Awards

Scholarships, Awards & Research Grants

2014. MITACS Accelerate with Jianxi Su (a Ph.D. Candidate).

2014 - 2019. Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada Individual Discovery Grant for the project ``Quantitative methods for modelling and pricing dependenent insurance risks''.

2011. Coauthored a paper that was awarded the Fortis Chair Prize for the best paper published/presented in 2010 in the Insurance: Mathematics and Economics journal/congress.

2009. Coauthored a paper that was awarded the Fortis Chair Prize for the best paper published/presented in 2008 in the Insurance: Mathematics and Economics journal/congress.

2009. York University Junior Faculty Research Grant.

2008 - 2014. Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada Individual Discovery Grant for the project "Dependence concepts and multivariate probability models in financial risk measurement".

2007. Research Grant of Zimmerman Foundation of Banking and Finance for the research "From Risk measurement to risk management: a mixed approach" (with Makov, U. and Zitikis, R.)

2007. The Society of Actuaries (SOA) AERF/CKER 2007 Individual Grants Competition award (with Zitikis, R.)

2007. The Caesarea Edmond Benjamin de Rothschild Foundation Institute for Interdisciplinary Applications of Computer Science visitors' grant (with Makov, U. and Zitikis, R.)

2006 - 2007. Doctorate Scholarship of the University of Haifa (declined.)

2006. Award of Zimmerman Foundation of Banking and Finance for the work "On some layer-based risk measures with applications to the exponential dispersion family".

2006. The Wolf Foundation Research Prize for outstanding PhD students.

2005 - 2006. Doctorate Scholarship of the University of Haifa.

2005. Award of Haifa University for M.A. Thesis Work.

2005. Award of Zimmerman Foundation of Banking and Finance for the work "The tail variance premium and the multivariate elliptical portfolio of risks".

2004 - 2005. Doctorate Scholarship of the University of Haifa.

2003. Scholarship of Haifa University for M.A. Thesis Proposal.

2003. Award of Zimmerman Foundation of Banking and Finance (2003) for the work "On the tail conditional expectation risk measure for the dependent multivariate gamma risks".