Xinyi Kang is a postgraduate researcher in the Department of Mathematics at King's College London. Prior to her doctoral studies, Xinyi completed two master’s degrees: an MSc in Actuarial Management at Bayes Business School, City, University of London, and an MSc in Risk Management and Financial Engineering at Imperial College London.

Research interests

• Extreme value theory

• Statistical inference with scarce data

• Machine learning techniques for extreme risk prediction

PhD supervision

First supervisor: Dr Claudia Neves

Second supervisor: Dr Davide Pigoli