Biographical note

Guojun Gan is an associate professor in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Connecticut. Before moving to academia, he worked at a life insurance company and at a hedge fund. He is a Fellow of the Society of Actuaries and his research interests fall within the interdisciplinary areas of actuarial science and data science.

Chaoqun Ma is a professor of management science in the College of Business Administration at Hunan University, where he served as dean from 2009 to 2019. His research interests include financial engineering, financial risk management, computational management, resource and environmental management, system optimization, and decision-making theory.

Jianhong Wu is a University Distinguished Research Professor in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics, the founding director of the Laboratory for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, and a senior Canada Research Chair in Industrial and Applied Mathematics at York University. He has received several prestigious awards, including the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal from the Government of Canada, and the CAIMS-Fields Industrial Mathematics Prize. His research interests include nonlinear dynamics, delay differential equations, neural networks, pattern recognition, mathematical ecology, epidemiology, and big data analytics.