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Professor Jae Kyung Woo is a distinguished academic in the School of Risk and Actuarial Studies at the UNSW Business School, University of New South Wales. She holds multiple prestigious professional designations including Fellow of the Institute of Actuaries of Australia (FIAA), Fellow of the Society of Actuaries (FSA), and Chartered Enterprise Risk Analyst (CERA).
Her educational background includes MMath and Ph.D. degrees from the Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science at the University of Waterloo. She has held academic positions at Columbia University as Assistant Professor in the Department of Statistics (2011-2012), and at the University of Hong Kong as Assistant Professor in the Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science (2012-2017) before joining UNSW in July 2017.
- Research interests focus on risk theory, reliability theory, aggregate claim analysis, queueing theory, and dependence modelling
- Editorial Board member for ASTIN Bulletin (2021-present), European Actuarial Journal (2025-present), Probability in the Engineering and Information Sciences (2018-present), and Risks (2020-present)
- Principal investigator for ARC Discovery Projects (2020-2023) and Casualty Actuarial Society grants (2018-2020)
Her research output includes 35 journal articles, 1 book, 1 thesis/dissertation, and 1 other publication, with recent work emphasizing shock models for correlated large losses, credibility theory under dependency structures, and advanced dependence modeling techniques in insurance contexts. Her work bridges theoretical stochastic analysis with practical applications in insurance and risk management.
- Fellow of the Institute of Actuaries of Australia (FIAA), since May 2018
- Fellow of the Society of Actuaries (FSA), since Oct 2013
- Chartered Enterprise Risk Analyst (CERA), since Jan 2012
- Fellow Member of Actuarial Society of Hong Kong (ASHK), since Dec 2018
Professor Woo has secured significant research funding including an ARC Discovery Project grant of AUD 334,000 (2020-2023) for developing shock model-based frameworks for correlated large losses, and a Casualty Actuarial Society grant of USD 20,000 (2018-2020) for credibility theory research under general dependency structures. She served as Nominated Accreditation Actuary at UNSW until 2024.
