality, annuities and their statistical inference. Her work focus on statistical inference about risk measures under the heavy-tailed losses and the valuation processes for the large portfolios of the variable annuities.

Ph D Risk Management and Insurance

Georgia State University
Atlanta, GA, USA

MS Statistics

Georgia Institute of Technology

BS Mathematics

Tsinghua University
China

Best Paper Finalist in the theoretical track for the 17th INFORMS Workshop on Data Mining and Decision Analytics

Informs
2022

2022 National Science Foundation standard award (NSF: 2153329)

National Science Foundation
2022

Women in Statistics and Data Science (WSDS) Early-Career Award

American Statistical Association
2020

Fall Technical Conference FTC Early Career Grant Awards

ASQ Statistics Division
2019

Symposium on Data Science & Statistics – Early Career Travel Award

American Statistical Association
2019

James C. Hickman Scholar Award $20,000, Society of Actuaries

Society of Actuaries (SOA)
2018

Journal Article

Hou, Y., & Wang, X. Extremes and Inferences for Tail Gini Functions with Applications to Tail Gini Coefficient and Gini Shortfall. Journal of the American Statistical Association (2020)

Grants & Contracts

2022 National Science Foundation standard award NSF: 2153329. National Science Foundation. Federal. (2022)
Pre-tenure Faculty Initiative Grant (PFIG). Illinois State University. Illinois State University. (2021)
New Faculty Initiative Grant (NFIG). Illinois State University. Illinois State University. (2019)