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Andrew Yao became a Professor in the Center for Advanced Study and Director of the Institute for Theoretical Computer Science at Tsinghua University, Beijing, in 2004. Since 2005 he has also been Distinguished Professor-at-Large of the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

Andrew Chi-Chih Yao, Chinese American computer scientist and winner of the 2000 A.M. Turing Award, the highest honour in computer science, for his “fundamental contributions to the theory of computation [computational complexity], including the complexity-based theory of pseudorandom number.

Visiting Scientist Website Andrew Chi-Chih Yao received a BS in Physics from National Taiwan University, a PhD in Physics from Harvard University, and a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Illinois. His research interests include analysis of algorithms, computational complexity, cryptography and quantum computing.

姚期智 / Andrew Chi-Chih Yao Dean, Professor Research Interests : Algorithms, Cryptography, Quantum Computing, Artificial Intelligence Email : Office : RM 1-204, FIT Building, Tsinghua University,...

One of the field’s most influential figures is Andrew Chi-Chih Yao, whose education and professional life have straddled the world’s two biggest economies. China-born and Harvard-trained, Yao...

Andrew Chi-Chih Yao has constructed innovative theoretical models for computation and communication, creating trends in modern computational theory that have revolutionized computational theory from a communications perspective. Further afield, Yao’s research has influenced computer science in multiple fields, including security, privacy ...

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.

As one of the early pioneers in this field, Turing Award laureate Andrew Chi-Chih Yao made a seminal contribution in developing the theoretical basis for quantum computation in 1993. Since 2011, he has served as the founding director of Tsinghua University's Center for Quantum Information (CQI), which aims to become a world-class research ...