Biography:Jia Li

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Short description: Chinese-American statistician and computer scientist

Jia Li is a Chinese-American statistician and computer scientist known for her research on image annotation and image retrieval. She is a professor of statistics and of computer science at Pennsylvania State University.[1]

Education and career

Li studied information and control engineering at Xi'an Jiaotong University, graduating with a bachelor's degree in 1993. She went to Stanford University for graduate study, earning master's degrees in electrical engineering and statistics in 1995 and 1998 respectively, and completing a Ph.D. in electrical engineering in 1999.[1] Her dissertation, Image Classification and Compression Based on a Two-Dimensional Multiresolution Hidden Markov Model, was supervised by Robert M. Gray.[2]

She joined Penn State in 2000 after a year of research at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center. She worked at the National Science Foundation as a program director from 2011 to 2013, and has been editor-in-chief of the journal Statistical Analysis and Data Mining from 2018 to 2020.[1]

Recognition

Li became a Fellow of the American Statistical Association in 2019.[3] She was named as a 2020 IEEE Fellow, "for contributions to real-time automatic image annotation and image retrieval".[4]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 "Jia Li", People (Penn State Department of Statistics), https://science.psu.edu/stat/people/jol2, retrieved 2023-12-02 
  2. Jia Li at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  3. ASA Fellows, American Statistical Association, https://ww2.amstat.org/fellows/, retrieved 2023-12-02 
  4. IEEE Signal Processing Society Announces 2020 Class of Fellows, IEEE Signal Processing Society, 1 January 2020, https://2020.ieeeicassp.org/general/society-awards/sps-elevated-fellow-members/index.html, retrieved 2024-12-09