Emiliano A. Valdez, PhD, FSA
Professor, Actuarial Science
Department of Mathematics
341 Mansfield Road, U-1009
University of Connecticut
Storrs, CT 06269-1009
Office: Monteith 439
Telephone: (860) 486-6331
Fax: (860) 486-4238
email: emiliano dot valdez at uconn dot edu
About me
Emil is a Fellow of the Society of Actuaries and holds a Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin in Madison. His most recent post was at Michigan State University in East Lansing as professor and director of their actuarial science program. His primary research interest is actuarial science that covered topics in copula models and dependencies, applications of statistics to insurance problems, managing post-retirement assets, and risk measures and capital requirements related to enterprise risk management. In recognition for the quality of his research, he has been awarded several prizes that include the E. A. Lew Award, the Halmstad Memorial Prize, and the Hachemeister Prize.
Emil also has a joint appointment at the Department of Statistics.
Book on data analysis Actuarial Statistics with R: Theory and Case Studies Errata
Research project on Applying Data Mining Techniques in Actuarial Science
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