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Andrew Yao
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Andrew Chi-Chih Yao | |||||||||
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| 姚期智 | |||||||||
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| Born | December 24, 1946 | ||||||||
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| Alma mater | National Taiwan University (BS) Harvard University (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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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.
After graduating from National Taiwan University, Yao earned his first Ph.D. from Harvard University and then a second Ph.D. from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
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]
- ^ "Quarterly Publication of Individuals, Who Have Chosen To Expatriate, as Required by Section 6039G". Federal Register. 2015-10-27. Retrieved 22 February 2017.
- ^ "杨振宁、姚期智正式转为中国科学院院士". Xinhua News.
- ^ "Scientists drop U.S. citizenship", Science, 355 (6328): 891, March 3, 2017, doi:10.1126/science.355.6328.890, PMID 28254889
- ^ McLaughlin, Kathleen (24 February 2017). "Two top Chinese-American scientists have dropped their U.S. citizenship". Science. doi:10.1126/science.aal0823.
CAS released a statement confirming the news but offered no further explanation as to why the two had given up their U.S. citizenship.
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