Qing (Wendy) Wang
(PhD 2012, adviser: Bruce Lindsay)
Wendy Wang is currently an Associate Professor of Statistics and co-director of the data science program at Wellesley College. Besides teaching undergraduate courses in statistics, she enjoys working with students on statistical research projects. So far, she has supervised over ten students through senior honors theses and summer research programs, and has published six papers with undergraduate coauthors in refereed journals such as Statistics in Medicine, Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation, and Statistics & Probability Letters. On a personal note, her husband, Ivan Simeonov (PhD in statistics, 2012), and she recently welcomed thei second child in March. Wendy says life has been busier than ever, but in a joyful way. Congratulations to Wendy and Ivan!
Ivan Simeonov
(PhD 2012, advisers: John Fricks and Francesca Chiaromonte)
Ivan is currently working as an Assistant Vice President, Business Insurance Analytics and Research team in Travelers Insurance. He started his career in Personal Insurance (PI) and spent five years and half in various roles, focusing on building models to predict observed pure premium (yearly losses) for auto insurance as well as homeowners’ insurance. Ivan spent the last four years in Business Insurance (BI) and currently I he manages a team of five people. Ivan is responsible for BI Distribution, Sales, and Customer Analytics models. The type of work they perform may involve ad-hoc analysis, model monitoring of implemented models, as well as creating new models with different types of responses (numeric, multinomial, logistic,) as well as predictors (categoricals, high cardinality categorical, free form text, numeric).
