Andrew Yao
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Andrew Chi-Chih Yao | |
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| 姚期智 | |
China | |
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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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Hanyu Pinyin | Yáo Qīzhì |
| Wade–Giles | Yao2 Ch'i1chih4 |
Andrew Chi-Chih Yao (
Yao's Principle
.
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]
Early life and education
Yao was born in
University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign
in 1975.
Academic career
Yao was an assistant professor at
Conference on Innovations in Theoretical Computer Science (ITCS). Yao is also the Distinguished Professor-at-Large in the Chinese University of Hong Kong.[8]
Awards
In 1996, Yao was awarded the
pseudorandom number generation, cryptography, and communication complexity".[5] In 2021, Yao received the Kyoto Prize in Advanced Technology.[9]
Yao 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,[10] and an academician of Chinese Academy of Sciences. His wife, Frances Yao
, is also a theoretical computer scientist.
See also
- Yao's principle
- Dolev-Yao model
- Important publications in cryptography
- Yao's test
- Yao's Millionaires' Problem
- Yao graph
- Garbled circuit
References
- ^ "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.
- PMID 28254889
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CAS released a statement confirming the news but offered no further explanation as to why the two had given up their U.S. citizenship.
- ^ a b "Andrew C Yao – A.M. Turing Award Winner". amturing.acm.org. Retrieved 2016-06-12.
- ^ "YaoTree". infolab.stanford.edu. Retrieved 2016-06-12.
- ^ "Andrew Yao". www.cs.princeton.edu. Archived from the original on 2016-08-08. Retrieved 2016-06-12.
- ^ "ITCSC People". www.itcsc.cuhk.edu.hk. Archived from the original on 2016-10-08. Retrieved 2016-06-12.
- ^ Kyoto Prize 2021
- ^ "ACM Fellows–1995". acm.org. Retrieved 10 March 2015.
External links
- Andrew Yao(in Chinese) at CASTU
- Andrew Yao at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- Andrew Chi-Chih Yao at DBLP Bibliography Server
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