Andrew Yao
Andrew Chi-Chih Yao | |||||||||
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| 姚期智 | |||||||||
Yao in 2015 | |||||||||
| Born | December 24, 1946 | ||||||||
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| Education | National Taiwan University (BS) Harvard University (MA, PhD) University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (PhD) | ||||||||
| Known for | Yao's principle | ||||||||
| Spouse | Frances Yao | ||||||||
| Awards | George Pólya Prize (1987) Knuth Prize (1996) Turing Award (2000) Kyoto Prize (2021) | ||||||||
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| Fields | Computer science Theoretical physics | ||||||||
| Institutions | Massachusetts Institute of Technology Stanford University University of California, Berkeley Princeton University Tsinghua University Chinese University of Hong Kong | ||||||||
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| Doctoral advisor | Sheldon Glashow (Harvard) Chung Laung Liu (Illinois) | ||||||||
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| Chinese | 姚期智 | ||||||||
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Andrew Chi-Chih Yao (Chinese: 姚期智; pinyin: Yáo Qīzhì; born December 24, 1946) is a Chinese computer scientist, physicist, and computational theorist. He is currently a professor and the dean of Institute for Interdisciplinary Information Sciences (IIIS) at Tsinghua University. Yao used the minimax theorem to prove what is now known as Yao's principle.
Yao was raised in Taiwan and graduated from National Taiwan University. He earned a master's degree and his PhD in physics from Harvard University, then earned a second doctorate in computer science from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
Yao was a naturalized U.S. citizen, and worked for many years in the U.S. In 2015, together with Yang Chen-Ning, he renounced his U.S. citizenship and became an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.