Jialing Han

Jialing Han is an Assistant Professor in Actuarial Data Science at Heriot-Watt University. Her research focuses on dependence modelling, quantitative risk management, actuarial science and actuarial statistics, particularly in vine copulas, time series, factor models and GARCH processes.

She completed her PhD in Management with a specialisation in Actuarial Science at the University of York in 2023. Her research has applications in insurance and finance, including mortality modelling and forecasting, financial risk management and high-dimensional dependence modelling. She has published and submitted research in statistical and econometric journals, including the Canadian Journal of Statistics, Journal of Multivariate Analysis and Journal of Econometrics. Jialing has teaching experience in actuarial science, statistics, finance and quantitative methods.