Andrew Yao
1946
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photo credits: Wikimedia Commons
country of citizenship: People's Republic of China, United States of America
educated at: Harvard University, National Taiwan University, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, Taipei Municipal Jianguo High School
occupation: computer scientist, university teacher
award received: Guggenheim Fellowship, Turing Award, Knuth Prize, IACR Fellow, ACM Fellow, honorary doctor of the Chinese University of Hong Kong, honorary doctorate from the University of Waterloo, honorary doctor of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, George Pólya Prize, Kyoto Prize in Advanced Technology
official website: iiis.tsinghua.edu.cn/yao
Andrew Chi-Chih Yao (Chinese: 姚期智; pinyin: Yáo Qīzhì; born December 24, 1946) is a Chinese computer scientist 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 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. Source: Wikipedia (en)
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