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ATLANTA — Professor Liang Peng, Thomas P. Bowles Jr. Chair of Actuarial Science in the M.R. Greenberg School of Risk Science at Georgia State University’s Robinson College of Business, has been appointed a Distinguished University Professor. No more than five percent of Georgia State tenured faculty members are Distinguished University Professors at any time; the designation recognizes a sustained and outstanding record in research, teaching, and service.
An internationally renowned actuarial science researcher highly regarded for his creative and original contributions to the discipline, Peng is a fellow of the American Statistical Association and the Institute of Mathematical Statistics.
With 178 published or forthcoming articles in peer-reviewed journals, Peng publishes widely in actuarial science, financial econometrics and statistics journals including Insurance: Mathematics and Economics, North American Actuarial Journal, ASTIN Bulletin: The Journal of the International Actuarial Association, and the Scandinavian Actuarial Journal. He has served on the editorial board of ASTIN Bulletin and as associate editor of the Journal of the American Statistical Association, the Scandinavian Journal of Statistics, and Statistics Sinica. Additionally, he supports the research success of younger scholars by co-authoring publications with junior faculty and doctoral students.
“Liang Peng’s exemplary research and scholarly accomplishments are significantly above that expected for a full professor,” said Richard Phillips, dean of the Robinson College of Business. “His output is truly extraordinary and, to my knowledge, without peer in the actuarial profession. Between Liang’s research portfolio, pipeline of research in progress, and superb teaching and excellent service record, he is a consummate Distinguished University Professor.”
Liang Peng joined Georgia State in 2014. He previously was a professor of mathematics at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Peng holds a doctorate in probability and mathematical statistics from Erasmus University Rotterdam.