Jie Gao is a Chinese-American computer scientist whose research has applied methods from computational geometry to applied problems including the analysis of sensor networks, robot navigation, and location privacy.
She is a professor of computer science at Rutgers University.
Gao was a student in the Special Class for the Gifted Young at the University of Science and Technology of China, where she received a bachelor's degree in 1999.
[1] She became a student of Leonidas J. Guibas at Stanford University, where she completed her Ph.D. in 2004 with the dissertation Hierarchical Data Structures for Mobile Networks,[2] with the support of an IBM Ph.D Fellowship.
[3] After postdoctoral research at the California Institute of Technology, she became an assistant professor of computer science at Stony Brook University in 2005.