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Runhuan Feng

Associate Professor, Director of Actuarial Science
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Runhuan Feng is an Associate Professor of Mathematics and the Director of Actuarial Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is a Fellow of the Society of Actuaries and a Chartered Enterprise Risk Analyst. He is the State Farm Companies Foundation Scholar in Actuarial Science. Over the recent years, he has dedicated his efforts to developing computational methods for risk assessment and management in areas of investment combined insurance and retirement planning.

Biography

Runhuan Feng has published extensively on computational techniques of risk assessment and management of investment-combined insurance and retirement planning products. He led the Society of Actuaries' first survey on nested stochastic modeling for insurance companies and performed subsequent research study to create resources for financial reporting actuaries on computational methods to speed up nested simulations. Runhuan also has keen interest on risk analysis and data analytics for regulation and public policy making. His work in collaboration with State Universities Annuitants Association and a state legislator led to a legislative proposal to address the underfunding issue of the Illinois retirement systems.

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