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After graduation with his B.Sc. in Mathematics from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Xian Zhou went overseas to study at University of California at Santa Barbara, where he completed his M.A. in Statistics and Ph.D. in Mathematics.

Before joining Macquarie University, he worked at University of Western Australia and The Hong Kong Polytechnic University as Lecturer, Assistant Professor and Associate Professor. His research interests include survival analysis, actuarial science, and stochastic scheduling. He has jointly published over 60 papers in these areas on international journals, including Annals of Statistics, Journal of American Statistical Association, Biometrika, Biometrics, Insurance Mathematics and Economics, Operations Research, and Journal of Scheduling.

Xian Zhou has played active roles in actuarial education, including the Programme Leader for B.Sc. (Honours) in Actuarial Science at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University and teaching major actuarial subjects such as risk theory, survival analysis, loss models and credibility theory, at both undergraduate and Masters levels.