Aojie (Jay) Li

MFI Student

Campus

Areas of Interest

  • Basketball
  • Volleyball

Biography

Aojie has strong interpersonal skills demonstrated through working independently and collaboratively in teams. With strong leadership and execution with experience in deep research of mathematical modelling and data analysis, Aojie is interested in working in pension plans, risk modelling and financial analysis.

Experience

Project: 5-year horizon analysis for a new insurance product from AIC
University of Toronto, Jun. 2023 - Aug. 2023

  • Calculated expense augmented premiums.
  • Provided the predicted monthly benefit reserves for the company through recursive formula.
  • Created a profit analysis through simulation under new mortality assumption at portfolio level for the first five years.
  • Carried out a mean-variance optimization analysis & an efficient frontier plot through python.

Project: Hungary Chickenpox Cases Time Series Analysis
McMaster University, Hamilton, Feb. 2022 - Apr. 2022

  • Compared to the datasets. Confirmed that Budapest’s data is representative & selected it as the analysis subject.
  • Analyzed the ACF & PACF plot & hypothesized the model of either AR or ARMA.
  • Observed with ADF test, confirmed the model is ARIMA (2,3), & did the parameter estimation.
  • Draw Residual VS Time, QQ plot, and Residual ACF images to verify the correctness of the Box Test.

CITIC Prudential Life Insurance, Nanjing, China
Finance Intern, May 2021 - Sep. 2021

  • Created spreadsheets using Microsoft Excel for periodic reporting.
  • Developed & analyzed budgets, performing financial statement analysis.
  • Tested budget system & conducted research & analysis on the cost control system.

Skills

  • Technical: Python
  • R Studio
  • MATLAB
  • AXIS
  • AWA Machine Learning
  • Microsoft 365

Professional Certificates & Awards

  • Python for Everybody; Python Data Structure - University of Michigan: 2022
  • Python & Statistics for Financial Analysts - Hong Kong University of Science & Technology: 2022
  • Financial Market - Yale University: 2022

Education

Master of Financial Insurance, University of Toronto, 2023 - 2024
BSc (Honours), Mathematics & Statistics [Specialization in Statistics], Minor Economics, McMaster University, 2023