Frank Quan

Zhiyu (Frank) Quan is an Assistant Professor at the Program for Actuarial and Risk Management Sciences of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, a Brad and Karen Smith Professorial Scholar of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, and a Finance and Insurance Sector Lead for Discovery Partners Institute. He holds a Ph.D. in Actuarial Science from the University of Connecticut. Before joining Illinois, he worked in a cutting-edge Insurtech company as a R \& D data scientist developing data-driven solutions for major insurance companies. He has a broad spectrum of research interests in data science applications in insurance such as tree-based models, natural language processing, deep learning, and applies his actuarial expertise to build predictive models for claim research, rate making, etc. His research agenda is driven by real-life data and is inspired by collaborations with Insurtech and insurance companies. Besides, he is a director of the Illinois Risk Lab, which facilitates research activities that integrate academic training with practical problem-solving in real business settings. He has received the Arnold O. Beckman Research Award and has been awarded by the Society of Actuaries Research Institute and Casualty Actuarial Society.