Brief CV

Anne Chao ( 趙蓮菊 )

Address:

Institute of Statistics and Data Science, National Tsing Hua University, Hsin-Chu, Taiwan 30043

Tel:

886-3-5715131 ext 33161

E-mail: 

chao@stat.nthu.edu.tw

Website:

chao-lab-website

Google Scholar https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=P-rr9foAAAAJ&hl=en

Research Gate https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Anne_Chao

Github https://github.com/AnneChao

Education: 

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

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

Experiences: 

• Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics, University of Michigan, USA (1977–1978);

• Associate Professor (1978–1982), Professor (1982–1988), and Director (1986–1988), Institute of Applied Mathematics, National Tsing Hua University;  

• Visiting Scientist, Department of Biostatistics, Harvard University, USA (1985–1986); 

• Professor (1988–2022) and Director (1991–1992, 1996–1998), Institute of Statistics, National Tsing Hua University;

• Distinguished Chair Professor (2006–2022), and College of Science Emerita Chair Professor (2022–), National Tsing Hua University

Major Professional Services:

1994-2013       Associate Editor, Biometrics

1998-2011       Associate Editor, Journal of Agricultural, Biological, and Environmental Statistics

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

2001-2009       Associate Editor, Australian & New Zealand Journal of Statistics

2015- 2019        Associate Editor, Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Referees for various journals in biology, ecology, statistics, epidemiology and related sciences.

Honors:

1990-95        Taiwan National Science Council Award for Outstanding Research (傑出研究獎三次)

1987             Elected Member of International Statistical Institute

1996             Best Teaching Award, National Tsing Hua University (傑出教學獎)

1997             Fellow, Institute of Mathematical Statistics

2001             ISI 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)

2005-2008     Taiwan National Chair Professor (國家講座)

2006-2022     Tsing Hua Distinguished Chair Professor (清華特聘講座)

2013       Lifetime Achievement Award, Statistical Society, Taiwan (統計學社終身成就獎 )

2017      Sun Yat-sen Chair in Ecology and Evolution, China   (中國孫中山生態及演化講座 )

2022             Distinguished Fellow, International Biogeography Society

2022-      College of Science Emerita Chair Professor, National Tsing Hua University

Major Research Area:

Ecological statistics and biodiversity estimation

• Species estimation and population size estimation

• Animal abundance models and estimation

• Capture-recapture models and their applications

• Bio-diversity indices (species, phylogenetic and functional diversities) and their estimation

• Biological sampling methods

Citations and Recent Plenary Talks After 2015:

A full list of publications is given on the website.

The total number of citations in Google Scholar > 54,500 citations (Accessed on August 2025)

(1) Plenary speaker, 2016 British Ecological Society Annual Meeting, December 2016, Liverpool, UK.

(2) Plenary speaker, 2018 Australian Ecological Society Annual Conference, November 2018, Brisbane, Australia.

(3) Plenary speaker, 2019 International Congress of Conservation Biology (ICCB), July 2019, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

(4) Keynote speaker, 54th Annual Meeting of the Ecological Society of Germany, Austria and Switzerland, September 2025, Wurzburg, Germany 

Software and User’s Guide: (freely downloadable from the software page)

• CARE (CApture-REcapture) including

          CARE-1: for capture-recapture epidemiological data

          CARE-2: for discrete-time capture-recapture models

          CARE-3 : for continuous-time capture-recapture models

          CARE-4 : for Markov chain capture-recapture models

• SPADE (Species Prediction And Diversity Estimation): for biodiversity data analyses

• iNEXT (Interpolation/EXTrapolation)

• iNEXT.4steps (Interpolation/EXTrapolation — 4-step analysis including sample completeness, iNEXT and evenness)

• iNEXT.3D (Interpolation/EXTrapolation for taxonomic, phylogenetic, and functional diversity)

• iNEXT.beta3D (Interpolation/EXTrapolation with beta diversity)

• iNEXT.link (Network diversity Interpolation/EXTrapolation)