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Actuarial Program Approved to Offer All Available UEC Credits
The Actuarial Program at the University of Illinois has been approved to grant qualified students eligibility for UEC credits for all SOA exams that can be obtained through…
Risk Analytics Symposium 2021
Two years ago, the Actuarial Science Club at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign presented the first ever InsureTech symposium organized entirely by actuaries. This year, the Actuarial…
Fall Recruitment 2020
Every year, the Actuarial Science Club (ASC) hosts one of our largest events called Meet the Firms. Students ranging from freshmen to graduates dressed in professional attire line…
September 2, 2020 Illinois Risk Lab in SOA Education & Research Section Webcast
Professors Alfred Chong and Runhuan Feng, and our graduate supervisor Linfeng Zhang, speaks at the Education and Research Section Webcast of the Society of Actuaries, on their timely…
August 30, 2020 Hack Night Announcement
Although the pandemic is continuing to change the way of learning, opportunities unfold because of this. In Spring 2020, the Illinois Risk Lab initiated a series of hack…
Actuarial Science and Financial Mathematics Seminar Announcement
The pandemic seems to have caused (or even still causing) disruptive changes in our work, study, and daily lives. However, actuaries should see risk as opportunities! In Summer…
August 25, 2020 Actuarial Science and Financial Mathematics Seminar Announcement
The pandemic seems to have caused (or even still causing) disruptive changes in our work, study, and daily lives. However, actuaries should see risk as opportunities! In Summer…
August 16, 2020 Zhiyu (Frank) Quan Joining Illinois Actuarial Science
Professor Zhiyu (Frank) Quan joins the Actuarial Science program at the University of Illinois! Before joining Illinois, he worked for a cutting-edge Insurtech company as an R&D data…
August 5, 2020 The Wait is Over! Research Projects in Fall 2020
The Illinois Risk Lab are delighted to announce that six projects in Fall 2020 are now calling for applications. Using Text Mining and Natural Language Processing (NLP) to…
July 22, 2020 Illinois Actuarial Science Receiving 2020 CAS University Award
The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is one of four recipients of the 2020 CAS University Award from the Casualty Actuarial Society (CAS). The annual award program celebrates…