Qihe Tang

Professor Qihe Tang is a SHARP Professor at UNSW Business School's School of Risk and Actuarial Studies since 2017, where he also serves as Co-Director of the Innovations in Risk, Insurance and Superannuation (IRIS) Knowledge Hub. Previously, he was a Full Professor and held the F. Wendell Miller Endowed Chair at the University of Iowa (2006-2019), following academic appointments at the University of Hong Kong, University of Amsterdam, and Concordia University.

Dr. Tang earned his PhD in Statistics from the University of Science and Technology of China in 2001. His research expertise centers on extreme value theory for insurance, finance, and quantitative risk management, with current focus areas including catastrophe risk modeling, systemic risk in financial networks, decision making under uncertainty, pricing in incomplete markets, and climate change impacts on insurance.

His recent scholarly output demonstrates significant contributions to tail risk analysis, risk measurement methodologies, and insurance-linked securities pricing. The articles reveal a strong emphasis on extreme events, systemic risk propagation, and innovative approaches to quantifying and managing catastrophic risks in increasingly complex financial and environmental contexts.

• Elected Member of the International Statistical Institute (ISI)
• SHARP Professor at UNSW Sydney
• F. Wendell Miller Endowed Chair at University of Iowa

Professor Tang has supervised over a dozen PhD students who now hold positions in academia and industry worldwide. He serves as Editor of Insurance: Mathematics and Economics and has been Principal Investigator for multiple major research grants including three ARC Discovery Projects, NSF funding, and several Society of Actuaries research grants. His research has achieved an H-index of 43 according to Google Scholar.