Rate My Professor Xueyuan Wu

Xueyuan Wu is an Associate Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Melbourne's Faculty of Business and Economics, where he also directs the Graduate Research program in Actuarial Studies within the Centre for Actuarial Studies. He earned his PhD in Actuarial Science from the University of Hong Kong in 2004, with a thesis on insurance risk models with correlated classes of business. Prior degrees include an MSc in Probability and Statistics (2000) and a BSc in Probability and Mathematical Statistics (1997), both from Nankai University in China. Wu joined the University of Melbourne in January 2006 as a Lecturer at the Centre for Actuarial Studies, advanced to Senior Lecturer in September 2010, and continues in his current role as Associate Professor. He is an Associate of the Institute of Actuaries of Australia (AIAA). His teaching portfolio encompasses actuarial studies subjects at undergraduate, honours, and postgraduate levels, including Financial Mathematics, Actuarial Modelling, Contingencies, and Risk Theory. Administratively, he has served as Distance Education Coordinator for the Centre (2010-2014), Honours Convenor (2016), and Program Director for the Master of Actuarial Science and Graduate Diploma in Actuarial Science at Melbourne Business School (2018-2020). Earlier in his career, he held tutoring and lecturing positions at the University of Hong Kong (2000-2003) and the University of South Australia (2003-2005).