Biography

Dr. Di (Cindy) Xu earned her Ph.D. in actuarial science from the University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada, in 2016. Her research interests include risk theory, queueing theory, distributional analysis of risks, modeling dependency in insurance portfolios, catastrophe risk analysis and pricing.
 
Xu co-authored “On the analysis of time dependent claims in a class of birth process count models” in Insurance: Mathematics and Economics. She is a two-time recipient of the $20,000 James C. Hickman scholarship from the Society of Actuaries. Her dissertation is titled “Analysis of time-dependent aggregate claims and its application in insurance”.