Professor Tong will be teaching the course ACTS:3080, Mathematics of Finance, the first course that students take to prepare for the Society of Actuaries FM examination.  Welcome back to Iowa!

Phone: 319-467-0160

Office: 374 SH

Website: https://sites.google.com/view/ztong1997/home

Research Interests: 

Credit portfolio losses

Financial networks and systemic risk

Insurance under information asymmetry

Publications

• Gómez, F., Tang, Q., and Tong, Z., 2021. The Gradient Allocation Principle based on the Higher Moment Risk Measure. Under revision in Journal of Banking and Finance.

• Tang, Q., Tong, Z., and Xun, L., 2021. Insurance Risk Analysis of Financial Networks Vulnerable to a Shock. To appear in European Journal of Operational Research.

• Tang, Q., Tong, Z., and Xun, L., 2021. Portfolio Risk Analysis of Excess of Loss Reinsurance. Insurance: Mathematics and Economics, 102, pp.91–110. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.insmatheco.2021.11.004.

• Tang, Q., Tong, Z., and Yang, Y., 2021. Large Portfolio Losses in a Turbulent Market. European Journal of Operational Research, 292(2), pp.755–769. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejor.2020.10.043.

Awards and Honors

• Dean’s Award for Outstanding PhD Theses, UNSW Sydney 2021

• PhD Teaching Fellowship, UNSW Sydney, 2020

• Research Assistantship, UNSW Sydney, 2018–Present

• University International Postgraduate Award, UNSW Sydney, 2018–2021

• Graduate Assistantship, University of Iowa, 2016–2018

• Outstanding Undergraduate Scholarship, University of Science and Technology of China, 2013–2016

• Cyrus Tang Scholarship, University of Science and Technology of China, 2012–2016