Jia earned a bachelor's degree in 1982 from the Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications. She joined the UNSW Australian Defence Force Academy School of Engineering and Information Technology in 1988, earning a PhD in 1996 from the University of New South Wales.[1][3]
Recognition
Jia was named a Fellow of the IEEE in 2021, "for contributions to feature mining and classification of hyperspectral images".[4]