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
[edit]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
[edit]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
[edit]- ^ a b "Jing Cao, Ph.D.", Statistics faculty directory, Southern Methodist University, retrieved 2025-04-27
- ^ Pursehouse, Clive (28 June 2024), "Harvard Data Science Review uses big data to examine wine", Decanter, retrieved 2025-04-27
- ^ Pre-doctoral degrees as listed on Cao's home page, accessed 2025-04-27
- ^ a b Curriculum vitae (PDF), retrieved 2025-04-27
- ^ Jing Cao at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ^ Fellows, American Association of Wine Economists, 30 July 2019, retrieved 2025-04-27
- ^ ASA Recognizes 2025 Founders and Fellows, American Statistical Association, 21 April 2025, retrieved 2025-04-27
External links
[edit]- Home page
- Jing Cao publications indexed by Google Scholar
