Andrew Yao

Andrew Chi-Chih Yao 姚期智
Born	December 24, 1946 Shanghai, China
Residence	Beijing
Citizenship	United States Taiwan
Fields	Computer science
Institutions	Stanford University Princeton University Tsinghua University Chinese University of Hong Kong
Alma mater	National Taiwan University (BS) Harvard University (AM, PhD) University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign (PhD)
Known for	Yao's Principle
Notable awards	Pólya Prize (SIAM) (1987) Knuth Prize (1996) Turing Award (2000)

Andrew Yao
Chinese	姚期智
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Yáo Qīzhì Tongyong Pinyin Yáo Cijhìh Wade–Giles Yao^2 Chi^1ch'ih^4 Gwoyeu Romatzyh Yau Chijyh Southern Min Hokkien POJ Lâu Kî-tì

Andrew Chi-Chih Yao (Chinese: 姚期智; pinyin: Yáo Qīzhì) is a China-born Taiwanese-American 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.

Early life

Yao was born in Shanghai, China. He completed his undergraduate education in physics at the National Taiwan University, before completing a Doctor of Philosophy in physics at Harvard University in 1972, and then a second PhD in computer science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1975.

Academic career

From 1982 to 1986, he was a full professor at Stanford University. From 1986 to 2004, he was the William and Edna Macaleer Professor of Engineering and Applied Science at Princeton University, where he continued to work on algorithms and complexity. In 2004, he became a Professor of the Center for Advanced Study, Tsinghua University (CASTU) and the Director of the Institute for Theoretical Computer Science (ITCS), Tsinghua University in Beijing. Since 2010, he has served as the Dean of Institute for Interdisciplinary Information Sciences (IIIS) in Tsinghua University. He is also the Distinguished Professor-at-Large in the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

Awards

In 1996 he was awarded the Knuth Prize. He received the Turing Award, the most prestigious award in computer science, in 2000, "in recognition of his fundamental contributions to the theory of computation, including the complexity-based theory of pseudorandom number generation, cryptography, and communication complexity".

He is a member of U.S. National Academy of Sciences, a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, a fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery,^[1] and a foreign member of Chinese Academy of Sciences. His wife, Frances Yao, is also a well-known theoretical computer scientist.

See also

• Yao's principle
• Dolev-Yao model
• Important publications in cryptography
• Yao's test
• Yao's Millionaires' Problem
• Yao graph

References

1. "ACM Fellows–1995". acm.org. Retrieved 10 March 2015.

External links

• Andrew Yao(Chinese) at CASTU
• Andrew Yao at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
• Andrew Yao's publications indexed by the DBLP Bibliography Server at the University of Trier