Dr. Jose Blanchet is a Professor of Management Science and Engineering (MS&E) at
Stanford. Prior to joining MS&E, he was a professor at Columbia (Industrial Engineering and Operations Research, and Statistics, 2008-2017), and before that he taught at Harvard (Statistics, 2004-2008). Jose is a recipient of the 2010 Erlang Prize and several best publication awards in areas such as applied probability, simulation, operations management, and revenue management. He also received a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers in 2010. He worked as an analyst in Protego Financial Advisors, a leading investment bank in Mexico. He has research interests in applied probability and Monte Carlo methods. He is the Area Editor of Stochastic Models in Mathematics of Operations Research. He has served on the editorial board of Advances in Applied Probability, Bernoulli, Extremes, Insurance: Mathematics and Economics, Journal of Applied Probability, Queueing Systems: Theory and Applications, and Stochastic Systems, among others.
Dr. Patricia Born is Midyette Eminent Scholar and Professor in the Department of
Risk Management/Insurance, Real Estate and Legal Studies at Florida State University. She received her M.A. and Ph.D. from Duke University and her B.A. from the University of Michigan. Her teaching and research interests include insurance regulation, management of catastrophic risks, catastrophe modeling, medical malpractice liability, health insurance, insurance data analytics, and insurance market development. She has published in premier journals in economics and insurance including the Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, the Journal of Risk and Insurance, Review of Economics and Statistics, and Insurance: Mathematics and Economics. Dr. Born has held leadership roles in several academic organizations including the American Risk and Insurance Association, the Asia-Pacific Risk and Insurance Association, the Western Risk and Insurance Association, and the Risk Theory Society. She currently serves as President of the Eastern European Risk and Insurance Association.
Dr. Steven Kou is Allen and Kelli Questrom Professor in Finance at Boston University. He
teaches courses on risk management, FinTech, and quantitative finance. Currently, he is a co-area-editor for Operations Research and a co-editor for Digital Finance and has served on editorial boards of many journals, such as Management Science, Mathematics of Operations Research, and Mathematical Finance. He is a fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics and won the Erlang Prize from INFORMS in 2002. Some of his research results have been incorporated into standard MBA textbooks.