Biography:Jing Cao
Jing Cao is a statistician whose research interests include Bayesian statistics, clinical trials, text mining,[1] and the application of sentiment analysis in the statistics of wine tasting.[2] She is a professor of statistics at Southern Methodist University, where she is director of graduate studies in statistics.[1]
Education and career
Cao studied applied mathematics at Qingdao University, graduating in 1997, and received a master's degree in economics at Xiamen University in 2000.[3] She completed a Ph.D. in statistics in 2005 at the University of Missouri.[4] Her dissertation, Bayesian Hierarchical Modeling in Nest Survival Studies, was supervised by Zhuoqiong He.[5]
She joined Southern Methodist University as an assistant professor of statistical science in 2005. She was promoted to associate professor in 2011 and full professor in 2021.[4]
Recognition
Cao was named as a Fellow of the American Association of Wine Economists (AAWE) in 2017, after previously winning a best presentation award at an AAWE conference and publishing several papers on the statistics of wine tasting.[6]
She was elected to the 2025 class of Fellows of the American Statistical Association.[7]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Jing Cao, Ph.D.", Statistics faculty directory (Southern Methodist University), https://www.smu.edu/dedman/academics/departments/statistics/people/facultydirectory/jcao, retrieved 2025-04-27
- ↑ Pursehouse, Clive (June 28, 2024), "Harvard Data Science Review uses big data to examine wine", Decanter, https://www.decanter.com/wine-news/harvard-data-science-review-uses-big-data-to-examine-wine-533006/, retrieved 2025-04-27
- ↑ Pre-doctoral degrees as listed on Cao's home page, accessed 2025-04-27
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Curriculum vitae, https://www.smu.edu/-/media/site/dedman/departments/statistics/faculty/jingcao_webcv.pdf, retrieved 2025-04-27
- ↑ Jing Cao at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ↑ Fellows, American Association of Wine Economists, 30 July 2019, https://wine-economics.org/about/fellows/, retrieved 2025-04-27
- ↑ ASA Recognizes 2025 Founders and Fellows, American Statistical Association, April 21, 2025, https://www.amstat.org/news-listing/2025/04/21/asa-recognizes-2025-founders-and-fellows, retrieved 2025-04-27
External links
- Home page
- Jing Cao publications indexed by Google Scholar
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