Ting-Kam Leonard Wong

Assistant Professor

Department of Statistical Sciences
University of Toronto
St George office: Hydro Building, Room 9114

Department of Computer and Mathematical Sciences
University of Toronto Scarborough
UTSC office: Instructional Centre, Room 345

E-mail: tkl.wong"at"utoronto.ca




About me

I am a tenure stream assistant professor in statistics at the Department of Computer and Mathematical Sciences, University of Toronto Scarborough and the Department of Statistical Sciences, University of Toronto. I work mainly on probability and mathematical finance.

Before joining U of T in July 2018, I was a non-tenure track assistant professor in financial mathematics at the Department of Mathematics, University of Southern California. I received my PhD in Mathematics from University of Washington in 2016 under the supervison of Soumik Pal. I also completed an MPhil in Mathematics at The Chinese University of Hong Kong under the guidance of Ka Sing Lau.

Research

Research interests:
Mathematical finance, probability, optimal transport, information geometry, and their applications.
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Funding:
My research is partially supported by NSERC Discovery Grant RGPIN-2019-04419.
In 2020 I received a Connaught New Researcher Award.

Current students:
Steven Campbell (Statistics, cosupervised by Yuchong Zhang)
Madhu Gunasingam (Statistics)
Amanjit Kainth (Computer Science, cosupervised by Frank Rudzicz)

Preprints and submitted papers

Accepted and published papers

Other manuscripts and works


Teaching

Current courses
Previous courses