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Andrei L. Badescu is a Professor of Actuarial Science and Director of the Master of Financial Insurance in the Department of Statistical Sciences at the University of Toronto. His academic leadership spans editorial roles at Insurance: Mathematics and Economics and program direction for graduate actuarial programs.
His educational foundation includes:
- BSc in Mathematics and Economics from Bucharest University of Economic Studies (1998)
- MSc in Mathematics and Economics from Bucharest University of Economic Studies (2000)
- PhD in Actuarial Science from Western University (2004)
He completed postdoctoral training at the University of Waterloo (2006) before joining the University of Toronto faculty in 2006.
Research interests evolved from foundational work in Risk and Ruin Theory using Matrix Analytic Methods to contemporary applications in Stochastic Claim Reserving, Dependence Modelling, and Predictive Analytics. Current emphases include Telematics risk assessment and Insurance Data Science, leveraging advanced statistical techniques for real-world insurance challenges.
Recent publications (2021-2025) reveal a strategic shift toward data-driven insurance solutions. Key trends include micro-level claim reserving via inverse probability weighting, telematics-based driving risk modeling using unsupervised learning, and mixture-of-experts frameworks for portfolio ratemaking. These works bridge traditional actuarial science with machine learning, particularly in handling censored data and operational risk.
Professor Badescu mentors five doctoral students (Spark Tseung, Sebastian Calcetero, Ian Weng, Sophia Chan, Hassan Abdelrahman) and two master's students (Kaihua Sun, Yifeng Ge). His administrative leadership includes directing the Master of Financial Insurance program and previously overseeing the Data Science concentration in the Master of Applied Computing.
His research group develops practical tools like the LRMoE.jl software package for actuarial loss modeling, while future work targets telematics integration and insurance-specific artificial intelligence applications.
