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Yvonne Chueh is a Professor of Actuarial Science, Statistics, and Mathematics at Central Washington University in Ellensburg, Washington. She has over two decades of teaching experience across multiple institutions including the University of Connecticut, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, and Central Washington University. She served as Director of the CWU Actuarial Science program from 2001 to 2014 and remains actively engaged in both the CWU Computational Sciences master's program and the Actuarial Science program.
Dr. Chueh earned her Ph.D. and M.S. in Math & Actuarial Science from the University of Connecticut and completed her B.S. in Pure Math at National Taiwan University. Prior to her academic career, she worked for Aetna ING in Hartford, Connecticut, and the Institute for Information Industry in Taipei, Taiwan.
Professor Chueh's research focuses on implementing research and teaching tools through software engineering (CSTEP, AMOOF, SIWI) and industrial collaborations, efficient stochastic modeling for insurance industries, and computational intelligence. She has developed innovative approaches to stochastic modeling efficiency, including pivot/representative scenarios with parametric tail replication, and has created educational tools like the Actuarial Model Outcome Optimal Fit (AMOOF) software. Her work bridges theoretical actuarial science with practical applications in the insurance industry.
Her publication record demonstrates a strong focus on mortality modeling, stochastic processes, and computational methods in actuarial science. Recent work includes applications to pandemic response (COVID-19 CHAT project), GPU-accelerated scenario reduction, and novel dependency measures for financial time series. Her research consistently addresses practical challenges faced by the insurance industry while advancing methodological approaches.
- Member of the Society of Actuaries since 1994
- Council member (2013-2017) of SOA Education & Research Section
- Chair (2017) of SOA Education & Research Section
Professor Chueh has been an active faculty advisor and advocate for teaching critical thinking through community inquiries, just-in-time learning, multimodal learning, and faculty-guided student research. She has presented at numerous conferences including the Society of Actuaries Life & Annuity Symposium, Actuarial Research Conference, and International Joint Conference on Neural Networks. Her industry collaborations include work with the American Academy of Actuaries and the Actuarial Foundation.
She has developed several software tools including AMOOF3 for probability modeling and CSTEP for educational purposes, demonstrating her commitment to bridging theoretical knowledge with practical applications in actuarial science education and industry practice.
