Jia Li is a Professor of Statistics and (by courtesy) Computer Science
at the Pennsylvania State University. Her research interests include
machine learning, artificial intelligence, probabilistic graph models,
and image analysis. She was Editor-in-Chief for Statistical Analysis
and Data Mining: the ASA Data Science Journal from January 2018 to
December 2020. She worked as a Program Director at the National
Science Foundation from 2011 to 2013, a Visiting Scientist at Google
Labs in Pittsburgh from 2007 to 2008, a researcher at the Xerox Palo
Alto Research Center from 1999 to 2000, and a Research Associate in
the Computer Science Department at Stanford University in 1999. She
received the M.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering (1995), the
M.Sc. degree in Statistics (1998), and the Ph.D. degree in Electrical
Engineering (1999), from Stanford University. She is Fellow of
IEEE and Fellow of ASA.