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

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Education and career

Li studied information and control engineering at

Xi'an Jiaotong University Xi'an Jiaotong University (XJTU; zh, p=, c=西安交通大学, labels=no) is a public university in Xi'an, Shaanxi, China. It is affiliated with and funded by the Ministry of Education of China. The university is part of Project 211, Project 9 ...

, graduating with a bachelor's degree in 1993. She went to

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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. Her dissertation, ''Image Classification and Compression Based on a Two-Dimensional Multiresolution Hidden Markov Model'', was supervised by Robert M. Gray. She joined Penn State in 2000 after a year of research at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center. She worked at the

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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.

Recognition

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

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