Mingxin Xu
Office address:Department
of Mathematics and Statistics, University
of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, NC28223, U.S.A.
Telephone: 704-***-****
abpi56@r.postjobfree.com
Education Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
Ph.D. in Mathematical Finance, May 2004, Thesis
adviser: Steven Shreve
M.S.
in Mathematical Sciences, May 1999
Syracuse
University, Syracuse, NY
M.S. in Mathematics, May 1998, Specializations:
Probability/Statistics and Numerical Analysis
Shanghai
Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China
B.S.
in Electrical Engineering and Applied Mathematics, July 1996
Work University
of North Carolina at Charlotte, August 2004 - present, Assistant Professor (tenure track
position)
Experience
Statistical and Applied Mathematical Sciences
Institute (SAMSI), September -
December 2005, New Resercher Fellow
Swiss Federal Institute of
Technology Zurich (ETH), Zurich, Switzerland, November 10 - December 8, 2007 and
May 15 - June 30, 2005, Visiting Scholar
Bank of America, June - December 2000, Internship
at Quantitative Finance Department: pure-jump processes modeling for option
pricing and hedging, quantitative support for trading group
Publications Joint work with
Jing Li, Minimizing conditional Value-at-Risk under
constraint on expedcted value, preprint, 2009 Infinite horizon optimal search
problem with hiring and firing options, preprint, 2009 Joint
work with Jing Li, Risk minimizing portfolio optimization
and hedging with conditional Value-at-Risk, Review of Futures Markets, 16, 471-506, 2008
Joint work with Lloyd
Blenman, Joint ventures, risk sharing
and optimal contract design, preprint, 2009
Joint work with Libor
Pospisil,Jan Večeř, Tradable
measures of risk, preprint, 2007
Joint work with Kiseop Lee, Parameter estimation
from multinomial trees to jump diffusions with K means clustering, RISK,
21, 82-86, 2008
Joint work withLloyd Blenman, Joint ventures and risk sharing, Journal
of Business and Entrepreneurship, 21, 96-107, 2009
Joint work with Masahiko Egami, A continous-time
search model with job switch and jumps, to appear in Mathematical Methods
of Operations Research, 2008 Risk measure pricing and hedging
in incomplete markets, Annals
of Finance, 2, 51-71, 2006 Joint work with Jan Večeř, Pricing Asian options in a semimartingale model, Quantitative Finance, 4, 170-175, 2004
Joint work with Jan Večeř, Mean
comparison theorem cannot be extended to Poisson case, Journal of Applied Probability, 41, 1199-1202,
2004
Supervisedby
Steven Shreve, Minimizing shortfall risk using duality
approach - an application to partial hedging in incomplete markets, Ph.D. thesis, 2004
Colloquium Bachelier
Finance Society 5th World Congress,
London, July 15-19, 2008and Conference Convegno PRIN, Metodi Stocastici in Finanza, Turin, Italy,
July3-5, 2008Talks NSF/CBMS Regional Conference on Convex Duality Method in Mathematical
Finance, University of California Santa Barbara, June 22-27, 2008
AMS 2008 Spring Central Section
Meeting,
University of Indiana, April 5-6, 2008
32nd SIAM Southeaster-Atlantic
SectionConference, University of Central Florida, March 14-15, 2008
MidWest Finance Association 57th
Annual Meeting, San Antonio, February 27-March 1, 2008
Universit di Roma TorVergata, Roma, Italy, November 9,
2007
University of
Louisville, April 7, 2007 PRMIA (Professional Risk Managers
International Association) Event,
Charlotte Chapter, April 2, 2007 University of
Michigan, Ann Arbor, December7,
2006 Universit
degli Studi di Padova,
Padova,Italy, July 18, 2006
Universit
degli Studi di Perugia,
Perugia, Italy, July 12, 2006
Risk Measurement and Control
Summer School,
Swiss Institute of Rome, Italy, June 20-28, 2006
AMS 2006 Spring
Southeastern Meeting, Florida
International University, Miami, April 1-2, 2006
University
of Texas at Austin, Austin,
March 10, 2006
Bachelier Seminar, Institut
HenriPoincar, Paris, France, January 13, 2006
SAMSI Financial Mathematics,
Statistics and Econometrics Kickoff Tutorials and Workshops, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, September 18-21, 2005 13th INFORMS Applied Probability Conference, Ottawa, Canada, July 6-8, 2005
University of Munich, Munich, Germany, June16,
2005
Swiss Federal Institute of
Technology Zurich (ETH), Zurich, Switzerland, May 19, 2005
Boston University, Boston, November 19,
2004
QuantCongress, New York, November 1-2, 2004 6th Columbia-JAFEE Conference on The Mathematics of Finance,
Columbia University, New York, October 8-9, 2004
North
Carolina State University, Raleigh, September 24, 2004
Bachelier Finance Society 3rd World Congress, Chicago, July 21-24,
2004
Bachelier Finance
Society 2nd World Congress,
Crete, Greece, June 12-15, 2002
5th Columbia-JAFEE Conference on The Mathematics of Finance,
Columbia University, New York, April 5-6, 2002
Honors and John H. Biggs Faculty Fellowship, University of North
Carolina at Charlotte, 2007, total amount: $7,000
Awards
National Science Foundation (NSF) grant from Decision, Risk
and Management Science Program (SES-0518869), August 15, 2005 - July 31, 2008,
total amount: $67,287
SAMSI
new researcher fellowship (NSF), September - December 2005, total amount:
$20,000
Advisor JingLi, Ph.D. candidate,
UNC-Charlotte
Risk
minimizing portfolio optimizaiton and hedging with conditional Value-at-Risk
LihongXia,Ph.D.
candidate, UNC-Charlotte
StephanieBosak,
Honors Senior Thesis, UNC-Charlotte, 2007
Simulation
based testing for compliance under FAS133 - accounting for derivative
instruments and hedging activities
Mayo Suzuki, Senior Project,
UNC-Charlotte, 2005
Social security are private accounts good
ideas?