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.