Jing Cao
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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]
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]