Tong Pu

Tong Pu

Ph.D. candidate in Statistics

About Me

I am a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Mathematics at Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech), Shenzhen, China. I am currently visiting the Department of Quantitative Economics at University of Amsterdam as a visiting Ph.D. student, funded by the China Scholarship Council (CSC). I am supervised by Professor Yiying Zhang at SUSTech and Professor Roger J.A. Laeven at University of Amsterdam.

Education

Southern University of Science and Technology
Ph.D. candidate in Mathematics | 09/2022 – Present

  • GPA: 3.71/4, Rank: 3/21
  • Supervised by Prof. Yiying Zhang

University of Amsterdam
Visiting Ph.D. student | 10/2024 – 09/2025

  • Department of Quantitative Economics
  • Funded by China Scholarship Council (CSC)
  • Supervised by Prof. Roger J.A. Laeven

Qufu Normal University
M.S. in Statistics | 09/2019 – 07/2022

  • GPA: 3.53/4, Rank: 1/15
  • Supervised by Prof. Chuancun Yin
  • Received Outstanding Dissertation Award of Shandong Province

Qufu Normal University
B.S. in Mathematics and Applied Mathematics | 09/2014 – 07/2018

Research Interests

  • Systemic risks
  • Stochastic orders and preferences
  • Dependence structures
  • Risk management

Selected Awards

  • National Scholarship of China (SUSTech) — 2025
  • BYD Scholarship — 2025
  • Third Prize and Outstanding Student Speaker, National Outstanding Graduate Students Workshop — 2024
  • Outstanding Dissertation Award of Shandong Province — 2023
  • Outstanding Teaching Assistant of SUSTech — 2023 & 2024
  • National Scholarship of China (Qufu Normal University) — 2021
  • Third Prize, 2020 National Graduate Statistical Modeling Competition of China — 2020
  • Honorable Mention, 2017 Mathematical Contest In Modeling — 2017
  • Third Prize, The Seventh Mathematics Competition of Chinese College Students — 2015

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