Anne Chao

Chao graduated from National Tsing Hua University with a Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in mathematics in 1973. She then pursued doctoral studies in the United States, earning her Ph.D. in statistics in 1977 from the University of Wisconsin–Madison.^[1] Her dissertation, supervised by Bernard Harris, was The Quadrature Method in Inference Problems Arising From the Generalized Multinomial Distribution.^[5]

After working for a year as a visiting assistant professor at the University of Michigan, she returned to National Tsing Hua University as a faculty member in 1978. She was Taiwan National Chair Professor there from 2005 to 2008, and became Tsing Hua Distinguished Chair Professor in 2006.^[1]

With Lou Jost, Chao is the author of Diversity Analysis (Taylor & Francis, 2008; Chapman & Hall, 2017). She is also the author of Statistical Estimation of Biodiversity Indices (Wiley, 2017) with Chun-Huo Chiu and Jost.^[1]

Chao was elected as a fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics in 1997.^[1] She is also an elected member of the International Statistical Institute.^[6] Chao has described herself as "60% statistician, 30% mathematician and 10% ecologist".^[7]

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