Biography
Yulong Wu is a Ph.D. student in the Actuarial Science and Risk Management Program at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Prior to joining the doctoral program, he obtained his Master’s degree in Mathematics at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor with a concentration in Actuarial Science and his Bachelor’s degree in Economics at the Central University of Finance and Economics with a concentration in Actuarial Science. His current research interests lie in Decentralised Finance, especially the Decentralised Insurance. He is looking to carry the research idea of decentralisation to the asset valuation field after. He has been a graduate supervisor of several financial trading algorithm and decentralised insurance projects in IRisk Lab since Spring 2021.