Jian Cao obtained his Ph.D. degree in Statistics from King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), under the supervision of Professor Marc Genton at the "spatio-temporal statistics and data science" research group. His research focused on Monte Carlo simulation, hierarchical matrices, tile-low-rank matrices, and solving high dimensional multivariate normal or Student-t probabilities. 

Education and Early Career

• Ph.D. degree from King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
• Master from Shanghai Jiaotong University
• Bachelor from University of Science and Technology of China.

Research Interest

• Scientific computing and high-performance computing