Andrew Yao
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| Gender | Male |
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| Age | 78 |
| Date of birth | December 24,1946 |
| Zodiac sign | Capricorn |
| Born | Shanghai |
| China | |
| Spouse | Frances Yao |
| Chinese | 姚期智 |
| Nationality | American |
| Chinese | |
| Awards | Turing Award |
| Knuth Prize | |
| Guggenheim Fellowship for Natural Sciences, US & Canada | |
| George Pólya Prize in Applied Combinatorics | |
| Education | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign |
| Academic advisor | Chung Laung Liu |
| Notable student | Joan Feigenbaum |
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| ID | 674106 |
Andrew Yao Life story
Andrew Chi-Chih Yao is a Chinese computer scientist and computational theorist. He is currently a professor and the dean of Institute for Interdisciplinary Information Sciences at Tsinghua University. Yao used the minimax theorem to prove what is now known as Yao's Principle.