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Jerry Yang is a male American entrepreneur, computer scientist, businessperson, and art collector. Born in Taipei on November 6, 1968, he is a citizen of the United States and resides in Los Altos Hills. He is of Taiwanese American and Taiwanese ethnic descent. Yang attended Stanford University and serves on the board of directors. His notable work includes Yahoo, and he is characterized as a billionaire with a net worth of 1,800,000,000.
Yang has authored the book *All In*. His academic and professional output includes 162 works, which have been cited 5,548 times, resulting in an h-index of 37. His research concepts span Chemistry, Biophysics, Biology, Biochemistry, and Organic chemistry. Additionally, Crossref lists five works associated with him.
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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 1
Top works
- All In
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 20
- Total plays
- 61
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Academic profile · OpenAlex
- Works
- 162
- Cited by
- 5,548
Research areas
Most cited works
- Controlling protein translocation through nanopores with bio-inspired fluid walls2011 · 662 cit
- An electric-eel-inspired soft power source from stacked hydrogels2017 · 569 cit
- Applications of biological pores in nanomedicine, sensing, and nanoelectronics2010 · 327 cit
- Catalytic Oxidations of Steroid Substrates by Artificial Cytochrome P-450 Enzymes2002 · 186 cit
- Redox Properties of Cytochrome<i>c</i>Adsorbed on Self-Assembled Monolayers: A Probe for Protein Conformation and Orientation2002 · 183 cit
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Development of the Colle-Salvetti correlation-energy formula into a functional of the electron density
· 1988 · cited 95,697x
- featureCounts: an efficient general purpose program for assigning sequence reads to genomic features
· 2013 · cited 26,461x
- A Novel Coronavirus from Patients with Pneumonia in China, 2019
· 2020 · cited 22,141x
- SSD: Single Shot MultiBox Detector
· 2016 · cited 21,777x
- Clinical Characteristics of Coronavirus Disease 2019 in China
· 2020 · cited 21,670x
via Crossref · CC0
Key facts
- Born
- Yang Chih-Yuan , ( 1968-11-06 ) November 6, 1968 (age 57) , Taipei , Taiwan
- Education
- Stanford University ( BS , MS )
- Occupations
- Founding Partner, AME Cloud Ventures
- Spouse
- Akiko Yamazaki
- Relatives
- Chih-Kong Ken Yang (brother)
- Traditional chinese
- 楊 致 遠
- Simplified chinese
- 杨 致 远
- Hanyu pinyin
- Yáng Zhìyuǎn
- Hokkien poj
- iông tì oán
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Jerry Chih-Yuan Yang (Chinese: 楊致遠; pinyin: Yáng Zhìyuǎn; born Yang Chih-Yuan; November 6, 1968) is a Taiwanese-born American billionaire computer programmer, internet entrepreneur, and venture capitalist. He is the co-founder and former CEO of Yahoo! Inc. and founding partner of AME Cloud Ventures. As of May 2025, Yang has a net worth of $3.1 billion.
Early life and education
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Jerry Yang” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
Gallery (2)
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