Zifeng Zhao

Zifeng Zhao is a Robert and Sara Lumpkins Associate Professor of Business Analytics at the Mendoza College of Business. His research focuses on solving business analytics problems via statistics and machine learning. His interests include change-point analysis, online learning, copula-based dependence modeling and extreme value theory. His research has been applied to areas like revenue management, portfolio optimization, insurance risk classification and pricing. Zhao has a PhD in Statistics and an MS degree in Machine Learning from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and a BS degree in Financial Risk Management from the Chinese University of Hong Kong.