Dr. Ruodu Wang is University Research Chair and Associate Professor of Actuarial Science and Quantitative Finance at the University of Waterloo in Canada. He received his PhD in Mathematics (2012) from the Georgia Institute of Technology, after completing his Bachelor (2006) and Master’s (2009) degrees at Peking University. He holds editorial positions in leading journals in actuarial science and mathematical economics, including Co-Editor of the European Actuarial Journal, and Co-Editor of ASTIN Bulletin - The Journal of the International Actuarial Association. His scientific work has appeared in academic journals in various other fields, such as Management Science, Operations Research, The Annals of Statistics, Biometrika, The Annals of Applied Probability, Mathematics of Operations Research, and Mathematical Finance. He is an affiliated member of RiskLab at ETH Zurich. He received the Golden Jubilee Research Excellence Award from the Faculty of Mathematics at Waterloo in 2017 and a Discovery Accelerator Supplement Award from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council in 2018.