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Jonathan Li is an Associate Professor of Analytics and the Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) Financial Group Professor in Risk Analytics at the Telfer School of Management, University of Ottawa. He serves as the Principal Coordinator of the Center for Responsible Wealth Transition and leads the Risk Intelligence and Resilient Solutions cluster. His research is supported by NSERC, SSHRC, and Mitacs, and has been published in flagship journals such as Management Science and Operations Research. He spearheads Telfer’s Business Analytics Master’s program and teaches courses in Predictive Analytics, Financial Risk Management, Multivariate Research Methods, and Foundations for Quantitative Methods at the master's level, as well as Advanced Quantitative Analysis and Optimization at the PhD level.Specializing in quantitative and algorithmic methodologies, Jonathan develops cutting-edge optimization and machine learning tools that drive data-driven decision-making in complex, evolving environments. His work empowers decision-makers to navigate uncertainty and optimize outcomes across sectors, including finance (e.g., portfolio management, asset pricing, fraud detection, and regulatory compliance), operations management (e.g., capacity planning, inventory management, and revenue management), and healthcare (e.g., patient triage and clinical risk assessment). His research focuses on managing market, credit, operational, and emerging risks driven by hard-to-predict phenomena such as market and individual behaviour, climate change, technology disruption, and supply and demand dynamics.As the RBC Financial Group Professor in Risk Analytics, his research program focuses on creating intelligent risk management solutions through cutting-edge methodologies in financial econometrics, optimization, and advanced machine learning, including foundational models, large language models, and deep reinforcement learning.He holds a PhD in Operations Research (Financial Engineering specialization) from the University of Toronto, where his dissertation won first place at the CORS Paper Competition and was a finalist for the INFORMS Financial Services Section Paper Competition. He was a recipient of the Emerging Researcher Award at Telfer.

Listed skills include Mathematical Modeling, Operations Research, Optimization, Numerical Analysis, and 13 others.