Zhonghe Wan is a Ph.D. student in the Actuarial Science and Risk Management Program at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). Before she joined the doctoral program, she obtained a master degree in Statistics at UIUC. She participated in the Research Reading Group of the Department of Mathematics as well as worked as a head teaching assistant for many courses in the Gies College of Business. She served as a graduate research assistant throughout 2021, and her research focused on random network modeling.