Jinxia Zhu is an Associate Professor in the School of Risk and Actuarial Studies at the University of New South Wales. She holds a Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Mathematics and a PhD degree in Actuarial Science. Her research interests lie in the areas of optimal control in insurance and finance, risk theory and modelling in these fields.  Her current research focuses on present-biased behavior issues and model uncertainty in control and optimization. Additionally, she is working on applying machine learning techniques to credit default and cyber risk modelling,  and addressing optimal control and health insurance issues. 

Research Interests

• Stochastic Control and Optimization  

• Present-Biased Behavior  

• Model Uncertainty  

• Credit Default Modeling  

• Health Insurance Optimization 

• Risk Theory and Insurance Modeling 
• Biodiversity and Morbidity