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Andrew Yao
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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.
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Born | (1946-12-24) December 24, 1946 (age 77) | ||||||||
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Alma mater | National Taiwan University (BS) Harvard University (MA, PhD) University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign (PhD) | ||||||||
Known for | Yao's Principle | ||||||||
Spouse | Frances Yao | ||||||||
Awards | Pólya Prize (SIAM) (1987) Knuth Prize (1996) Turing Award (2000) Kyoto Prize (2021) | ||||||||
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Fields | Computer science | ||||||||
Institutions | Stanford University University of California, Berkeley Princeton University Tsinghua University Chinese University of Hong Kong | ||||||||
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Chinese | 姚期智 | ||||||||
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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.[1][2][3][4]