Cheng Hsiao (Chinese: 萧政; born 28 July 1943[1]) is a Taiwanese-American econometrician and statistician who is a professor of economics at the University of Southern California.
[1][2] Hsiao was born in Chongqing and his family moved to Taiwan in 1950, where Hsiao received his primary and secondary education.
His PhD thesis, titled The Combined Use of Cross-Section and Time-Series Data in Econometric Analysis, was supervised by Theodore Wilbur Anderson and Takeshi Amemiya.
[1] Hsiao was an assistant professor in economics at University of California, Berkeley, from 1972 to 1977.
He relocated to the US afterwards and went to the University of Southern California, where he has been a professor of economics since 1985.