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Andrew Yao
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computer scientist and computational theorist
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Andrew Yao is a computer scientist and university teacher, born on 24 December 1946 in Shanghai. He holds citizenship of China, the United States and Taiwan, and is the spouse of Frances Yao. He was educated at Harvard University, the National Taiwan University, the University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign and the Taipei Municipal Chien Kuo High School, and has worked at Princeton University, the University of California, Berkeley, Stanford University and Tsinghua University.
His notable work is Yao's principle, in the fields of informatics and computer science. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Academia Sinica and the Association for Computing Machinery. He received the Guggenheim Fellowship, the Turing Award and the Knuth Prize, and is a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery.
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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 2
Top works
- Operations management
- Probabilistic Algorithms (Progress in Computer Science, Vol 8)
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Andrew
- Family name
- Yao
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Taiwan
- Place of birth
- Shanghai
- Spouse
- Frances Yao
- Occupation
- university teacher
- Educated at
- Taipei Municipal Chien Kuo High School
- Notable work
- Yao's principle
- Field of work
- computer science
- Official website
- iiis.tsinghua.edu.cn/yao
- Image
- Andrew Yao.jpg
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- Commons category
- Andrew Yao
- date of birth
- 1946-12-24
- member of
- National Academy of Sciences
- Erdős number
- 2
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- WikiProject Mathematics
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