Andrew Yao
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Gender | Male |
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Age | 77 |
Date of birth | December 24,1946 |
Zodiac sign | Capricorn |
Born | Shanghai |
China | |
Spouse | Frances Yao |
Chinese | 姚期智 |
Nationality | American |
Chinese | |
Awards | Turing Award |
Knuth Prize | |
Guggenheim Fellowship for Natural Sciences, US & Canada | |
George Pólya Prize in Applied Combinatorics | |
Education | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign |
Academic advisor | Chung Laung Liu |
Notable student | Joan Feigenbaum |
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ID | 674106 |
Andrew Yao Life story
Andrew Chi-Chih Yao is a Chinese computer scientist and computational theorist. He is currently a professor and the dean of Institute for Interdisciplinary Information Sciences at Tsinghua University. Yao used the minimax theorem to prove what is now known as Yao's Principle.