Presidential Fellows

CHIA-CHUN CHIANG-2012 Scholarmajor & degree: Business Administration, Ph.D.hometown: Taipei, Taiwancontact: chiangc@email.sc.eduI received my bachelor’s degree in finance and master’s degree ininsurance from National Taiwan University. Before coming to the Universityof South Carolina, I worked for Cathay Life Insurance Corporation,where I was inspired to pursue a Ph.D. in finance after dealingwith a complicated type of insurance product at my work in 2008.While I was in charge of evaluating a hedging program for investmentguaranteed products at that time, unexpected risks significantlyreduced expected hedging effectiveness. The first-hand encounter with the 2008 financial crisisinspired me to seek advanced risk management study in the field of finance. I intend to research riskmanagement for financial institutions. In particular, I want to define measures that can help identifyand control risks.CASEY COLE-2015 Scholarmajor & degree: Computer Science & Engineering, Ph.D.hometown: Urbana, OHcontact: coleca@email.sc.eduI came to the University of South Carolina in 2011 and graduated in May2015 with a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science. During my fouryears at USC I worked as an undergraduate researcher in the ComputationalBiology Lab under Dr. Homayoun Valafar. It was there that Idiscovered my passion for the field of bioinformatics/computationalsciences. In my doctoral program at USC I plan to continue my work atthe Computational Biology lab studying protein structure and dynamics.9