Chunhui Yu, Ph.D., is a professor of mathematics at Farmingdale State College (SUNY). His research interests are in financial mathematics and mathematics education. Dr. Yu is passionate about student learning beyond the classroom. He has mentored groups of students for their research projects and guided students to success in the professional actuarial exams. Dr. Yu is also a mathematics faculty liaison of the University in the High School (UHS) program.
Courses Taught
Statistics (MTH 110) College Algebra (MTH 116) Pre-Calculus (MTH 129) Calculus I with Applications (MTH 130) Calculus I (MTH 150) Calculus II (MTH 151) Calculus II with Applications (MTH 236) Linear Algebra (MTH 245) Introduction to Financial Mathematics (MTH 246) Quantitative Finance (MTH 346) Methods in Operations Research (MTH 390) Seminar in Applied Mathematics (MTH 405) Financial Engineering (MTH 446) Topics in Applied Mathematics (MTH 490)Education
- Ph.D., Mathematics, The University of Alabama, 2009
- B.Sc., Mathematics, University of Science and Technology of China, 2005
Publications
- Valentina Colon, Sabrina D’Aulisa and Chunhui Yu, Indexed Universal Life Insurance as an Investment Vehicle and a Retirement Saving Account, New York Economic Review, 55 2025, 35-44.
- Christian Farkash, Michael Storm, Thomas Palmeri and Chunhui Yu, Encouraging Undergraduate Students to Explore Multiple Proofs of the Multinomial Theorem, Mathematics Teaching-Research Journal (MTRJ), 16(4) 2024, 154-163.
- Sonia Akakpo, Patrick Dambra, Rachell Paz, Timothy Smyth, Frank Torre and Chunhui Yu, Optimization of the K-Nearest Neighbor Algorithm to Predict Bank Churn, Statistics, Optimization & Information Computing, 12(5) 2024, 1397-1408.
- Carynne Litcher, Chunhui Yu and Xu Zhang, Shortfall Risk in Long-Term hedging with Short-Term Future Contracts: A Two-Commodity Case, New York Economic Review, 52 2022, 5-21.
- Chunhui Yu and Ming Zhou, Relationship between Two Sample and One Sample Confidence Intervals, Proceedings of the New York State Economics Association, 10 2018, 118-123.
- Chunhui Yu, A Note on the Triangle Inequality, Mathematics and Computer Education, 50(2) 2016.
- Javier Garcia and Chunhui Yu, Minimizing Average Risk with Short-Term Futures Hedging, Alabama Journal of Mathematics, 39(Fall) 2015.
- Chunhui Yu, On a New Weighted Hilbert's Type Inequality, International Journal of Mathematical Analysis, 6(32) 2012, 1597-1601.
- Zhijian Wu, Chunhui Yu and Xiaohua Zheng, Managing Risk with Short-Term Futures Contracts, SIAM Journal on Financial Mathematics, 2(1) 2011, 715-726.