Jing Ai

Ph.D. Candidate in Risk Management

Office: CBA 5.334A
Phone: (512) 471-1671
Fax: (512) 471-0587
Email: aij[at]mail.utexas.edu

Department of IROM, CBA 5.202
McCombs School of Business,
The University of Texas at Austin,
Austin, TX 78712

Education

Ph.D. Candidate in Risk Management, Expected August 2008
McCombs School of Business, the University of Texas at Austin
Dissertation: "Active Insurance Fraud Detection" Co-chairs: Dr. Patrick L. Brockett and Dr. Linda L. Golden

M.S. in Information, Risk, and Operations Management, 2006
McCombs School of Business, the University of Texas at Austin

B.S. in Economics Concentration: Risk Management and Insurance, 2003
School of Economics and Management, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China

Research Interests

  1. Insurance Fraud Detection
  2. Enterprise Risk Management
  3. Financial Risk Management
  4. Efficiency Analysis using Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA)
  5. Product Liability Risk and Outsourcing

Publications

  1. "Free Riding," with Patrick L. Brockett, in Encyclopedia of Actuarial Science, J. Teugels and B. Sundt (Eds.), Wiley publishers, Volume 2, pp. 739-742, 2004
  2. "Enterprise Risk Management," with Patrick L. Brockett, in Encyclopedia of Quantitative Risk Assessment, B. Everitt and E. Melnick (Eds.), Wiley publishers, forthcoming

  3. "Nonlife Pricing," with Patrick L. Brockett, in Encyclopedia of Quantitative Risk Assessment, B. Everitt and E. Melnick (Eds.), Wiley publishers, forthcoming

Papers under Review

  1.  "Quantifying an Enterprise Risk Management Framework using Chance-Constrained Programming," with Patrick L. Brockett, William W. Cooper, and Linda L. Golden  [PDF]

Working Papers

  1. "An Unsupervised Approach to Binary Classification along an Unobserved Latent Dimension," with Patrick L. Brockett, William W. Cooper, and Linda L. Golden, 2007 (Completed and being revised for submission to Journal of Risk and Insurance)
  2. "Product Liability Risk and Outsourcing to China," with Patricia Arnold and Patrick L. Brockett, 2007 (Being prepared for submission to Risk Management and Insurance Review)

Regulatory Agency Working Experience

  1. Statistical Analyst/Research Assistant, May 2004-Jan.2005
    Texas Department of Insurance, Austin, Texas
     Analyzed massive-scale datasets using statistical tools and provided analytical assistance to a team of actuaries and government officials, in preparation for “TDI Credit Scoring Study – Report to 79th Legislature: Use of Credit Information by Insurers in Texas” [PDF]

Presentations

  1. "Active Fraud Detection," with Patrick L. Brockett and Linda L. Golden, INFORMS, Seattle, Washington, Nov. 2007

  2. "Product Liability Risk and Outsourcing to China," invited guest speaker, Managing International Risk (MBA course), 2007 [PowerPoint Slides]

  3. "Enterprise Risk Management using Chance-Constrained Programming," with Patrick L. Brockett, Integrated Risk Management in Operations and Global Supply Chain Management Workshop and Conference, Ann Arbor, Michigan, June 2006; Sponsored Graduate Student Participant

Teaching Experience

  1. Introduction to Risk Management (undergraduate course), McCombs School of Business, the University of Texas at Austin, Fall 2007 (Instructor Evaluation: 4.5/5.0) [Syllabus]                                         

Honors and Awards

  1. Dean’s Fellowship, McCombs School of Business, The University of Texas at Austin, 2006-2007
  2. Funded Conference Participation in Integrated Risk Management in Operations and Global Supply Chain Management Workshop and Conference, 2006
  3. Risk Management Scholarship from Central Texas Chapter of the CPCU, 2004-2005
  4. University Preemptive Fellowship, the University of Texas at Austin, 2003

  
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