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 caption ...

. 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 university, public Commonwealth System of Higher Education, state-related Land-grant university, land-grant research university with campuses and facilities throughout Pennsylvan ...

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 strengths i ...

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

Stanford University Stanford University, officially Leland Stanford Junior University, is a private research university in Stanford, California. The campus occupies , among the largest in the United States, and enrolls over 17,000 students. Stanford is consider ...

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 com ...

. She joined Penn State after a year of postdoctoral research at the

Xerox Palo Alto Research Center Xerox Holdings Corporation (; also known simply as Xerox) is an American corporation that sells print and digital document products and services in more than 160 countries. Xerox is headquartered in Norwalk, Connecticut (having moved from Stamf ...

. 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 I ...

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".

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Li, Jia 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