Jia Li is a Chinese-American statistician and computer scientist known for her research on
image retrieval
An image retrieval system is a computer system used for browsing, searching and retrieving images from a large database of digital images. Most traditional and common methods of image retrieval utilize some method of adding metadata such as capti ...
. She is a professor of statistics and of computer science at
Pennsylvania State University
The Pennsylvania State University (Penn State or PSU) is a public state-related land-grant research university with campuses and facilities throughout Pennsylvania. Founded in 1855 as the Farmers' High School of Pennsylvania, Penn State becam ...
.
Education and career
Li studied information and control engineering at
Xi'an Jiaotong University
Xi'an Jiaotong University (XJTU, ) is a public research university in Xi'an, Shaanxi, China. As a member of Double First Class University Plan, C9 League, Project 985, and Project 211, it is a leading national university with special strength ...
, 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. Her dissertation, ''Image Classification and Compression Based on a Two-Dimensional Multiresolution Hidden Markov Model'', was supervised by
Robert M. Gray
Robert M. Gray (born November 1, 1943) is an American information theorist, and the Alcatel-Lucent Professor of Electrical Engineering at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California. He is best known for his contributions to quantization and co ...
.
She joined Penn State after a year of postdoctoral research at the
Xerox Palo Alto Research Center
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. She worked at the
National Science Foundation
The National Science Foundation (NSF) is an independent agency of the United States government that supports fundamental research and education in all the non-medical fields of science and engineering. Its medical counterpart is the National ...
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
Like many other academic professional societies, the American Statistical Association (ASA) uses the title of Fellow of the American Statistical Association as its highest honorary grade of membership. The number of new fellows per year is limited ...
in 2019. She was named as a 2023
IEEE Fellow
As of 2019, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) has 5,082 members designated Fellow, each of whom is associated with one of the 41 societies under the IEEE. The Fellow grade of membership is the highest level of membershi ...
, "for leadership in large-scale AI".
References
External links
Home page*
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Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Chinese statisticians
Chinese computer scientists
Chinese women computer scientists
American statisticians
American women statisticians
American computer scientists
American women computer scientists
Computer vision researchers
Xi'an Jiaotong University alumni
Stanford University alumni
Scientists at PARC (company)
Pennsylvania State University faculty
United States National Science Foundation officials
Fellows of the American Statistical Association
Fellows of the IEEE