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.
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. 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 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.
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".
References
- ^ "Jia Li", People, Penn State Department of Statistics, retrieved 2023-12-02
- Jia Li at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ASA Fellows, American Statistical Association, retrieved 2023-12-02
- IEEE Signal Processing Society Announces 2020 Class of Fellows, IEEE Signal Processing Society, 1 January 2020, retrieved 2024-12-09
External links
- Home page
- Jia Li publications indexed by Google Scholar
- 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