Chengxiu Ling PhD

Associate Professor

Chenxiu Ling, PhD in Actuarial Science in 2014 from University of Lausanne, Switzerland, an associate professor in Academy of Pharmacy since 2021.07 at Xian' Jiaotong-Liverpool University, winner of international discipline leader awarded in 2021-2022 by Dushu Lake, Higher education district, SIP, Suzhou, China. She is elected as "Jiangsu Province Young and middle-aged academic leaders" during 2022.07-2025.06. She has been working as the Programme Director of BSc Actuarial Science during 2019.09-2021.06 at XJTLU. Her principal research interests are extreme value analysis with applications in natural disaster risks, biostatistics, public health, quantitative risk management and extremes of Gaussian random fields. She represents Council member in Society of the Applied Statistics in Jiangsu Province during 2022--2025.


  • BSc, Southwest University, China, 2002
  • MSc., Southwest University, China, 2005
  • PhD, University of Lausanne, Switzerland, 2014


  • Associate Professor, Southwest University, China, 2016-2018
  • Associate Professor, Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, 2019


  • Extreme cluster structure
  • Extreme analysis of random processes
  • Multivariate risk measures and its asymptotic analysis
  • Extreme value theory and its applications in risk management


  • Liu, C., Ling, C.* (2019a) A location-invariant non-positive moment-type estimator of the extreme value index. Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods. 48(5): 1166-1176.
  • Ling, C. (2019c). Extremes of stationary random fi elds on a lattice. Extremes, 22(3): 391{411.
  • Ling, C. (2019b). Asymptotics of multivariate conditional risk measures for Gaussian risks. Insurance: Mathematics and Economics, 86: 205-215.
  • Ling, C.*, Zhang, H. (2020). On generalized Berman constants. Methodology and Computing in Applied Probability. 22(3): 1125-1143.
  • Albin, J.M.P., Hashorva, E., Ji, L., Ling, C.* (2016) Extremes and limit theorems for difference of chi-type processes. ESAIM: Probability and Statistics. 20: 349–366.
  • Ling, C.*, Peng, Z. (2016) Tail asymptotics of generalized deflated risks with insurance applications. Insurance: Mathematics and Economics. 71: 220–231.
  • Ling, C.*, Peng, Z. (2016) Extremes of order statistics of self-similar processes. Science Sinica Mathematics. 46(8): 1139–1148.
  • Debicki, K., Hashorva, E., Ji, L., Ling, C.* (2017) Comparison inequalities for order statistics of Gaussian arrays. Latin American Journal of Probability and Mathematical Statistics. 14 1–25.
  • Ling, C., Peng, Z., Tan, Z.* (2018) Extremes on different grids and continuous time of stationary processes. Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications. 461(1): 150-168.
  • Liu, C., Ling, C.* (2018) A location-invariant non-positive moment-type estimator of the extreme value index. Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods (in press).
  • Gong, C., Ling, C.* (2018) Robust estimations for the tail index of Weibull-type distributions. Risks, 6:119.


  • May 9, 2019. Invited talk on 2nd Seminar on Actuarial Science and Statistics by Dep. of Mathematical Sciences at XJTLU and Dep. of Statistics at Soochow University
  • May 18-19, 2019. Contributed talk " Asymptotics of Multivariate Conditional risk measures of Gaussian Risks in First International Conference on Extreme Value Analysis held by East Normal University, Shanghai, China
  • July 1-5, 2019. Contributed talk \Asymptotics of Multivariate Conditional risk measures of Gaussian Risks" in 11th international conference on Extreme Value Analysis, Zagreb, Croatia
  • October 28-November 1, 2019. Invited talk on Extremes workshop at Fudan University, China
  • December 12-14, 2019. Contributed talk in 14th International Conference on Computational and Financial Econometrics (CFEconomics2020) & 13th Computational and Methodological Statistics (CMStatistics2020) at Kings College London, UK
  • Contributed talk ”Tail asymptotics of generalized deflated risks with insurance applications?” The 3th International Workshop on Statistical Modelling of Heavy-Tail Phenomena with Applica-tions, Zhejiang Gongshang University, Hangzhou, China, June 2016
  • Contributed talk ”Asymptotics of multivariate conditional risk measures of Gaussian risks” The International Workshop on Risks in Insurance and Finance, Northwest Normal University, Lanzhou, China, June 2018
  • Contributed talk ”How sensitive are tail-related risk measures in a contamination neighbourhood” The 4th International Workshop on Statistical Modelling of Heavy-Tail Phenomena with Applica-tions, Xi’an jiaotong-Liverpool University, Suzhou, China, June 2018
  • Invited talk ”How sensitive are tail-related risk measures in a contamination neighbourhood?” International Symposium on Financial Engineering and Risk Management, Fudan University, Shang-hai, China, June 2018


  • Ling, C. 12.2021-12.2024, Principal Investigator, Extreme Risk of Public Health due to Contagious Diseases and Extreme Weather Events, Post-graduate Research Scholarship (PGRS) in XJTLU (2112022)
  • Ling C. 09.2016-12.2018, Principal Investigator, Extremal Analysis of Extremal Modelling, Postdoctoral Science Foundation of China (2016M602624)
  • Ling, C. 09.2020 - 09.2023, Principal Investigator, Extreme Cluster Analysis with Applications in Climate Changes and Risk Management, Research Development Fund (RDF) in XJTLU (19-02-07)
  • Ling, C. 09.2020 -09.2023, Principal Investigator, Extreme Cluster Analysis with Applications in Climate Changes and Risk Management, Post-graduate Research Scholarship (PGRS) in XJTLU (1912017)
  • Ling, C. 2017-2019, Principal Investigator, Quantitative analysis of extremal risk aggregations models”, National Natural Science Foundation of China, No. 11604375, RMB 180, 000


  • Programme Director of BSc Actuarial Science during 2019.09-2021.06.


  • APH402 Probability, MSc Applied Statistics (Biostatistics)
  • MTH303 Linear Statistical Models, Actuarial Science and Financial Mathematics
  • MTH120 Theory of Interest, Actuarial Science


  • Young and middle-aged academic leaders in Jiangsu Province during 2022.07-2025.06.
  • Winner of international discipline leader (young scientists) awarded in 2021-2022 by Dushu Lake, Higher education district, SIP, Suzhou, China
Chengxiu Ling