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Gregory Ryslik
Gregory Ryslik is an accredited actuary and a Fellow of the Casualty Actuarial Society. Gregory worked as an actuary for several years at the New York office of PricewaterhouseCoopers. While there, his main responsibilities involved analyzing loss and reserve development for insurance and reinsurance firms in the Property & Casualty field. During that time he also wrote several programs to automate financial computations and models which led to direct savings in budget and time, created new models for relating insurer risk to return on equity, and led training sessions in programming for other associates.
Gregory holds a Masters of Arts degree in statistics from Columbia University and graduated summa cum laude from Rutgers College and Rutgers Business School with a triple major in mathematics, computer science, and finance. He has extensive experience as a teacher and a tutor, and has given talks in the United States and abroad. In the fall of 2011, Gregory was one of a select few to be chosen to participate in UCLA’s prestigious Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics. Gregory is currently a PhD candidate in biostatistics at Yale University. He resides in New Haven, Connecticut with his wife.
Xiaofei Wang
Xiaofei (Susan) Wang previously worked as a retirement actuary at Mercer in San Francisco. Her day to day responsibilities included performing pension valuations, conducting non-discrimination testing, filing regulatory reports, and producing benefit calculations. She also produced several retirement benefit calculators and provided training to clients. Following her work at Mercer, Xiaofei also worked at a startup, WeatherBill (now the Climate Corporation), pricing weather derivatives and building a weather-simulation engine using statistical and machine learning algorithms. Xiaofei attained the Associate status of the Society of Actuaries in 2008.
Xiaofei graduated from UC Berkeley magna cum laude with a Bachelor of Arts degree in applied mathematics at an accelerated pace of two years. She also has a Master of Arts degree in statistics at Yale University and is continuing her studies there as a PhD candidate. In May 2012, Xiaofei was awarded the Leonard J. Savage Statistical Writing Award for her interdisciplinary research in field of evolutionary biology. During her free time, Xiaofei works as a statistical consultant.