Linfeng Zhang

Assistant Professor of Actuarial Science
Department of Mathematics
The Ohio State University

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Mathematics Tower 430

231 W. 18th Ave.

Columbus, OH 43210

I am an assistant professor of Actuarial Science at the Ohio State University. I earned my Ph.D. degree in Mathematics with the concentration in Actuarial Science and Risk Analytics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign under the supervision of Dr. Runhuan Feng and Dr. Wing Fung (Alfred) Chong.

I worked at the Drake University, Iowa, as a visiting assistant professor of Actuarial Science during my last year of PhD study from Fall 2022 to Summer 2023.

Prior to my doctoral study, I worked as a research assistant at the Critical Infrastructure Resilience Institute and had three years of research experience in topics related to cyber risk and cyber insurance. During my doctoral program, I worked on several projects as a research assistant or a PI funded by the Society of Actuaries, the Fundación MAPFRE, and Cisco.

I published peer-reviewed academic papers about a variety of aspects of cyber risk in actuarial science, engineering, and law review journals, such as Geneva Papers on Risk and Insurance: Issues and Practice, IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing, and Connecticut Insurance Law Journal. I am also working on other emerging topics in the field of actuarial science and risk management, such as pandemic risk and privacy risk.

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selected publications

  1. Analysis of Cyber Incident Categories Based on Losses
    Jay P. Kesan, and Linfeng Zhang
    ACM Transactions on Management Information Systems 2020
  2. Cyber risk and insurance for transportation infrastructure
    Gina Tonn, Jay P. KesanLinfeng Zhang, and Jeffrey Czajkowski
    Transport Policy 2019
  3. Reducing Informational Disadvantages to Improve Cyber Risk Management†
    Sachin Shetty, Michael McShane, Linfeng ZhangJay P. Kesan, and 3 more authors
    The Geneva Papers on Risk and Insurance - Issues and Practice 2018
  4. An Empirical Investigation of the Relationship between Local Government Budgets, IT Expenditures and Cyber Losses
    J. P. Kesan, and Linfeng Zhang
    IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing 2019
  5. When Is a Cyber Incident Likely to Be Litigated and How Much Will It Cost? An Empirical Study
    Jay P. Kesan, and Linfeng Zhang
    Connecticut Insurance Law Journal 2020
  6. Pandemic risk management: Resources contingency planning and allocation
    Xiaowei Chen, Wing Fung ChongRunhuan Feng, and Linfeng Zhang
    Insurance: Mathematics and Economics 2021
  7. Epidemic Compartmental Models and Their Insurance Applications
    Runhuan Feng, José Garrido, Longhao Jin, Sooie-Hoe Loke, and 1 more author
    2022