Guojun Gan is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Connecticut, where he has been since August 2014. Prior to that, he worked at a large life insurance company in Toronto, Canada for six years and a hedge fund in Oakville, Canada for one year. He received a BS degree from Jilin University, Changchun, China, in 2001 and MS and PhD degrees from York University, Toronto, Canada, in 2003 and 2007, respectively. Website

Steve Guo is currently an Actuarial Science faculty member at the Department of Mathematical Sciences, Ball State University. He has a PhD degree from Georgia State University, and BS/MS degrees from Purdue University. Prior to joining Ball State University, Steve worked at University of California, Santa Barbara as a Visiting Assistant Professor at the Department of Statistics and Applied Probability..

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Ron Richman is an experienced actuary and risk manager, currently an Associate Director at QED Actuaries and Consultants, where he is responsible for client work on life and general insurance clients and performing research into applications of machine learning and AI to actuarial and insurance topics. Before this, he led the Enterprise Risk Management and Actuarial Functions for the AIG group within Africa for several years. Ron is a Fellow of the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries (IFoA) and the Actuarial Society of South Africa (ASSA), holds practicing certificates in Short Term Insurance and Life Insurance from ASSA, and a Masters of Philosophy in Actuarial Science, with distinction, from the University of Cape Town.

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