Jiannan is a Research Associate in the School of Risk and Actuarial Studies, UNSW Business School. Her current research work is on optimal dividend payment strategies in random discrete time. More broadly, her research interests focus on the optimal problems in a dynamic environment, such as game theory with reinsurance-investment problems under mean-variance framework.

Jiannan obtained her PhD form the University of Melbourne in 2022. Her PhD research focused on the optimal control, game theory, time-inconsistent problems. She obtained a BSc degree in Statistics and a MSc degree in Applied Statistics from Jilin University.