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Jing Tao

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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]

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  1. ^ a b Norman Campus Faculty Tribute Awards, University of Oklahoma, 2021, retrieved 2024-11-04
  2. ^ Jing Tao at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  3. ^ 2023 Oklahoma–Arkansas Newsletter (PDF), Mathematical Association of America, p. 4, retrieved 2024-11-04
  4. ^ 2025 Class of Fellows of the AMS, American Mathematical Society, retrieved 2024-11-04
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