Jing Tao

Jing Tao is a mathematician at the University of Oklahoma, where she holds an Anadarko Petroleum Corporation Presidential Professorship. Her research interests concern low-dimensional topology and geometric group theory, including mapping class groups and Teichmüller theory.^[1]

Tao was a student of Howard Masur at the University of Illinois Chicago, where she completed her Ph.D. in 2009. Her dissertation was Linearly bounded conjugator property for mapping class groups.^[2] She joined the University of Oklahoma mathematics department in 2012, and was given the Anadarko Petroleum Corporation Presidential Professorship in 2021.^[1] She was promoted to full professor in 2022.^[3]

Tao was elected as a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society, in the 2025 class of fellows.^[4]