Upon graduating from The University of Michigan, Dr. Song-Ping Zhu took a Research Fellow position at the Centre for Water Research, The University of Western Australia. He worked there for two years, before moving to the Department of Mathematics, The University of Wollongong, Australia in January 1991 to take a Lecturer position. He was promoted to a Senior Lecturer at the beginning of 1995 and then to an Associate Professor at the beginning of 1997. Being promoted to full professor in 2007. He was promoted to Senior Professor in 2015. An honour that has only been given to a small number of faculty members at the University of Wollongong to recognise their achievements in research excellence beyond professorial level. He has successfully supervised 14 Honours students (three of whom were awarded a university medal), 8 research Masters students and 13 PhD students to their graduation. Currently, he has 3 PhD students under his supervision.
Potential Supervision Topics:
A topic in the area of Financial Mathematics suitable to candidates' undergraduate background;
A topic in the area of Computational Finance suitable to candidates' undergraduate background;