Dr. Ruilin Tian

Ruilin Tian is a Professor of Finance at North Dakota State University. She received her Ph.D. in Risk Management and Insurance in 2008 from Georgia State University and Master degree in Applied Economics in 2003 from Marquette University. Dr. Tian’s research interests include pension risk management, longevity hedging, mathematical optimization, business cycle prediction, tail risk analysis, moment problems, portfolio management, enterprise risk management, and monetary policy analysis. In addition, she has extended her research interests to machine learning, land finance, and behavior-oriented studies. Dr. Tian once served as a guest editor of Risks and is now an editorial reviewer of Geneva Papers on Risk and Insurance—Issues and Practice. Her academic papers have been published in journals such as the Journal of Risk and Insurance, North American Actuarial Journal, Insurance: Mathematics and Economics, Journal of Forecasting, Variance: Advancing the Science of Risk, and International Journal of Portfolio Analysis and Management.