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Andrew Chi-Chih Yao

Also Known As 姚期智 (Yáo Qīzhì)
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Andrew Chi-Chih Yao is a Chinese computer scientist, theoretical physicist and computational theorist, a professor and dean of the Institute for Interdisciplinary Information Sciences at Tsinghua University. He earned a doctorate in physics from Harvard University in 1972 and a second doctorate in computer science from the University of Illinois in 1975, later taught at MIT, Stanford and Berkeley, and won the 2000 ACM Turing Award.

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Birth Year
1946 1
Birth Date
1946-12-24 1
Nationality
Chinese 1
Held United States citizenship as a naturalized citizen for many years while working in the U.S.; in 2015, together with Yang Chen-Ning, renounced U.S. citizenship and became an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
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    Andrew Chi-Chih Yao (Chinese: 姚期智; pinyin: Yáo Qīzhì; born December 24, 1946) is a Chinese computer scientist, theoretical physicist, and computational theorist.
  • Article body, third paragraph
    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.
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