With an aim to enhance our research strengths and build a stronger team, Department of Applied Mathematics invites renowned and talented researchers at all career levels to join us from time to time. We are delighted to welcome on board our new faculty members who have joined AMA family in recent months:
Professor Dai Min, Chair Professor of Applied Statistics and Financial Mathematics
Professor Dai joined AMA in October 2021. He obtained Bachelor of Science and Master of Science degrees in Mathematics from the Soochow University in 1992 and 1997, respectively, Master of Philosophy in Applied Mathematics from The Hong Kong Polytechnic University in 1998 and Doctor of Philosophy in Mathematics from Fudan University in 2000. Before joining PolyU, Professor Dai was a Professor of Mathematics, the Director of the Centre for Quantitative Finance, and the Program Director of Master of Science in Quantitative Finance at National University of Singapore (NUS). He was also the Director of the Center for Finance and Financial Risk Management at NUS (Chongqing) Research Institute.
Professor Dai’s research focuses on mathematical finance, including financial derivative pricing, portfolio choice with market imperfections, corporate finance, cryptocurrency markets, and financial technology. Professor Dai published in top journals in different disciplines, such as Mathematical Finance in financial mathematics, Management Science in operations research and management, Review of Financial Studies and Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis in finance, and Journal of Economic Theory and Journal of Econometrics in economics. Besides, he has many publications in leading journals in applied mathematics, such as Journal of Differential Equations, Mathematics of Operations Research, and SIAM Journals.
Professor Dai is now serving as a Co-Editor of Digital Finance, and as an Associate Editor of Asia-Pacific Journal of Operational Research, Finance and Stochastics, Frontier of Mathematical Finance, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, Mathematics and Financial Economics, and SIAM Journal on Financial Mathematics.
Professor Huang Jian, Chair Professor of Data Science and Analytics
Professor Huang joined AMA in June 2022. He obtained Bachelor of Science degree in Mathematics and Master of Science degree in Mathematical Statistics from Wuhan University in 1985 and 1987 respectively, and received his Doctor of Philosophy degree in Statistics from the University of Washington in 1994. After his postdoctoral fellowship at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in the United States, Professor Huang joined the University of Iowa as Assistant Professor in 1994, and was promoted to Associate Professor in 1999 then to Full Professor in 2004. During his tenure with the University of Iowa, Professor Huang was engaged in the areas of Statistics and Actuarial Science, Biostatistics and Public Health Genetics.
Professor Huang is an internationally acclaimed scholar in the field of statistics. His research interests include high-dimensional statistics, semiparametric inference, statistical genetics and survival analysis. He recently works more on deep learning research. Professor Huang has made tremendous contributions to statistical theory, methods and applications through innovative research and impactful publications in leading journals of mathematical statistics and related scientific fields. He has an impressive record in obtaining top-level external research grants and his research exemplifies the interaction and collaboration between statistics and other disciplines. His international reputation has been further evidenced by his being listed in Thomson Reuters’ “The World’s Most Influential Scientific Minds 2015” report and designated a Thomson Reuter Highly Cited Researcher from 2015 to 2019.
He was bestowed the National Institutes of Health Research Scientist Development Award in 1998 and the University of Iowa Annual College of Public Health Research Award in 2011. He is a Fellow of the American Statistical Association and the Institute of Mathematical Statistics.
Dr Han Ruijian, Assistant Professor
Dr Han joined AMA in September 2022. He received his Doctor of Philosophy degree in Statistics from Hong Kong University of Science and Technology in 2020 and Bachelor of Science degree in Pure Mathematics and Applied Mathematics from Sichuan University in 2016. Prior to joining PolyU, Dr Han was a Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Statistics at The Chinese University of Hong Kong. His research interests span high-dimensional statistics, statistical machine learning, online inference and reinforcement learning.
Dr Zhang Zhu, Assistant Professor
Dr Zhang joined AMA in September 2022. He received his Doctor of Philosophy degree from The Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2019, under the supervision of Professor Duan Renjun. Before joining PolyU, Dr Zhang was a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Mathematics at City University of Hong Kong. His research interests are Mathematical theories for boundary layers and Kinetic theories.
