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Fan Yang is an Associate Professor in the Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science at the University of Waterloo. His research interests encompass various areas within quantitative risk management and actuarial science. His ongoing topics of investigation include extreme value theory in insurance finance, asymptotic analysis of rare events in insurance finance, risk aggregation using risk measures, and heavy-tailed distributions with presence dependence. He completed his PhD in Applied Mathematical and Computational Sciences at the University of Iowa from 2008 to 2013, under the supervision of Professor Qihe Tang. Prior to his doctorate, he obtained a Master's degree in Mathematics and a Bachelor's degree in Computational Mathematics from the same institution, along with a minor in International Economics and Trade from Xi’an Jiaotong University, where he studied from 2004 to 2008.
Includes fields like Clinical, Cognitive, Developmental, and Industrial/Organizational Psychology.