Mentor: Hajin Kim, Assistant Professor, Law School
Mel Xiao is a Mathematics student at the University of Chicago. Previously, Mel worked as a research intern at the University of Calgary’s Mathematical and Computational Finance Lab, studying the application of stochastic processes to wind derivative pricing. Mel also worked as a research assistant at the Werklund School of Education, contributing to a literature review examining girls’ performance in standardized math testing. Mel is passionate about researching the use of complex models to model real-world problems in the sustainability sector.