Jing Cao

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]

Education and career

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]

Recognition

Cao was named as a Fellow of the American Association of Wine Economists (AAWE) in 2017, after previously winning a best presentation award at an AAWE conference and publishing several papers on the statistics of wine tasting.^[6]

She was elected to the 2025 class of Fellows of the American Statistical Association.^[7]