Qihe Tang

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 centres on extreme value theory for insurance, finance, and risk management. Recently, he has been working on various topics from the interdisciplinary field of insurance, finance, applied probability, and operations research. These topics include:

• Modeling, measuring, and managing catastrophe risks,
• Systemic risk and financial networks,
• Pricing in incomplete markets,
• Portfolio theory under model uncertainty, and
• Climate change and insurance.

He has published over 100 papers resulting in an H index of 42 according to Google Scholar. He has been Principal Investigator/Lead Chief Investigator of various major external grants including 2 from ARC of Australia, 1 from NSF of US, 5 from the Society of Actuaries, and 1 from NSERC of Canada.

Currently, he is an Editor of the journal Insurance: Mathematics and Economics, and an Associate Editor of several journals including Applied Stochastic Models in Business and Industry, Statistics & Probability Letters, and Science China Mathematics. He is an Elected Member of the International Statistical Institute.

Education

• Doctor of Philosophy - PhD University of Science and Technology of China (1998 — 2001)

Grants

• 2022-2024: Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery Project, Lead Chief Investigator (with Chief Investigators Han Li and Katja Ignatieva and Partner Investigator Henry Lam), AUD 378,292
• 2020-2023: Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery Project, Lead Chief Investigator (with Chief Investigators Benjamin Avanzi and Bernard Wong and Partner Investigator Jose Blanchet), AUD 310,000
• 2018-2021: Centers of Actuarial Excellence (CAE) Research Grant, the Society of Actuaries (SOA), Principal Investigator (with other Principal Investigators Kung-Sik Chan, Yiqing Chen, Ambrose Lo, and Elias Shiu), USD 228,000
• 2014-2017: The National Science Foundation (NSF), Principal Investigator for the subcontract of the University of Iowa (with other Principal Investigators Jose Blanchet of Columbia University and Henry Lam of the University of Michigan), USD 349,874
• 2014-2017: The Society of Actuaries (SOA), Principal Investigator (with other Principal Investigators Jose Blanchet of Columbia University, Henry Lam of the University of Michigan, and Zhongyi Yuan of the Pennsylvania State University), USD 80,403
• 2013-2016: Centers of Actuarial Excellence (CAE) Research Grant, the Society of Actuaries (SOA), Principal Investigator (with other Principal Investigators Elias Shiu , N.D. Shyamalkumar, and Ambrose Lo), USD 244,104.02

Awards

• 2018-: Elected Member of the International Statistical Institute (ISI)
• 2014-2019: F. Wendell Miller Endowed Chair, University of Iowa
• 2014-2015: Career Development Award, University of Iowa