Chengguo Weng
University of Waterloo
Chengguo Weng is a full professor in the Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science at the University of Waterloo. He served as the Associate Chair, Actuarial Science, in his home department of the university from 2019 to 2022. He obtained a Ph.D. degree in 2009 from the University of Waterloo. His research interests span relevant scientific disciplines from actuarial science, and finance to statistics and stochastic optimization. He published intensively in leading actuarial journals. His actuarial research has focused on heavy-tailed risks, index insurance design, optimal insurance and reinsurance, complex variable annuity products valuation, and machine learning methods for premium rating in P&C and mortality forecasting. Currently, he is particularly interested in research problems arising from applied projects and innovative applications of machine learning methods to insurance and finance.
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Articles by Chengguo Weng
The statistics of capture ratios
This paper investigates the statistical problem of estimating the capture ratio based on a finite number of observations of a fund’s returns.