Amin Hassan Zadeh

Adjunct Professor
Email: ahassan@stats.uwo.ca


Dr. Amin Hassan Zadeh is presently a Professor of Practice at Oregon State University. He was previously a visiting associate professor at the Smeal’s Business School, Pennsylvania State University. From 2011 to 2019, he served as a faculty member at the National University of Iran's (now Shahid Beheshti University) Department of Actuarial Science. Amin has supervised more than 20 master's thesis and 4 Ph.D. actuarial science students. He has a strong background in the insurance industry in addition to his research and teaching. He is a Certified Appointed Actuary in Iran as well as an ASA and ACIA. Amin is interested in researching life insurance mathematics, decentralized insurance, modelling and forecasting mortality rates, and quantitative finance in insurance.


Research Areas

  • Decentralized Insurance
  • Quantitative finance in insurance
  • Modelling and forecasting mortality rates
  • Life insurance and pension mathematics

 

Graduate Students Supervision

  • Amir Hossein Amini Manesh, (UWO, supervised jointly with Dr. Kristina Sendova)
  • Arman Rostami (National University of Iran), PHD, completed 2024
  • Raoufeh Asghari (National University of Iran), PHD, completed 2020
  • YanYan Zang (UWO, supervised jointly with Dr. David Stanford), PHD, completed 2014

 

Publications (selected)

  • Amin Hassan Zadeh, Soroush AmirHashchi. Modelling Joint Lifetimes of Couples by Using Bivariate Phase-type Distributions. Submitted (2024).
  • Arman Rostami, Amin Hassan Zadeh. Modelling Jumps in Mortality and Assets: A Phase-type Approach with Mixed Fractional Brownian Motion. Submitted (2024).
  • Arman Rostami, Amin Hassan Zadeh. A Markovian aging process forecasting Model: predicting US mortality. North American Actuarial Journal. (2024).
  • Raufe Asghari and Amin Hassan Zadeh. Some applications of phase-type distributions in recurrent events. JIRRS. (2024). To appear.
  • Ali Garavand, Cirruse  Salehnasab, Ali Behmanesh, Nasim Aslani, Amin Hassan Zadeh, Mustafa Ghaderzadeh. Efficient model for coronary artery disease diagnosis: A comparative study of several machine learning algorithms. Journal of Healthcare Engineering. (2022).
  • Mohsen Asadi, Iman Izadi, Amin Hassan Zadeh and Fan Yang.  Performance assessment of alarm systems for mixture processes and intermittent faults. Journal of Process Control. (2022).
  • Raufe Asghari and Amin Hassan Zadeh. Mortality modeling of skin cancer patients with actuarial applications. North American Actuarial Journal (2020) 24 (4), 495-511.
  • Amin Hassan Zadeh and David Stanford. Credibility theory in phase--type distributions with univariate risk parameter. Scandinavian Actuarial Journal 2016 (4), 338-355.
  • Amin Hassan Zadeh, Bruce L. Jones and David Stanford. The use of phase--type models for disability insurance calculations.  Scandinavian Actuarial Journal 2014 (8), 714-728.
  • Amin Hassan Zadeh and Martin Bilodeau. Fitting bivariate loss data by a phase-type distribution. Scandinavian Actuarial Journal, 2013 (4), 241-262.