Institute of Statistics

National Tsing Hua University

Hsin-Chu, TAIWAN 30043

886-3-5715131 ext 33161

886-3-5728318 (fax)

chao@stat.nthu.edu.tw

http://chao.stat.nthu.edu.tw/

1973                 B. S. (Mathematics), National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan

1977                 Ph.D. (Statistics), University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA

1977-78            Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics

                         University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, USA

1978-82                  Associate Professor, National Tsing Hua University

1982-present     Professor, National Tsing Hua University

1985-86                        Visiting Scientist, Department of Biostatistics, Harvard University, USA

1986-88, 1991-92, 1996-98       Director, Institute of Statistics, National Tsing Hua University

1994-present   Associate Editor, Biometrics

1998-present   Associate Editor, Journal of Agricultural, Biological, and Environmental Statistics

1991-96, 1999-2005 Associate Editor, Statistica Sinica

2001-present    Associate Editor, Australian & New Zealand Journal of Statistics

Honors:

1989-95      Taiwan National Science Council Award for Outstanding Research

1987           Elected Member of International Statistical Institute

1996                      Distinguished Teaching Award, National Tsing Hua University

1997                 Fellow, Institute of Mathematical Statistics

2001           ISI (Institute of Science Information) Citation Classic Award for two highly-cited papers

                   (Chao, 1984; Chao and Lee, 1992)

2003           Academic Award, Ministry of Education, Taiwan 教育部學術獎

2003           Tsing Hua Chair Professor of Natural Science 清華自然科學講座

2005-2008           Taiwan National Chair Professor 國家講座

Theses Supervised:

     73 Master Theses

17 Ph.D Theses:

Lee, S-M (1990) Estimating population size for closed capture-recapture models via sample coverage. (Feng-Chia University)

Ma, M-C (1992) Stopping rule and estimation for recapture debugging with unequal detection rates. (National Cheng-Kung University)

Hwang, W. D. (1992) Quantifying the effects of unequal catchabilities on Jolly-Seber estimators. (National Cheng-Kung University)

Chu, W-T (1995) A unified martingale estimation approach to estimating parameters of time-specific model. (Feng-Chia University)

Chen, Y-C (1996) The estimation of population size for capture-recapture experiments under Pollock's robust design. (Chia-Nan College of Pharmacy and Science)

Hwang, Wen-Han (1997) Estimating population Size for continuous time capture-recapture experiments. (Department of Applied Mathematics, National Chung-Hsin University)

Tsay, P-K (1997) Comparisons of loglinear model and sample coverage methods in capture-recapture experiments. (Chang-Kang University)

Lin, S-P (2001) Comparison of population size estimation between continuous and discrete capture-recapture experiments. (Chung-Hua University)

Yang, H-C (2002) The applications of Markov chain models and kernel smoothing in capture-recapture experiments. (Institute of Statistical Science, Academia Sinica)

Shen, T.- J. (2003) Prediction of Biodiversity. (Department of Applied Mathematics, National Chung-Hsin University)

Li, P.-C. (2005) Species estimation and similarity indices in quadrat sampling. (Departemnt of Statistics, Feng-Chia University)

(Co-advisee) Lee, P.-L. (2006) Clustering for longitudinal data. (Department of Statistics, Tamkang University)

Chiang, S.-C. (2006) Similarity indices for multiple communities. (Biostatistics Task Force, Taipei Veterans General Hospital)

Pan, H. Y. (2007) Estimation of shared species richess in multiple communities. (National Chia-Yi University)

Han, R.-P. (2008) Statistical estimation of beta diversity. (Central Taiwan University of Science and Technology)

Jiang, Y.-H. (2008) Multiple-community similarity indices under both discrete and continuous diversity data. (University of Oklahoma)

Lin, C.-W. (2009) Estimation of biodiversity in sampling without replacement. (National Tsing Hua university)

Major Research Area:

Biodiversity Estimation, Ecological statistics (Species estimation, population size estimation,

animal abundance estimation, capture-recapture and their applications)

Publications:

A full list of publications is given on the website.